- Mathematics
Prerequisites: B or higher in Advanced Algebra and departmental recommendation
This is a rigorous, accelerated course designed for 10th-grade students who intend to go directly to AP Calculus BC in 11th grade. Throughout the course, students will be expected to work cooperatively as they embrace challenging concepts and articulate their observations. Students will study relations and functions, modeled with accompanying graphs and situations. These will include exponential, logarithmic, trigonometric, and parametric functions as well as their inverses. The course integrates the analysis of functions and their behavior with the ideas of calculus through the lens of change. Calculus topics such as differentiation, integration, and their applications will be studied in depth. Students will use technology as an aid to visualization and understanding of the ideas under consideration. Students will not take an AP exam for this course; the AP Calculus BC exam will be taken at the end of the following year.
- Advanced Topics