Continuing with Trigonometry

Here is the syllabus for the rest of the unit. Remember, the course is called Advanced Algebra and Trigonometry so this is a big important unit. If you are struggling, ask for help. Don't get behind!

11/29 Trig Ratios in the Unit Circle Exploration p.41-44
12/01 Radians (another way to measure angles) p.45-48
12/02 Applications of Radians p.49-52
12/03 Sines and Cosines in Radians p.53-56

12/06 Angles and Radians Quiz
12/08 The London Eye (p.57-59), do problems p.60-63
12/09 More Practice p.64-68
12/10 Sinusoid Practice/problem 1-3 on p.69-70

12/13 Sinusoid Practice/problem 4-6 on p.70-71
12/15 Horizontal Shifts p.73-74
12/16 Sinusoid Quiz
12/17 Unit Review p.75-78

12/20 Unit Review cont. p.79-82
12/22 Trig Unit Test (or review activity)
12/23 Activity (or Test)

Unit 3 - Trigonometry

Since Trigonometry is part of the name of the course, you know that this unit is important. We start with ratios and move to periodic functions. What that last sentence means will become clear as we move through the material. This is a long unit with quizzes after each section and then a big test at the end.

Section 3.1 Right Triangle Trig
11/03 Right Triangles and the Pythagorean Theorem, Simplifying radicals pp.1 - 7
11/04 Sine, Cosine and Tangent Ratios, Word Problems pp.8 - 12
11/05 Converting and Solving for Angles, Word Problems pp.13 - 17
11/08 More Word Problems pp.18 - 20/problems 5 - 11
11/10 More Word Problems pp.20 - 23/problems 12 - 16, extra credit 17, 18
11/11 Veterans' Day - no school
11/12 Quiz of Right Triangle Trig

Section 3.2 Trigonometric Geometry
11/12 Area with Trig pp.24-27
11/15 Law of Sines pp.28 - 30
11/17 Law of Cosines pp.31 - 32
11/18 Summary pp.33 - 36
11/19 Quiz of Geometric Trig

Section 3.3 The Unit Circle
11/22 Unit Circle definition, angles p.37 - 40
11/24 Unit Circle Activity (Half Day: A C F H)
11/25 Thanksgiving

Transformations (Unit 2)

Transformation is a method of changing our basic functions. By approaching any function as a modified basic function, it is much easier to work with - we know what the graph looks like and what values are likely and/or valid.

This is a fairly quick unit. The dates below may be ambitious or they may be too slow. I will adjust as we go along. This is my proposal for right now.

10/15 Mini-Cooper Exploration pp.2-7

10/18 Check for Understanding pp.8-10
10/20 Single Transformations and Function Notation pp.11-16
10/21 Double Transformations and Practice pp.17-21
10/22 More Practice, Domain & Range transformations pp.22-26

10/25 Extra Practice pp.27-32
10/27 Computer Lab and Follow-up pp.33-38
10/28 Practice p.39-41
10/29 Unit Review p.42-26

11/01 Unit 2 Transformations Test

Finishing Unit 1

The last topic in the unit is inverses - solving for the other variable. Followed by lots of practice and a unit test.

10/01  Inverses pp.48-51

10/04  Graphing inverses pp.52-54
10/06  Test Review pp.60-61
10/07  Review Activities, catch up on undone homework
10/08  Professional Developement - no school

10/11  Columbus Day - no school
10/13  More test review pp.62-64
10/14  Function Test

Moving on with our review of functions

Here is the syllabus leading up to our first quiz.

9/20 Three ways to describe functions p.24-29
9/22 Graphs and Table on Calculator p.30-31, Marble Experiment p.34-36
9/23 Scatter Plots on Calculator p.33, Function Operations p.37-40
9/24 Changes in Input/Output p.41, Compostition p.42-44, Extra Practice p.45 (odds)

9/27 Extra Practice p.45 (evens), Word Problems p.46-47
9/29 Quiz Review p.55-59 (and Back-to-School Night)
9/30 Quiz on sections 1.1 - 1.4

Welcome! Let's get started!

This webpage will keep you updated on the syllabus for the course. Usually the homework will be to finish whatever we started in class. Most of the time this will mean that your worksheet should be complete up to a certain page. That is the information that will be posted here.

9/08 Math Modeling Problems 1-4 on pp.2-6
9/09 Rosh Hashanah - no school
9/10 Finding patterns and their math models pp.6-7

9/13 Function Definition and Notation pp.8-13
9/15 More Function Notation problems 1-14 on pp.17-20
9/16 Half Day - no class
9/17 Graphs and Definitions pp. 21-23