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Welcome to the Palmer High School Math Modeling website! This site will be collaboratively created and managed by the Math Modeling classes at Palmer High School. Contact the teacher: lynchkm@d11.org Phone: 328-5061 voice mail number 65186 From this page you can check your grades and attendance on Zangle or visit Palmer's web site. Here is a link to an online graphing calculator. Parents can click here to check grades and attendance. Course Outline: This course is designed to help students strengthen their mathematical skills through application of mathematical concepts to real-world activities and prepare them for the post-secondary world. Semester One: Chapter Two: ü Review skills needed to analyze data from a table, a graph, an equation and/or a situation. ü Collect data relating forearm length to height.
ü Practice using graphic analysis vocabulary in context ü Review skills needed for statistical analysis. ü New skills: learn how to find the linear regression to calculate trend lines. ü Collect data on the relationship between head length and height. ü Practice using statistical analysis vocabulary in context. Practice summarizing data in sentence form.
Chapter Three: ü Review skills needed to solve a system of equations from tables, graphs, equations, and/or situations. ü Examine employee salary structures. ü Examine cost vs. income for a business. ü Examine cost-effectiveness of purchasing options. ü New skills: using calculator matrices to solve systems of equations; finding feasible regions. Chapter Six: ü Exponential Functions: Story of Repeated Multiplication ü Inverse Functions: the Square Root Function Chapter Seven: ü Finances ü Taxes ü Loans ü Interest Semester Two: Chapter Five: ü Algebra of Motion ü Quadratic Functions in Vertex Form: Story of the Squares ü Solving Quadratic Equations ü Applications of Quadratics Holt Geometry book work during second semester before the final chapters in Modeling with Mathematics Chapter Eight: ü Trigonometry ü Periodic Motion ü Sinusoidal Regression ü Algebra of Music Chapter Four: ü Transformations in Art ü Symmetry ü Isometries ü Perspective
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