This course is vocabulary driven and expands on your child's current understanding of algebra to evaluate, measure, and explain real-life problems building a higher level of understanding. This course is a required course for graduation and finishes with the Common Core exam in June.
Topics that will be covered this year:
Measurement; Constructions; Transformations; Proofs; Angle Relationships; Quadrilaterals; Right Triangles; Similar Figures; Radicals; Coordinate Geometry; Non-Coordinate Circles; Trigonometry; Surface Area & Volume
Expectations: High school students are expected to independently use additional resources to ensure their understanding of the content.
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Academic Goals (Taken from Standards for Mathematical Practice)
1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
4. Model with mathematics.
5. Use appropriate tools strategically.
6. Attend to precision.
7. Look for and make use of structure.
8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.
Homework: Students will be expected to hand in homework daily and weekly.
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