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Course Title: Pre-Calculus Credit Value: 1.0

Course Number: 102413 Term(s) Offered: Full Year

Prerequisite(s): Completion of Algebra 2 with an 80% or higher or Open to Grades: 10, 11, 12

completion of Honors Algebra 2 with a 70% or higher or

teacher recommendation. Completion of Geometry

presumed.

Description: Pre-Calculus is a course with college-level algebra and trigonometry that is designed to prepare students for

the study of calculus. Students enrolled in this course generally intend on taking a calculus course in high school (Business

Calculus, College in High School Business Calculus). The year begins with a study of trigonometry, including right

triangles, graphing periodic functions, modeling periodic phenomena, proving identities, and solving trigonometric

equations. The analysis of conic sections from a coordinate point of view is also studied. The year concludes with a study

of functions and their applications designed to increase students’ knowledge of algebra.

Course Title: Honors Pre-Calculus Credit Value: 1.0

Course Number: 102422 Term(s) Offered: Full Year

Prerequisite(s): Completion of Algebra 2 with a 90% or higher or completion Open to Grades: 10, 11, 12

of Honors Algebra 2 with an 80% or higher or teacher

recommendation. Completion of Geometry presumed.

Description: Honors Pre-Calculus includes the study of Trigonometry including right triangle trigonometry, graphing

periodic functions, modeling periodic phenomena, proving identities, and solving trigonometric equations. The course

continues with regression, analytical geometry, modeling with various functions and proof. This rigorous course is

designed for the advanced mathematics student intent on enrolling in an AP level mathematics course the following year

(either AP Calculus AB, AP Calculus BC or AP Statistics), The curriculum for this honors course is distinguished by a

difference in rigor and quality of work, compacting and extending concepts studied in the Pre-Calculus course.

Course Title: Trigonometry & Analytical Geometry Credit Value: 1.0

Course Number: 102412 Term(s) Offered: Full Year

Prerequisite(s): Completion of Geometry and Algebra 2 Open to Grades: 11, 12

Description: Trigonometry is a branch of mathematics that studies relationships between the sides and angles of

triangles. This level of trigonometry is for students who are not intending to take a calculus course in high school. The

year begins with a study of trigonometry, including both right and non-right triangles, applying the trigonometric ratios,

graphing the trigonometric functions and describing the effects transformations have on these functions. Students will also

solve trigonometric equations, algebraically and graphically, using inverse functions. Describing the properties of simple

harmonic motion and modeling periodic phenomena are also studied. Students prove trigonometric identities. The year

concludes with analyzing conic sections and other geometric curves from a coordinate point of view. Algebra concepts will

be reviewed as needed.

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