IMP 5

Syllabus for Integrated Math Program (IMP 5)

CVHS 2019-20

Instructor: Karmen Smith

  • Email address: ksmith1@dcsdk12.org
  • Website:https://sites.google.com/dcsdk12.org/ksmithmath/home
  • Office Location: BHS Academy 9025
  • Classroom: Mobile 7A

The Mathematics Department at CVHS believes in a culture that values: risk taking, growth mindset, collaboration and respect. Students learn and demonstrate competency of the Standards of Mathematical Practice through meaningful problems.

“Education is not the learning of facts but the training of the mind to think”- Albert Einstein

Integrated Math 5 will continue incorporating problems that require ideas from the many branches of mathematics, including algebra, geometry, graphing, probability, statistics, trigonometry, and programming code. This class will help students to develop themselves as mathematicians, by allowing them to discover and communicate the underlying ideas that shape mathematics. Students will continue to explore the following Habits of a Mathematical Learner: Go CATS (Grit, Curiosity, Awareness, Take a Risk, Social Learning)

There are three units we will be exploring this semester:

  • Pennant Fever (probability) - Probability models (area model, tree diagram…); Expected value; Binomial distributions; Multiplication principle; Combinations; Permutations
  • World of Functions (algebra II) - Rule of 4 (Graph, Equation,Table, Scenario)
    • polynomial functions - linear, quadratic, and cubic functions
    • Non-polynomial functions - exponential, trigonometric, absolute value, and step functions
    • Inverse functions; Composition of functions; Transformation of functions; End behavior of functions; Asymptotes of functions
  • As the Cube Turns (coordinate geometry, trigonometry, programming code) - Matrix transformations; 3D projections on 2D surfaces; Trigonometric identities (even-odd, double-angle); Basic programming code (delay and repetition loops, variable, translation, and matrix storage); Programming animation

All units will require the use of a Graphing Calculator: TI-84 is highly recommended.

Grading Criteria

  • In-class/Projects (20%)
  • Habits of a Mathematical Learner (10%)
  • Homework (15%)
  • Exit Tickets (20%)
  • Quizzes/Tests (35%)

Attendance/Tardy Policy

Students with excused absences are responsible for contacting me upon return to school in order to collect work missed during their absence. Students are strongly encouraged to use my website and email to obtain assignments while absent.

1st tardy – conference with student

2nd tardy – conference with student, warn student of lunch detention if late for 3rd time, and notify parent

3rd and subsequent tardies - student may be assigned a lunch detention, notify dean, and notify parent

Late work Policy

Late work for a unit will not be accepted once a unit exam has been given. It is the student's responsibility to make sure he or she makes up all work due to an absence. In the event a student must miss an exam with an excused absence, that student will have one week from the day he or she returns to make up the exam. If a student misses an exam due to an unexcused absence, the exam must be made up immediately upon return to class. See the student handbook on the CVHS website for the school's policy on turning in work after absences and missed finals.