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MA504
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Pre-Calculus Honors
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Math
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Fulfills "a - g" requirement.
Prerequisite: Algebra 2 Honors or Trigonometry with a “C” or better
This is a college preparatory course developed for accelerated students. Topics include: transformations of functions, solving non-right triangles (Law of Sines, Law of Cosines), radian measure, unit circle, area under a curve (approximations using left-hand endpoints rectangles, right-hand endpoint rectangles, midpoints, and trapezoids), piecewise-defined functions, summation notation, exponentials and logarithms, circular functions (including reciprocal functions, modeling periodic behavior, identities), introduction to limits, the ambiguous case, binomial expansion, polynomial division, finite series, infinite geometric series, rates of change (secant lines, tangent lines, average, instantaneous), derivative, vectors, parametric equations, polar equations, complex numbers, conic sections
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