ADVANCED PLACEMENT PRECALCULUS

This year course fosters the development of a deep conceptual understanding of functions. Students acquire and apply mathematical tools in real-world modeling situations. Modeling, a central instructional theme for this course, helps students come to a deeper understanding of each function type to include polynomial, rational, exponential, and logarithmic functions. Students develop and hone symbolic manipulation skills, solve equations, and manipulate expressions and in turn the skills learned in this course are widely applicable in a variety of future courses that involve quantitative reasoning.