Lassiter High School
Reaching Excellence and Climbing Higher
Mathematics Department
Fall Semester 2012
COURSE TITLE: Accelerated CCGPS Coordinate Algebra/Analytic Geometry A INSTRUCTOR: Rene Stoll
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CLASS/TEACHER WEBSITE: http://lhsblogs.typepad.com/stoll/
COURSE DESCRIPTION: Accelerated CCGPS Algebra/Geometry is the first in the sequence of mathematics courses designed to ensure that students are prepared to take higher level mathematics courses during their high school career including Advanced Placement Calculus AB, Advanced Placement Calculus BC, and Advanced Placement Statistics. The fundamental purpose of Accelerated CCGPS Coordinate Algebra/Analytic Geometry A is to formalize and extend the mathematics that students learned in the middle grades. The critical areas, organized into units, deepen and extend understanding of linear relationships, in part by contrasting them with exponential phenomena, and in part by applying linear models to data that exhibit a linear trend. Coordinate Algebra uses algebra to deepen and extend understanding of geometric knowledge from prior grades. The next unit in the course ties together the algebraic and geometric ideas studied. Transformations on the coordinate plane provide opportunities for the formal study of congruence and similarity. The study of similarity leads to an understanding of right triangle trigonometry and connects to quadratics through Pythagorean relationships. The study of circles uses similarity and congruence to develop basic theorems relating circles and lines and rounds out the course. The Mathematical Practice Standards apply throughout each course and, together with the content standards, prescribe that students experience mathematics as a coherent, useful, and logical subject that makes use of their ability to make sense of problem situations.
GRADING POLICY: Tests 50%
Quizzes 25%
Classwork/Participation ……………………………………. 10%
Final Exam 15%
TEXTS/READINGS: McDougal Littell Georgia High School Mathematics 1 Replacement cost $69.48
McDougal Littell Geogria High School Mathematics 2 Replacement cost $71.25
The online version of the textbook can be found at activate.classzone.com
CALCULATORS: The use of TI graphing calculators will be incorporated daily and extensively with the content throughout the course. Each student is encouraged to have his or her own graphing calculator. If you have a graphing calculator, you may use it on any in-class work, homework, test, and task. Graphing calculators are allowed on national tests (SAT, ACT). They are a valuable investment that will be useful throughout high school and college and are not limited to mathematics classes. I recommend the TI-84 Plus SE or the TI-Inspire calculator.
ATTENDANCE AND MAKE-UP POLICY:
A student who is present and actively participates is much more likely to be successful; however, if a student is absent, he/she has one day for each day of excused absence to make up the work. (For example, a student absent 2 days would have 2 days to make up the work.) Students are responsible for asking their teacher for the make-up work, but assignments will be frequently listed on the teacher’s blog so that students can keep up with the class even when absent. A student with an unexcused absence may ask for assignments and may choose to complete them in order to keep up with the class; however, the teacher is under no obligation to grade the work.
If a student misses a test due to an excused absence, he/she must take the make up test within one week of the student’s return to school. Make up tests are administered Tuesday mornings at 7:15 AM and Thursday afternoons at 3:30 in Room 214 of the mathematics hall, or other arrangements can be made with the individual teacher.
TARDY POLICY:
To avoid being counted tardy, students must be seated and ready for class when the bell rings. School policy states that 3 tardies = 1 after school detention, 3:30-4:30 pm; 6 tardies = Saturday School + loss of parking space; 9 tardies = 2 days ISS. See student handbook for additional information.
EXTRA HELP: Mrs. Stoll is available for extra help before school every day at 7:30 in room 301 and after school most days.
ACADEMIC INTEGRITY:
Cheating is considered a serious matter. The parents of a student who has been involved in cheating will be notified and the student will receive a grade of zero for that test or evaluation, and a grade of U in conduct.
For this course, cheating is includes, but is not limited to, the following acts:
§ Copying anyone’s answers to questions, exercises, study guides, classwork or homework assignments
§ Taking any information verbatim from any source, including the Internet, without giving proper credit to the author, or rearranging the order of words and/or changing some words as written by the author and claiming the work as his or her own, i.e., plagiarism.
§ Looking onto another student’s paper during a test or quiz, or using their calculator.
§ Having available any study notes or other test aids during a test or quiz without the teacher's permission.
§ Collaborating on assignments when independent work is expected.
§ Students displaying cell phones during tests/quiz may have their cell phones confiscated, and will be given a 0 for that test/quiz.
STANDARDS FOR MATHEMATICAL PRACTICE:
The mathematics department at Lassiter seeks to encourage students to adopt overarching habits of mind of productive mathematical thinkers. These habits of mind include reasoning and explaining, modeling and using tools, and seeing structure and generalizing.
Mathematically Proficient Students can………
1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them
-plan a solution pathway and adjust as needed as they work through the problem
-persevere
-explain thinking through equations, verbal descriptions, tables, graphs, diagrams and search for trends in data
2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively
-generalize based on what they observe
3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others
-make conjectures with support and reason through the use of objects, drawings, diagrams and actions
4. Model with mathematics
-put mathematics in the context of real world situations and identify those relationships
5. Use appropriate tools strategically
-use familiar, grade appropriate tools and know when they can be helpful
-recognize both the strengths and limitations of the tool being used
6. Attend to precision
-communicate precisely to others
-calculate accurately and efficiently, and show flexibility with strategies
7. Look for and make use of structure
-look closely at patterns and structure
-identify and understand the make-up and inclusion of number (commutative and distributive properties)
8. Look for and express regularity in repeating reasoning
-continually evaluate the reasonableness of intermediate results
LASSITER HIGH SCHOOL MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT FALL 2012
SYLLABUS ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
TEACHER: Rene Stoll …………………………..COURSE: Accelerated Coordinate Algebra/Analytic Geometry A
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