Precal+Syllabus

=__**Advanced Algebra and Trigonometry **__=

August
 * Prerequisites/Review (P1 – P4)

September
 * Prerequisites/Review (P5)
 * Functions (1.1-1.2a)
 * Sequence/Series and Probability (9.1-9.7)*

October
 * Statistics (Appendix B)*
 * Functions (1.2b – 1.5)
 * Polynomials and Rational Functions (2.1-2.2)

November
 * Polynomials and Rational Functions (2.3-2.7)
 * Exponential and Logarithmic Functions (3.1-3.3)

December
 * Exponential and Logarithmic Functions (3.4-3.5)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Introduction to Trigonometry (4.1)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Review for First Semester Exam
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">First Semester Exam

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">NOTE: All of the first semester material is a review of Algebra I and II. A majority of the material second semester will be brand new. Please prepare mentally for this change and be prepared to spend more of your time mastering this material.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">January
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Trigonometric Functions (4.2-4.8)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">February
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Analytic Trigonometry (5.1-5.5)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Additional Topics in Trigonometry (6.1)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">March
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Additional Topics in Trigonometry (6.2)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">[Note: 6.3-6.5 (Vectors in Two Dimensions) will be done with Ch. 11]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Systems of Equations and Inequalities (7.1-7.5)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Matrices and Determinants (8.1-8.5)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">April
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">(Note: Chapter 9 was done in September)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Conic Sections and Polar Coordinates (10.1-10.7)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Vectors in Two and Three Dimensions (6.3-6.5/11.1-11.3)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">May > > <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">*The SAT and PSAT contain questions on sequence, series, probability, and statistics. As most of you will be taking the PSAT and/or SAT at the beginning of October, we cover this material earlier in the year than we would naturally reach it in the text book to ensure you remember it for these tests <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Review for Second Semester Exams
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Second Semester Exams
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Limits and Introduction to Calculus (12.1-12.4) (Junior only -->