July 19

Honors PreCalculus

 

 

This is why units are important! 🙂

Welcome to Honors PreCalculus!

Don’t let the name scare you. In this course we will pick up where Algebra 2 left off, but not without reviewing what you learned there. You will see all of the same functions with the addition of these functions: polynomial, piece-wise, step, more rational, and trigonometry! Trigonometry goes way beyond SOH CAH TOA. In fact, we will spend an entire semester learning about Trigonometry.

In addition to posting the notes on the link below, if you are absent this year (2021-2022) I will be posting videos of our lessons on google classroom. Check your school email for any notifications from google classroom. PreCal is like a small town, if you blink while going through, you will get lost. This is my attempt at helping you not to get lost when you blink.

If you know you are going to be out for extracurricular activities, please get your work before you leave.

When you are absent, then # of days out = # of days allowed to return work.

Please understand that posting the lessons on google classroom is a courtesy. You could also “phone/text a friend” for a picture of their notes.

Link to Notes T13

March 15

Lesson Plans for the Week of March 18, 2024

Remember to check the blog when you are absent. We still have a lot to cover in Precalculus and when you are absent you are missing lessons and instruction. Watch for lesson videos in your email (when I post a video to google classroom, you should get a notification in your school email). Keep up with the notes which are posted in the “sticky” post at the top of the blog.

Easter Break: March 29 – April 1.

Monday

Course and Bearing

examples course and bearing

wksht: Course and Bearing

Tuesday

Quiz: Inverse Trig Fxns; Angles of Depression, elevation; course and bearing

Wednesday

Fundamental Identities

Trig Identities Activity (notes)

Wksht Class Exercises (1-10) and Practice Exercises (1-32): Fundamental Identities

Thursday

Matching Identities (will post soon)

Friday

Using Fundamental Identities to Simplify the expression

Wksht (1-18): Using Fundamental Identities wksht

 

March 1

Lesson Plans for the Week of March 4, 2024

Spring Break is almost here!!! March 11-15!

Monday go over review; Friday’s assignment is now due on Wednesday.
Tuesday

9WT

Wednesday

Inverse Trig functions on desmos

Inverse Trig Functions: Sine, Cosine, and Tangent

Wksht (1-41, omit 30-32): Inverse Trig Functions

Thursday

Graphing Inverse Sine, Cosine, and Tangent

Wksht (1-22 on the front and 1-9 on the back): Graphing Inverse Trig Functions

Friday

workday

February 23

Lesson Plans for the Week of February 26, 2024

9WT March 4

T12 February 29

Spring Break March 11-15!!!

Monday

TEKS:PC.1; PC.2

Graph all the functions

wksht: graphs of trig functions

Tuesday

workday

Wednesday

Half-day

TBA

Thursday

T12

Friday

TEKS: PC.1; PC.2; PC.4

Solving Right Triangle and Angles of Depression/Elevation

If you are absent today, I have posted a video on google classroom for you. You should’ve gotten a notification in your email.

solving right triangles and angles of Depression and Elevation notes

Wksht #1 (3-24 X3)

and wksht #2 (1-6)

solving right triangles and angles of Depression and Elevation wksht #1 and #2

February 16

Lesson Plans for the Week of February 19, 2024

Test on Wednesday 2/21.

Monday

President’s Day Holiday!

Tuesday

TEKS: PC.1; PC.2

Writing Trig EQs from graphs

wksht: writing trig eqs from graphs

Wednesday

T11

Thursday

TEKS: PC.1; PC.2

Secant and Cosecant Graphs

There is a lesson posted on gc if you were absent.

wksht: graphing secant and cosecant

#18 should be y=sec3(x-3/4pi)

Friday

TEKS: PC.1; PC.2

Discovering Tangent and Cotangent graphs

wksht: graphing tangent and cotangent

February 9

Lesson Plans for the Week of February 12, 2024

Friday, 2/16, and Monday, 2/19, are school holidays!

Monday

TEKS: PC.1; PC.2; PC.4

Graphing Amplitude and Period (A and B)

notes: amplitude, period, phase shift, displacement

Wksht (1-10): graphing sine and cosine wksht A

Tuesday

TEKS: PC.1; PC.2; PC.4

Graphing Phase Shifts (translations: C and D)

Wksht: Graphing Sine:Cosine shifts wksht B (C and D)

Wednesday

TEKS: PC.1; PC.2; PC.4

workday

Thursday

TEKS: PC.1; PC.2; PC.4

graphing sine and cosine (A, B, C, D)

wksht: graphing sine and cosine C

February 2

Lesson Plans for the Week of February 5, 2024

T10 on Thursday

Monday

TEKS: PC.1; PC.4; PC.5

Evaluating Trig Functions NOT On the UC

wksht: Evaluating Trig Fxns not on the UC

Tuesday

TEKS: PC.1; PC.4; PC.5

 Circuit- Trig Fxns, Reference Angles, Angles not on Unit Circle (“exact value” means use the unit circle)

Circuit- Reference Angles (no calculator)

Wednesday

TEKS: PC.1; PC.4; PC.5

More work with reference angles and trig ratios

wksht: More Practice with Reference Angles, Trig Ratios on and off the UC

Thursday

T10

Friday

TEKS: PC.1; PC.2

Graphing Sine

Graph cosine

Watch videos posted on GC

February 1

AP Calculus or no AP Calculus. That is the question.

If this is your question, I have two things for you to do as you are choosing your coursework for next year.

#1: Please go to this website and pick one of our AP courses that we offer at WOHS. The site will show what careers will need that course. You may not need AP Calculus, but you should consider at least one of our AP courses that is offered. I’m hoping for AP Calculus. 🙂

https://apstudents.collegeboard.org/choosing-courses/by-major-career?SFMC_cid=EM1114265-&rid=47075934

#2: Read this article.

What Do Colleges Look For in Students_ _ CollegeData

I hope that your decisions are based on what is best for your future goals. I have former students tell me all the time that my honors math/AP Calculus best prepared them for college whether they were math majors or not. I have former students tell me all the time, “I should have taken your (fill in the blank with any of my honors math/AP Calculus) class.” I’ve never had a student come back and tell me that my courses were a waste of their time.

I had a former student tell me that my honors precalculus helped her make an A in her precalculus course at KC. She said students were struggling, but she was flying through it.

A former student emailed me yesterday: “Thank you for the suffering.” (tongue-in-cheek humor) “Your Pre-AP classes prepared me for college math. If any pre-ap kids talk crap send them my way.”

I had a senior last year at graduation tell me that she found out that morning that she was going to have to take Calculus at Texas A&M for her major. She was so glad she took my class. She aced Calculus 1 at Texas A&M last fall.

I had a former student change her major in college to a different nursing degree plan and it required Business Calculus. She was so glad she had taken my AP Calculus and is now pursuing her doctorate in nursing.

I had a former student tell me last year that the rigor of my AP Calculus best prepared him as he was entering medical school. He didn’t have to take Calculus in high school, but he did and it prepared him for his future goal of becoming a doctor.

So before you “drop out” of honors math because you think you won’t be able to handle the load, please give serious thought to what will be most beneficial to you in your future.

January 26

Lesson Plans for the Week of January 29, 2024

Wednesday is a half-day; early release.

Monday

TEKS: PC.1; PC.4

The unit circle with special right triangles

Trig Fxns Maze

Tuesday

TEKS: PC.1; PC.4

The other Trig functions

The Trigonometric Functions notes

Wksht: The trig functions

Wednesday (half-day)

workday

Thursday

TEKS: PC.1; PC.4

Reference Angles: Day one

Reference Angles

Wksht (1-18)

Friday

TEKS: PC.1; PC.4

Reference Angles: Day two

Wksht (19-45)

January 19

Lesson Plans for the Week of January 22, 2024

T9 on Wednesday, Jan 24

Monday

TEKS: PC.1; PC.4

Degrees/Minutes/Seconds, and Complementary and Supplementary Angles

p. 262 (56-92e)

Wksht: Circuit: Radians and Degrees

Tuesday

Quiz (“quiz before test”)

Wksht: I will hand out in class

Wednesday

T9

Thursday

TEKS: PC.1; PC.4

Numbering the Unit Circle Activity

memorize the unit circle!

Friday

TEKS: PC.1; PC.4

Sine and Cosine

Wksht: cosine and sine functions