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Course Name: Geometry Support Available to: 10th grade
Type of Course: Elective Course Prerequisites: Foundations of Algebra / Algebra( 70 %- 79 %)
Description: This course is aimed at students who have low standardized test performance and / or have demonstrated significant difficulties in Algebra and other previous mathematics courses. This course will provide many opportunities to revisit and expand the understanding of geometric and algebraic concepts, will employ diagnostic means to offer focused interventions, and will incorporate varied instructional strategies to prepare students for required high school mathematics courses. This course will be taken in the Fall and will replace an elective spot, and Geometry will be taken in the Spring.
Course Name: Geometry Type of Course: Core Course
Available to: 9th and 10th grade
Prerequisites: MS-HS Algebra( 70 %- 84 %), Foundations of Algebra / Algebra( 80 %+), Algebra( 70 %- 89 %), Honors Algebra( 70 %- 84 %), OR Geometry Support( 70 %+)
Description: This is the second course in a sequence of three high school courses designed to ensure career and college readiness. This course is intended to enhance students’ geometric, algebraic, graphical, and probabilistic reasoning skills. Students will apply their algebraic and geometric reasoning skills to make sense of problems involving geometry, trigonometry, algebra, probability, and statistics. Students will continue to enhance their analytical geometry and reasoning skills when analyzing and applying a deep understanding of polynomial expressions, proofs, constructions, rigid motions and transformations, similarity, congruence, circles, right triangle trigonometry, geometric measurement, and conditional probability.
Course Name: Honors Geometry
Available to: 9th and 10th grade
Type of Course: Core Course
Prerequisites: MS-HS Algebra( 85 %+), Algebra( 90 %+), OR Honors Algebra( 85 %+)
Description: This is an accelerated college prep course that covers all the standards included in the onlevel Geometry course with a few additional standards and explores the concepts at a deeper level. This course is designed to prepare students for Advanced Placement mathematics courses. Students earn an additional 0.5 quality point towards their GPA for this course.
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