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AP CALCULUS AB
This is a college level mathematics course that is equivalent to the first course in calculus offered in colleges. This course is intended for students who have a thorough knowledge of college preparatory mathematics, including algebra, geometry, trigonometry and properties of functions as studied in a pre-calculus course. Topics include properties of elementary functions-algebraic, trigonometric, exponential and logarithmic; limits; differential and integral calculus. The emphasis in this course is on problem solving.
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AP CALCULUS BC
This college level course is equivalent to the first year of college calculus. All topics covered in Calculus AB are required here. Additional topics covered include: sequences and series, parametric equations, polar functions and differential equations. This course is considerably more rigorous and theoretical than the AB course.
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AP STATISTICS
In colleges and universities, the number of students who take a statistics course is almost as large as the number of students who take a calculus course. At least one statistics course is required for majors in engineering, psychology, sociology, health science and business, to name a few. The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the major concepts and tools for collecting, analyzing, and drawing conclusions from data.
Students will be exposed to four broad conceptual themes:
1. Exploring Data: Observing patterns and departures from patterns;
2. Planning a Study: Deciding what and how to measure;
3. Anticipating Patterns in Advance; and
4. Statistical Inference.
Any student who has successfully completed Math 11 is eligible to apply for this course.
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CALCULUS
This course is designed for students who have completed Pre-Calculus and who want to continue mathematics without taking an AP course. The course will take up the essentials of differential and integral calculus with emphasis on techniques and applications rather than theory.
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PRE-CALCULUS/MATH 12
This course develops a thorough understanding of functions, their properties and their graphs. Particular attention is paid to natural number functions, polynomial functions and their zeros and exponential and logarithmic functions. There is a thorough discussion of iterative methods as applied to the approximation of real roots of polynomial equations. Probability, matrices, and transformational geometry are other topics dealt with during the year.
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TRIGONOMETRY AND SELECTED TOPICS FROM ADVANCED MATHEMATICS
This course completes the Algebra II and Trigonometry curriculum and then explores some additional topics from Discrete Mathematics such as graph theory and probability. It is strongly recommended that students in Algebra II elect this course.
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STATISTICS
The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the major concepts and tools used by statisticians. Students will learn by doing many projects and explorations on their own. This course will be less theoretical than the AP Statistics course, but will expose students to the important ideas encountered by those taking introductory Statistics in college.
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AP COMPUTER SCIENCE
This course emphasizes programming methodology and procedural
abstraction. It also includes the study of algorithms, data
structures and data abstractions. A primary objective of this
course is to teach students how to write logically structured,
well documented, efficient computer programs. Java is the
programming language that is used and taught in this course.
No prior programming experience is necessary.
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