Honors Advanced Math
2016-2017 Course Syllabus
Honors Advanced Math
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Teacher: Mrs. Aguilar |
Textbook: Larson’s Pre-Calculus with Limits |
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Period: 5 |
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Course Description
In alignment with the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), students will work through the Larson's curriculum titled Pre-Calculus with Limits. Students will work through units of study comprised of problem-based lessons, collaborative student work, homework quizzes, student presentations, team tests, individual tests, checkpoint quizzes and homework assignments. All homework assignments will contain a review and preview of skills that students see throughout the course. In addition to covering all of the key concepts found in traditional trigonometry, pre-calculus, or math analysis courses, this course emphasizes several big ideas that form a foundation for calculus and other college mathematics curricula.
The key ideas presented are:
- Transformations of functions
- Periodic functions and their graphs
- Area under a curve as a foundation for integration
- Inverses, exponentials, and logarithmic equations and applications
- Limits to infinity and at a point
- Properties of functions including continuity, increasing vs. decreasing, and concavity
- Average rate of change and instantaneous rates of change as a foundation for derivatives
- Other graphical systems including polar and parametric
- Applications of vectors and trigonometric functions
- Algebraic fluency and simplification techniques
- Modeling using a variety of functions
Along with mastering the content by the end of the course, students will be able to make sense of problems & persevere in solving them, reason abstractly and quantitatively, construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others, model with mathematics, use appropriate tools strategically, attend to precision, look for and make use of structure, & look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.
Grading Policy
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Assessments (HW Quizzes, Projects, Presentations, Team Tests, Individual Tests, Checkpoint Quizzes)
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80 % |
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Assignments (Homework, Classwork, Warm-ups & Portfolio/Notebook) |
20% |
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90%-100% |
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80%-89.9% |
B |
LATE WORK WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.
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68%-79.9% |
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60%-67.9% |
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0%-59.9% |
FAIL |
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