Pre-Calculus Curriculum Map

Month: August Unit: Review Essential Concepts- Simplifying Rational Expressions and Solve Rational Equations Skills/Understanding/ Definition of rational numbers and expressions Student How to find common denominators in rational expressions Demonstrators: Critical Vocabulary: Instructional Strategies: Learning Targets:

Literacy Standards: Tier Three Word and Content Learning. Rational expressions, common denominators Model Presentations, Practice Worksheets, Board Work, Group Work Vocabulary, Class Discussion, Homework Review, Calculator Use I can:
Simplify rational expressions using addition, subtraction, multiplication and division Solve rational equations using addition, subtraction, multiplication and division

1.) 2.)

Assessments:

Bell work, Daily Classwork, Homework, Quizzes, Tests

Month: Unit: Skills and Student Demonstrators:

September Trigonometry

Understand how to use proportions.

Critical Vocabulary: Instructional Strategies:

Learning Targets:

Literacy Standards: R.CCR .4. Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical, connotative, and figurative meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone. W.CCR .5. Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach. Right triangle trig, standard position, degrees, radians, co-terminal and reference angles, arc, circular sector, unit circle Model Presentations, Practice Worksheets, Board Work, Group Work Vocabulary, Class Discussion, Homework Review, Test Reviews, Calculator Use, and Constructions using tools(compass, ruler, protractor) I can: 1.) convert from radians to degrees and vice versa 2.) find co-terminal and reference angles

3.) define the six trig functions 4.) find and angles and sides using the six trig functions

Month: Unit: Skills and Student Demonstrators:

October Trigonometry

Understand how to find area of a regular triangle. Understand what an oblique triangle is.

Critical Vocabulary: Instructional Strategies:

Literacy Standards: R.CCR .4. Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical, connotative, and figurative meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone. W.CCR .5. Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach. Oblique triangles, Laws of Sine, Laws of Cosine Model Presentations, Practice Worksheets, Board Work, Group Work Vocabulary, Class Discussion, Homework Review, Test Reviews ,Calculator Use, and Constructions using tools(compass, ruler) I can:
use Law of Sines and Law of Cosines to find the sides and angles of oblique triangles find the area of triangles using Heros foumula

Learning Targets:

1.) 2.)
Assessments:

Bell work, Daily Homework, Constructions, Quizzes, Tests (summative and formative), Projects

Month: November Unit: Trigonometry Skills and Understand Student Demonstrators: Understand

what a sine and cosine graph looks like. the difference between a Cartesian coordinate system and a Polar coordinate system.

Critical Vocabulary:

Literacy Standards: R.CCR .4. Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical, connotative, and figurative meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone. W.CCR .5. Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach. Amplitude, phase shift, period, double angles, half angles, polar coordinates,

Instructional Strategies: Learning Targets:

Assessments:

rectangular coordinates Model Presentations, Practice Worksheets, Board Work, Group Work Vocabulary, Class Discussion, Homework Review, Test Reviews ,Calculator Use I can: find the amplitude, phase shift and period of a trig function find the double and half angle of functions find polar coordinates convert from polar coordinates to rectangular coordinates and vice versa Bell work, Daily Homework, Constructions, Quizzes ,Tests (summative and formative), Projects

Month: December Unit: Trigonometry Skills and Understand how to verify one side of an equation to Student Demonstrators: find common denominators in rational expressions.

the other. Understand how to

Literacy Standards: R.CCR .4. Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical, connotative, and figurative meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone. W.CCR .5. Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach.

Critical Vocabulary: Instructional Strategies: Learning Targets:

Trigonometric Identities: reciprocal, Pythagorean and identity Model Presentations, Practice Worksheets, Board Work, Group Work Vocabulary, Class Discussion, Homework Review, Test Reviews ,Calculator Use I can: identify and verify trigonometric identities Bell work, Daily Homework, Constructions, Quizzes ,Tests (summative and formative), Projects

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Month: January Unit: Function Theory, Imaginary and Complex Numbers Skills and Understand the definition of a function. Student Demonstrators: Understand the sets of numbers, both real and

Critical Vocabulary:

Instructional Strategies: Learning Targets:

Assessments:

complex. Literacy Standards: R.CCR .4. Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical, connotative, and figurative meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone. W.CCR .5. Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach. Function, domain, range, family of functions, composite functions, inverse functions, sets of numbers, imaginary numbers, complex numbers, operations with complex numbers Model Presentations, Practice Worksheets, Board Work, Group Work Vocabulary, Class Discussion, Homework Review, Test Reviews ,Calculator Use I can: compose functions find inverse functions determine the difference between the sets of numbers find complex numbers reduce complex numbers apply operations to complex numbers Bell work, Daily Homework, Constructions, Quizzes ,Tests (summative and formative), Projects

Month: Unit: Skills and Student Demonstrators: Critical

February Conics

Understand non-linear equations. Literacy Standards: Informational/Explanatory Writing and Tier Three Words and Content Learning
Circle, parabola, ellipse, hyperbola, transformations

Vocabulary: Instructional Strategies:

Model Presentations, Practice Worksheets, Board Work, Group Work Vocabulary, Class Discussion, Homework Review, Test Reviews ,Calculator Use, and

Learning Targets:

Assessments:

I can: Find the equations of circles, parabolas, ellipses, hyperbolas Graph circles, parabolas, ellipses, hyperbolas Recognize conic sections by equations and graphs Bell work, Daily Homework, Constructions, Quizzes ,Tests (summative and formative), Projects

Month: March Unit: Exponential and Logarithmic Functions Skills and Understand the exponent rules and that logarithms Student Demonstrators: Understand what it means to extract a root.

are the inverse of exponents.

Literacy Standards: R.CCR .4. Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical, connotative, and figurative meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone. W.CCR .5. Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach.
Critical Vocabulary: Instructional Strategies: Exponents, rational exponents, index number, logarithms, powers, roots

Model Presentations, Practice Worksheets, Board Work, Group Work Vocabulary, Class Discussion, Homework Review, Test Reviews ,Calculator Use, and

Learning Targets:

Assessments:

I can: Solve logarithmic expressions and equations Use logs to compute powers and roots Bell work, Daily Homework, Constructions, Quizzes ,Tests (summative and formative), Projects

Month:

April

Unit: Matrices Skills and Understand how systems of equations can be solved using a matrix. Student Demonstrators: Literacy Standards: Argumentative and Informational/Explanatory

Writing. R.CCR .4. Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical, connotative, and figurative meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone. W.CCR .5. Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach.
Matrices, determinant, inverse matrix, identity matrix, rows, columns

Critical Vocabulary: Instructional Strategies:

Model Presentations, Practice Worksheets, Board Work, Group Work Vocabulary, Class Discussion, Homework Review, Test Reviews ,Calculator Use, and

Learning Targets:

I can: Use Matrix notation Use basic math operations with matrices Find the determinant of a matrix Find the inverse of a matrix

Month: May Unit: Introduction to Calculus Skills and Understand what a Student Demonstrators:

function is and why it has limits.

Literacy Standards: R.CCR .4. Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical, connotative, and figurative meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone. W.CCR .5. Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach.
Limits, derivatives, anti-derivatives

Critical Vocabulary: Instructional Strategies:

Model Presentations, Practice Worksheets, Board Work, Group Work Vocabulary, Class Discussion, Homework Review, Test Reviews ,Calculator Use, and

Learning Targets:

I can: Find the limit of a function Find the derivative of a function Find the anti-derivative of a function

Assessments:

Bell work, Daily Homework, Constructions, Quizzes ,Tests (summative and formative), Projects