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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:  freidk@d11.org

Phone:  328-5062  voice mail number 65035

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.

Semester One:

      Chapter One: 

ü      Review skills needed to analyze data from a table, a graph, an equation and/or a situation.

ü      Collect data relating spring length to weight.

ü      Collect data about apparent visual size.

ü      Practice using graphic analysis vocabulary in context

Chapter Two: 

ü      Review skills needed for statistical analysis.

ü      New skills: calculating sum of residual errors; using 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.

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 Four:

ü      Transformations in Art

  ü      Symmetry

  ü      Isometries

  ü      Perspective

Semester Two:

Chapter Five:

 ü      Algebra of Motion

 ü      Solving Quadratic Equations

 ü      Applications of Quadratics 

 

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

 

Chapter Eight:

 ü      Trigonometry

 ü      Periodic Motion

 ü      Sinusoidal Regression

 ü      Algebra of Music

 

 

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