WHEELER HIGH SCHOOL ' S
COURSE CATALOG
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Course Name : Advanced Algebra
Available to : 10th and 11th grade
Type of Course : Core Course
Prerequisites : Geometry ( 70 % - 84 %), Geometry ( 85 %+) AND less than 92 % on Algebra EOC , OR H . Geometry ( 70 % - 84 %)
Description : This is the third course in a sequence of three high school courses designed to ensure career and college readiness . Students will learn how to use matrices and linear programming to represent data and to solve contextually relevant problems . Students will strengthen their geometric and spatial reasoning skills as they learn how to solve trigonometric equations using the unit circle . In previous courses , students studied how to use linear and quadratic functions to model real-life phenomena . Students will further develop their functional and graphical reasoning as they explore and analyze structures and patterns for exponential , logarithmic , radical , polynomial , rational expressions , equations , and functions to further understand the world around them .
Course Name : Honors Advanced Algebra Type of Course : Core Course
Available to : 10th and 11th grade
Prerequisites : Algebra ( 90 %+) AND Geometry ( 85 %+) AND 92 %+ on Algebra EOC OR H . Geometry ( 85 %+)
Description : This is an accelerated college prep course that covers all of the standards included in the onlevel Advanced Algebra 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 .
Course Name : Precalculus
Available to : 10th - 12th grade
Type of Course : Core Course
Prerequisites : Advanced Algebra ( 85 % - 94 %) AND Geometry ( 80 %+) OR H . Advanced Algebra ( 70 % - 84 %)
Description : This course is a fourth math credit option that provides students with the opportunity to develop a deeper understanding of concepts in Algebra that are critical to the study of Calculus as well as an understanding of trigonometry and its applications . The course includes the study and analysis of piecewise and rational functions ; limits and continuity as related to piecewise and rational functions ; sequences and series with the incorporation of convergence and divergence ; conic sections as implicitly defined curves ; the six trigonometric functions and their inverses ; applications of trigonometry such as modeling periodic phenomena , modeling with vectors and parametric equations , solving oblique triangles in contextual situations , graphing in the Polar Plane ; solutions of trigonometric equations in a variety of contexts ; and the manipulation and application of trigonometric identities .
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