This course will cover the first semester of college prep, Common Core Algebra 2. Students completing the entire course will be ready to move onto Functions, Trigonometry or Pre-Calculus. This is a teacher lead, interactive class; I will present the lesson and we will practice together. My goal is to build a classroom community where students are comfortable asking questions and commenting as I believe this drives the learning for the whole cohort. Each lesson will include a presentation of the topics being covered and time for the students to practice together/independently on the content. I work to be readily available to all of my student's questions/concerns during and outside of our scheduled class time.

Students interested in enrolling in this class should have completed a full Algebra 1 course and be proficient with the content. 

The topics covered (dates coincide with the section beginning the week of September 10th, other sections will be ahead/behind by a week):
Weeks one, two and three;  Quadratic functions and factoring
   -week 9-10 to 9-16, we will focus on solving quadratic equations by graphing and factoring.
   -week 9-17 to 9-23 and third week, 9-24 to 9-30 will be devoted to solving quadratic equations by factoring, using square roots and completing the square.
Weeks four, five and six; Polynomials and polynomial functions
   -The first part of this topic, weeks, 10-1 to 10-7 and the first half of week, 10-8 to 10-14 we will focus on polynomials; properties, graphs and computation.
   - The second half of this topic week, 10-8 to 10-14 and week, 10-15 to 10-21 will focus on applying, Algebraic theorems and analyzing graphs.
Weeks seven and eight;  Rational exponents and radical functions
-week 10-22 to 10-28; Evaluate and apply properties of Rational Exponents
-week 10-29 to 11-4; Operations, compostion and Inverse Functions, graph square roots and cube roots
Weeks nine, ten and eleven;  Exponential and logarithmic functions
-week 11-5 to 11-11; Graph exponential growth and decay functions
-week 11-12 to 11-18; Logarithmic functions
-week 11-26 to 12-1; Write and solve logarithmic functions
Weeks twelve, thirteen and fourteen;  Rational functions
-week 12-3 to 12-9; Inverse and joint variation and graph radical functions
-week 12-10 to 12-16; Computation with rational expressions
-week 12-17 to 12-23; Solve rational expressions and compare characteristics