Williamsfield School District #210

Curriculum Map 2007-2008

Mahnesmith, Victor / Pre-Calculus / Grade 12 / High School

Month

Content

August/
September

Analytic Trigonometry
Inverse Trigonometric Functions, Trigonometric Identities, Sum and Difference Formulas, Double Angle Formulas, Half-Angle Formulas, Product-to-Sum Formulas, Sum-to-Product Formulas, Trigonometric Equations

October

Applications of Trigonometric Functions
Right Triangle Trigonometry, Law of Sines, Law of Cosines, The Area of a Triangle, Simple Harmonic Motion

November/
December

Polar Coordinates; Vectors
Polar Coordinates, Polar Equations and Graphs, The Complex Plane, Vectors, Dot Product

January/
February

Analytic Geometry
Conics, Parabola, Ellipse, Circle, Hyperbola, Polar Equations of Conics, Plane Curves and Parametric Equations

February/
March

Sequences; Induction
Sequences, Arithmetic Sequences, Geometric Sequences, Mathematical Induction

March/
April

Counting and Probability
Sets and Counting, Permutations, Combinations, Probability

April

Limits
Finding Limits, Continuity, One-sided Limits, Infinite Limits

May Introduction to Derivatives
The Derivative and Tangent Line Problem, Basic Differentiation Rules, Rates of Change, Product Rule, Quotient Rule, Higher Order Derivatives, Chain Rule, Implicit Differentiation