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Course Description: Advanced Financial Algebra is a fourth-year mathematics course option designed for students who have successfully completed Advanced Algebra: Concepts and Connections. The course extends and deepens student understanding of algebra, statistics, and research design while introducing students to relevant financial and business applications. Students will create, apply, and interpret a wide variety of algebraic function-models to aid in real-world decision making. Statistical research and analysis will be used to determine the efficacy of model applications and further assist in exploring scenarios with financial implications. Financial contexts for these mathematical concepts will include business operations and optimization, tax considerations, insurance and risk management, banking services, budget creation, loan and credit analysis, investment strategies and retirement plans, stock market performance, real estate fundamentals, and automobile ownership. Prerequisites: This course is designed for students who have successfully completed Advanced Algebra: Concepts and Connections.
Course Description: AP Calculus AB Course – AP Central | College Board. A Texas Instruments TI-84+ graphing calculator or equivalent is required for this course.
Prerequisites: Pre-Calculus and 88 average in Core Math classes
Course Description: AP Calculus BC Course – AP Central | College Board. A Texas Instruments TI-84+ graphing calculator or equivalent is required for this course.
Prerequisites: AP Calculus AB and 88 average in Core Math classes
Course Description: AP Computer Science A – AP Central | College Board
Prerequisites: Geometry and 88 average in Core Math classes
Course Description: AP Computer Science Principles Course – AP Central | College Board
Prerequisites: Geometry and 88 average in Core Math classes
Course Description: AP Statistics Course – AP Central | College Board. A Texas Instruments TI-84+ graphing calculator or equivalent is required for this course
Prerequisites: Algebra II and 88 average in Core Math classes
Course Description: Algebra: Concepts and Connections (GMS Algebra I) is the first course in a sequence of three high school courses designed to ensure career and college readiness. Students will apply their algebraic and geometric reasoning skills to make sense of problems involving algebra, geometry, bivariate data, and statistics. This course focuses on algebraic, quantitative, geometric, graphical, and statistical reasoning. In this course, students will continue to enhance their algebraic reasoning skills when analyzing and applying a deep understanding of linear functions, sums and products of rational and irrational numbers, systems of linear inequalities, distance, midpoint, slope, area, perimeter, nonlinear equations and functions, quadratic expressions, equations and functions, exponential expressions, equations, and functions, and statistical reasoning. High school course content standards are listed by big ideas including Data and Statistical Reasoning, Probabilistic Reasoning, Functional and Graphical Reasoning, Patterning and Algebraic Reasoning, and Geometric and Spatial Reasoning Prerequisite: Kindergarten through 8th grade mathematics.
Course Description: The Co-Requisite Algebra SUPPORT course is designed to help students build a solid understanding of algebra concepts, which is critical for success in future mathematics courses, including geometry and advanced algebra. The algebra knowledge and skills addressed in this course are essential for post-secondary success as well as for producing a skilled workforce for scientific and technical careers. Algebra requires proficiency with multiple representations, including symbols, equations, and graphs, as well as the ability to reason logically, both of which play crucial roles in advanced mathematics courses. The focus of this course is to address learner variability by providing scaffolds and supports for students. This course is taken in conjunction with the Algebra: Concepts and Connections course, which is required for graduation. This course is available for any student needing additional support.
Course Description: "Advanced Algebra: Concepts & Connections (27.08310) is the third course in a sequence of courses designed to ensure career and college readiness. It is intended to prepare students for fourth mathematics course options relevant to their postsecondary pursuits. High school course content standards are listed by big idea, including Data and Statistical Reasoning, Probabilistic Reasoning, Functional and Graphical Reasoning, Patterning and Algebraic Reasoning, and Geometric and Spatial Reasoning. In Advanced Algebra: Concepts & Connections, students will continue to enhance their data and statistical reasoning skills as they learn specific ways to collect, critique, analyze, and interpret data. 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. In Advanced Algebra: Concepts and Connections, students will further develop their functional and graphical reasoning as they explore and analyze structures and patterns for exponential, logarithmic, radical, polynomial, and rational expressions, equations and functions to further understand the world around them. Prerequisite: This course is designed for students who have successfully completed Geometry: Concepts & Connections."
Course Description: College Readiness Mathematics Capstone Course (CRM) is a fourth mathematics course option for students who have completed Advanced Algebra: Concepts and Connections (or the equivalent). The course is designed to serve as a bridge for high school students into postsecondary opportunities. The course has been approved by the University System of Georgia as a fourth mathematics course beyond Advanced Algebra: Concepts and Connections for majors outside of mathematics, science, and engineering. The focus of this course is on key content and practice standards to ensure that students will be ready for postsecondary academic courses and career opportunities. The course will revisit and expand the understanding of content standards introduced in earlier mathematics courses and will emphasize numeracy, algebra and functions, geometry, and statistics in a variety of contexts. Instruction and assessment should include the appropriate use of manipulatives and technology. Mathematics concepts should be represented in multiple ways, such as concrete/pictorial, verbal/written, numeric/data-based, graphical, and symbolic. Concepts should be introduced and used, where appropriate, in the context of realistic experiences. The Standards for Mathematical Practice will provide the foundation for instruction and assessment. The content standards selected are essential for a variety of postsecondary opportunities. Students will be expected to complete a capstone project where they select one of the areas listed in the standard to identify a problem and use mathematical modeling to address it. Prerequisite: This course is designed for students who have successfully completed Advanced Algebra: Concepts and Connections (or the equivalent).
Course Description: Foundations of Algebra is a first year high school mathematics course option for students who have completed mathematics in grades 6 – 8 yet will need substantial support to bolster success in high school mathematics. It will provide many opportunities to revisit and expand the understanding of foundational algebra concepts, will employ diagnostic means to offer focused interventions, and will incorporate varied instructional strategies to prepare students for required high school mathematics courses by emphasizing both algebra and numeracy in a variety of contexts including number sense, proportional reasoning, quantitative reasoning with functions, and solving equations and inequalities.
Course Description: Geometry: Concepts and Connections is the second course in a sequence of three high school courses designed to ensure career and college readiness. This course is intended to enhance students’ geometric, algebraic, graphical, and probabilistic reasoning skills. Students will apply their algebraic and geometric reasoning skills to make sense of problems involving geometry, trigonometry, algebra, probability, and statistics. Students will continue to enhance their analytical geometry and reasoning skills when analyzing and applying a deep understanding of polynomial expressions, proofs, constructions, rigid motions and transformations, similarity, congruence, circles, right triangle trigonometry, geometric measurement, and conditional probability. High school course content standards are listed by big ideas including Data and Statistical Reasoning, Probabilistic Reasoning, Functional and Graphical Reasoning, Patterning and Algebraic Reasoning, and Geometric and Spatial Reasoning. Prerequisite: This course is designed for students who have successfully completed Algebra: Concepts & Connections.
Course Descriptions: See the GMS Geometry and the GMS Algebra II descriptions.
Some students who are currently enrolled in Algebra I now want to take AP Calculus BC before they graduate. Taking Algebra II and Geometry during the same school year is one way to do it.
Here is how it works:
When the schedules are initially distributed to the students in May, eligibility for Double Math will not yet be determined since we have to await the FINAL Algebra grades AND the scores from end-of-course tests. Once eligibility is determined, we will contact those who are eligible via email and expressed interest in Double Math to see if they would like to proceed with taking Double Math in 9th grade and, if so, what class they would like to drop from their schedule. WATCH YOUR EMAILS EVEN DURING THE SUMMER.
Criteria:
Students must:
1) Earn a "Distinguished" score on the Algebra I End-of-Course Test/Milestones/MAPP TEST (whichever is applicable), AND
2) Have an overall grade of 90 or higher in Algebra I.
Course Description: Precalculus is a fourth-year mathematics course option for students who have completed Advanced Algebra: Concepts and Connections (or the equivalent). The course is intended to provide students with opportunities to develop a deeper understanding of Algebraic concepts that are critical to the study of Calculus. Students will also deepen their understanding of trigonometry and its applications. Throughout the Precalculus course there should be a focus on notational fluency and the use of multiple representations. 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. Topics should be analyzed in multiple ways, including verbal and written, numerical, algebraic, and graphical presentations. Instruction and assessment should include the appropriate use of technology. Concepts should be introduced and investigated, where appropriate, in the context of realistic phenomena. Prerequisites: This course is designed for students who have successfully completed Advanced Algebra: Concepts and Connections.