CLASSROOM GUIDELINES Pre-calculus/Calculus Mr



Syllabus and Course Information HONORS PRE-CALCULUS Mr. Maag e-mail: maag.mo@chandler.k12.az.us phone 883-5074

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EXPECTATIONS:

1. Pen or pencil, notebook and/or binder and graphing calculator (TI-83 or TI-84).

2. Be respectful of teacher, other students and the learning environment:

3. Please: No food or drink, gum, ipods, phones

Dual credit/enrollment: Chandler-Gilbert Community College offers high school students dual credit. If a student maintains at least a C average for both semesters and pays the tuition, they will receive college credit for the course which may transfer to a University as math credit or an elective. Contact the individual schools for more details.

CGCC labels Pre Calculus as MAT 187 and is 5 credit hours.

ATTENDANCE:

1. Work for excused absences is due the next class meeting.

2. No credit is given for missed work due to unexcused absences. .

3. Tardies: 1st & 2nd tardy: Zero on Warm-up/Homework

> 2 tardies: referral to grade level administrator.

Online Text/Textbook:

Students will be using an online text with embedded videos and interactive applets, online assignments and the ability to download PDFs of the written homework. Students will be issued accounts in order to access the text.

Homework/Handouts

1. Checked at discretion of the teacher, should be kept and organized in a notebook, binder or folder.

2. Homework/daily work will be worth from 0 to 2 points per check.

3. Homework also assigned and graded using Webworks, an on-line system. These assignments will count the same as a quiz grade.

Address:

Username: your Last name first initial (Kentc)

Password: student ID number

Grades:

1. The scale is 90-80-70-60. The semester grade is figured on a 40-40-20 scale.

2. Chapter tests will be worth up to 100 points, Quizzes are 10-50 points, and webwork is 10-100 points.

3. Chapter tests are usually taken from homework, webwork and review.

4. Quarter grades are approximately 85% assessment and 15% homework/daily work.

“Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration.” – Evan Esar

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Course Topics:

|Module 1 |Module 2 |

|Representational Equivalence |Quantities & Co-variation of Quantities |

|Evaluating Formulas |Introduction to Proportionality |

|Relating Quantities & Solving Equations |Proportionality of Quantities |

|Symbolic Operations |Changes in Quantities |

| |Constant Rate of Change & Linearity |

| |Exploring Average Speed |

| |Distance Formula & Equation of a Circle |

|Module 3 |Module 4 |

|The Box Problem |The Meaning of Exponents |

|Function Notation |Linear & Exponential Behavior |

|Using & Interpreting Function Notation |Growth & Decay Factors |

|Function Composition |Percent Change & Initial Value |

|Representing Composition of Functions |Rate of Change for Exponential Functions |

|Inverse Functions |Growth & Decay: Focus on Factors |

|Exploring the Difference Quotient |Connecting to Proportionality |

| |Average Rate of Change and e |

| |Growth & Decay Factors |

| |Compound Periods & Interest |

| |Focus on Formulas and Motivating e |

| |Exponential & Logarithmic Functions |

|Module 5 |Module 6 |

|The Bottle Problem |Rational Functions |

|Co-varying Distance & Time |Long-Run Behavior |

|Exploring Polynomial Functions | |

|Exploring Quadratic Functions | |

|Repeated Roots & Behavior Around Zeros | |

|Module 7 |Module 8 |

|Angle Measure |Right Triangle Trigonometry |

|Angle Measure in Context |Right Triangle Trigonometry Applications |

|Representing Circular Motion |Trigonometric Identities |

|Using Sine & Cosine Functions | |

|To Track Circular Motion | |

|In Applies Settings | |

|Transformations of the Sine Function | |

|Period, Amplitude & Formulas | |

|Unit Circle Trigonometry | |

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