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AP STATISTICS
Level: V- AP Credits: 05
Advanced Placement Statistics is designed to be the secondary school equivalent, to a one semester,
introductory, non-Calculus based college course in statistics. This course is designed to introduce students to the
major concepts and tools for collecting, analyzing, and drawing conclusions from data. It contains four themes:
exploring data, planning a study, anticipating patterns, and statistical inference. Other concepts include:
descriptive statistics, presentation of data, averages, and measures of variation, skewness, binomial and normal
distributions, confidence intervals, testing hypotheses, linear regression and correlation. Students are expected to
take the Advanced Placement Statistics exam in May.
Pre-requisite: A grade of 85 or higher in Algebra II Honors or a grade of 90 or higher in Algebra II.

CONCEPTS OF MATHEMATICS
Level: III – Advanced Credits: 05
This course is designed for college-bound seniors and will assist in preparing students for the Accuplacer
Exam. Topics include number sequences, functions, algebraic treatment for polygons, quadratic equations, conics,
probability, statistics and truth tables and Venn diagrams. Recommended for college bound students not enrolled
in calculus.
Pre-requisite: Algebra II

CONSUMER MATH
Level: II – College Preparatory Credits: 05
This is a course designed for the student who has a solid mastery of basic computational skills and desires to
become proficient in managing his personal finances. The content deals with the fundamental operations and
principles that a student will face in real world situations. Predictions, insurance, consumer purchasing, banking,
compound interest, taxes, and problem solving will be covered in this course. This course meets the state
graduation requirement for financial literacy.
Pre-requisite: Two years of mathematics

Level: II – College Preparatory Credits: 2.5
This is a course designed for the student who has a solid mastery of basic computational skills and desires to
become proficient in managing his personal finances. The content deals with the fundamental operations and
principles that a student will face in real world situations. Predictions, insurance, consumer purchasing, banking,
compound interest, taxes, and problem solving will be covered in this course. This semester course meets the
state graduation requirement for financial literacy.
Pre-requisite: Two years of mathematics

GEOMETRY
Level: IV – Honors Credits: 05
This course aims to teach concepts related to geometrical principles. Deductive and inductive reasoning,
mathematical proof, area and volume, the coordinate plane, trigonometry and the reinforcement of the basic
algebraic skills are emphasized. Topics are treated in greater depth and at an accelerated pace than Advanced
Geometry. This course is essential for those students who plan to take additional honors mathematics courses in
the future.
Pre-requisite: A grade of 85 or above in Algebra I- Honors or a grade of 90 or above in Algebra I Note: This
course can be taken concurrently with Algebra II - Honors with a teacher recommendation.