This course is designed to prepare students for the Advanced Placement examination in Statistics. The course is the equivalent of a one semester college course in introductory statistics. The course is designed to introduce students to the major concepts and tools for collecting, analyzing, and drawing conclusions from data. This fourth year course is designed for the essentials math student who wishes to complete the sequence of math through trigonometry. The curriculum includes a study of matrices, conics, exponential and logarithmic functions, irrational and complex numbers, sequences and series and basic trigonometric functions.
Emphasis is on problem solving, real data collection, and analysis using the graphing calculator.
518 - PreCal . This course includes the study of analytic geometry and trigonometry topics and is a prerequisite to Calculus. Graphing calculators are required. 519 - PreCalHon . An introduction to calculus will be included and a second semester project will be required.