Honors classes study the material in greater depth and at an accelerated pace.
Pre-Algebra A course designed to strengthen students' competence in arithmetic and to introduce them to the concepts and skills that they need in subsequent courses in mathematics and related fields. The topics are fractions and decimals, signed numbers, algebraic expressions and equations, ratios and proportions, graphs and histograms, graphing in the coordinate plane, geometric formulas, roots and radicals, problem-solving, use of the scientific calculator, and introduction to statistics and probability. A course that covers the basic structure and techniques of algebra and develops students facility in applying algebraic concepts and skills. The topics include the real number system, equations and expressions, absolute values and inequalities, linear equations and inequalities, systems of linear equations and inequalities, polynomials, rational expressions and equations, quadratic equations, irrational numbers, statistics and probability, and verbal problems. I. Most students complete this requirement during the first semester of grade 11.