• ADVANCED ALGEBRA: CONCEPTS AND CONNECTIONS

     

    Dr. Alicia O’Reilly, Teacher

    Email address: aoreilly@gsiccharter.education

     

    Course Description and Goals:

    Advanced Algebra: Concepts and Connections is the culminating course in a sequence of three high school courses designed to ensure career and college readiness. It is designed to prepare students for fourth course options relevant to their career pursuits. 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 Geometry Patterning and Spatial Reasoning.

    This course is designed as the third course in a three-course series. This course enhances 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.

     

    Course Outline: Advanced Algebra: Concepts and Connections is divided into several different units.

     

    First Semester

     

    Unit 0: Think Like a Mathematician                                           

    Unit 1: Descriptive and Inferential Statistics                               

    Unit 2: Exponential and Logarithmic Functions                           

    Unit 3: Investigating Radical Functions                                     

     

    Second Semester

    Unit 4: Modeling Polynomial Functions                                      

    Unit 5: Investigating Linear Algebra and Matrices                        

    Unit 6: Trigonometry and the Unit Circle                                   

    Unit 7: Exploring Rational Functions                                         

    Unit 8: Culminating Capstone Unit

     

    NOTE: Each unique unit is a sequence which builds upon the previous unit.

     

     

    Materials: you will need a three-ring notebook (at least 1½ inches), notebook paper, pencils (colored and #2), Chromebook, ruler.

     

     

     Quarter Grades:

    • Tests                                                     40%
    • Quizzes                                                  25%
    • Daily Grades                                            20%
    • Homework & Miscellaneous Activities           15%

     

    Each Quarter is 20% of your overall average for the year. A final exam will count 20%.

     

    EXPECTATIONS:

    Be on time. Enter the classroom and get started on the daily warm-up. Tardies will be recorded in Infinite Campus. Do not leave without permission.

    Be prepared. Have all your materials and assignments ready upon entering the room.

    Be positive and polite. Ask questions and listen when others ask

    Be respectful to me, your classmates, yourself.

    Be a good example. Know the rules and follow school rules. NO PHONES or SMARTWATCHES.

     

    MAKE-UP WORK: Students have 5 days from the date of return to complete all missed assignments due to an excused absence. Make-up tests and quizzes must be taken after school. Check Google Classroom for assignments. Check grades in Infinite Campus often.