Why This Class
To excel at school and in life, your student needs to hone the skill of abstract thinking: the ability to see beyond the here-and-now and recognize the patterns and connections between ideas. This course helps by training your student in the tools of advanced algebra, applying the fundamentals of arithmetic to abstract scenarios.
Mentors in this course guide students on an exploration of rational, logarithmic, sinusoidal, inverse, and composite functions. Students also learn to model real-world situations with statistics. By doing so, they learn lifelong skills including data interpretation and advanced handling of measurements, proportions, and equations. In the process, they prepare for post-secondary math courses or a high school diploma and expand their view of math as a real-world problem-solving tool.
By the end of this course, students gain confidence in the process of using a concrete set of principles to solve an abstract problem. This new skill prepares them to excel in future math learning—and to think more creatively and dynamically in every area of life.
Note: This class is offered as both a Classic course and Honors course. Honors Math is for highly engaged students who like to think deeply and challenge themselves. Honors students will engage with a weekly project, reading, problem of the week, or research topic that will help them dive deeper into the subject and think more critically. These weekly WAM also provides students with an opportunity to explain their deep thinking and push past procedural math to a more complete, conceptual understanding.