Developing skills in music reading comes through the training of the ear. The end goal is to see what is heard and to hear what is seen. All students will be asked to perform individually. In addition to daily assignments, there will be a more comprehensive midterm and final exams during class time. The goal of this half-year course is to develop the techniques and savvy necessary to solve the types of problems likely to be encountered in a technological age.
Students learn to use polynomial, exponential, and trigonometric functions to solve modern problems.
Each family of functions is studied in two parts. First, students familiarize themselves with the functions and learn the skills necessary to solve problems using them. Second, they embark on a deep and open-ended problem, using the new functions to model the solution. Emphasis is placed on learning the nature of functions by using a graphic calculator in conjunction with a math laboratory and traditional textbook methods. The prerequisite course is advanced algebra with trigonometry.