Algebra 2H AB 2018-2019

Schedule

Semester 1

Week Class Date Topic Assignments

1
September • First Class!
• Intro Essay!
11th • Introductions

(Tue) • What is Algebra really?

Numbers: Mathematical Structures

September
• Philosophical questions
• Reading #1 +
1 2 13th • Introducing the natural numbers,
response

(Thur) • Primes - a “color” of certain • Why does the

numbers order in which
we multiply
numbers not
matter?
3 September • Commutativity
• Reading #2

14th / 15th
• The integers and the rational • Why is (-1)
(Fri/Sat)
numbers (-1)=1?
2 4 September • Irrational numbers and • Reading #3 +
18th
Pythagorus
response
(Tue)
• The real numbers
• “Counting" numbers! How • Reading #4 +
September “many" are there? response
5 19th

(Wed)
Functions

6 September • Intuitive version: functions as

20th/21st

(Thur/Fri)
mappings

• The abstraction: function

notation

• Preliminary examples
Week Class Date Topic Assignments
7 September Properties of Functions
22nd

(Sat)
• Injective, surjective, and
bijective
8 September
25th

(Tue)

9 September • Composition of functions Study for Test

26th
#1!
(Wed)
3
10 September • Test Review! Study for Test
27th / 28th
#1!
(Thur/Fri)

11 September • Test #1
29th

12 October • Domain and Range

2nd

13 October • Inverse functions

4 3rd
• Relation to domain + range,
14 October composition, and bijectivity
4th / 5th

15 October • Transformation of functions /

9th
parent functions
16 October • Effect of transformations on
10th domain / range
5
17 October • Linear functions
11th/12th

18 October • Quadratic functions

13th

19 October • Equations + zeros

Study for Test
16th
• Factoring #2!
20 October Test #2
17th
6
21 October • The quadratic formula +
19th completing the square
Week Class Date Topic Assignments
22 October • Vertex form / standard form,
20th and graphing quadratics
23 October • Cubics and quartics… a
23rd “quadratic formula?”
24 October • Back to number systems: The
7 24th / 25th complex numbers
25 October
26th / 27th

Systems of Equations, Polynomials, and Linear

October Algebra
26
30th
• Systems of two equations, and
solution possibilities
8
27 October • Systems of three equations, and
31st solution possibilities
28 November
2nd

29 November • Matrices - another way of

6th solving systems!!
30 November
7th
9
31 November
8th / 9th

32 November • Review for test #3! Study for Test

10th #3!
33 November Test #3
13th

34 November • Polynomials!
14th
10
35 November
15th / 16th

36 November • Polynomial long division

17th
Week Class Date Topic Assignments
37 November
27th

38 November • GCF of two polynomials

28th / 29th
11
Rational +Exponential Functions
December
39
1st
• Rational functions

40 December
4th

41 December
5th
12
42 December • Exponential functions
6th / 7th

43 December
8th

44 December • Review for Test #4! Study for Test

11th #4!
45 December Test #4
13 12th

46 December • Something cool!

13th