Pre-Calculus & Trigonometry
Lower Dauphin School District
Curriculum Guide
| Course Title: Pre-calculus & Trigonometry |
Subject: Mathematics |
Grade Level(s): 10-12 |
Synopsis of Curriculum
This course in advanced mathematics and trigonometry is for students who intend to take some level of college mathematics, including calculus, in the future. It extends prior experience with many topics of algebra and emphasizes the use of a graphing calculator. This course will address the following topics: polynomial functions and their inverses, complex numbers, logarithmic and exponential functions and their applications, trigonometric functions, trigonometric identities, application of trigonometry and selected topics in probability and statistics. Students are required to have a graphing calculator for this course.
Units of Study Titles
Unit 2: Transformations of Functions
Unit 3: Modeling and Variation
Unit 6: Exponential and Logarithmic Functions
Unit 8: Trigonometric Functions and their graphs