Math Analysis Curriculum Paper
Ms. Williamson, Redlands High School
Course Description: Math Analysis combines many of the trigonometric, geometric, and algebraic techniques needed for
the preparation of the study of Calculus, and strengthens conceptual understanding and mathematical reasoning ability.
The curriculum focuses on types of functions, including polynomial, rational, exponential, logarithmic, and trigonometric,
analytic geometry, polar coordinates and vectors, parametric equations, mathematical sequences and series, and a
preview of Calculus, including limits.
Materials: The instructional activities in Math Analysis include note taking, class work, homework, and notebooks.
Organization supports a student’s success, and a notebook with divider s is suggested to help you stay organized. The
recommended materials for this class include three-hole punched notebook paper, graph paper, pencils, an eraser, red
pens, a 6- or 12-inch ruler, a graphing calculator, and a three-ring binder with a section for Math Analysis. Your textbook,
Precalculus, should be brought to school each day, unless I am able to obtain a classroom set of textbooks that you may
share with your fellow classmates.
Calculators: Students will need a graphing calculator. Students are encouraged to use a Texas Instruments graphing
calculator, model TI-83 Plus. Students should permanently mark their personally owned calculator with their name in
several places. If you are unable to purchase a calculator, the school has calculators that you may borrow. If you borrow
a school calculator, voluntary donations of four AAA batteries would be welcome so that RHS can continue to lend
calculators to students in high level math classes.
Homework, Chapter Notebooks, Participation, and Extra Credit: Homework will be assigned daily, including
weekends. Completed assignments are due the next school day and will be checked at the beginning of class.
Homework will be graded on effort and completion. Each homework assignment should include your name, date,
assignment number, text section number and page number, and numbers of the problems assigned. To receive full
credit, directions for each problem should be written down, and the problems and all steps needed to complete the
problem should be shown. Late work only will be accepted the day after the due date, and it will receive, at most, half
credit. If you are absent from class, but you are on campus for any class period or activity, you are expected to turn in the
homework that is due that day or it will be considered late homework. If you are missing the class period, the homework
due that day may be placed in my mailbox in the North Campus office or hand-delivered to me in my classroom. Students
are required to print the notes for the week, posted on the RHS Blackboard website by Sunday evening. You may print
them at home or using a school computer in the library, computer lab, or student center. Students may also come in and
copy my notes. I will check, no later than Tuesday of each week, that you have your notes for the week. You are
responsible for completing the notes by filling in blanks, adding graphs, etc. Chapter notebooks, including the cover
sheet, curriculum paper, state standards, chapter divider, notes, homework, and any handouts, will be collected at the end
of each chapter, graded, and then returned. The cover sheet, curriculum paper, state standards, and notebook will all be
provided to you. The remaining chapter notebook items include your homework and materials you will create/collect in
class during the chapter. Class participation will be a portion of the homework grade. The only extra credit given is for
unused hall passes. The hall passes are worth a maximum of fifteen points, and your unused point total is added to your
semester homework grade.
Tests, Quizzes, and Projects: Tests will be given at the end of each chapter. All tests are cumulative. A few quizzes
may be given per chapter. Projects may be given throughout the course. Their credit will vary. A cumulative final will be
given at the end of each semester.
Grading Policy: Grades for each semester are weighted on the following basis: homework, notebook, projects, and daily
participation grades are worth twenty-five (25) percent; tests, quizzes, and the semester exam are worth seventy-five (75)
percent. The total points from all categories are averaged and the grade is established using the following grading scale:
A = 92.0 – 100% B + = 88.0 – 89.99% C+ = 78.0 – 79.99% D+ = 68.0 – 69.99% F = 0 – 59.99%
A– = 90.0 – 91.99% B = 82.0 – 87.99% C = 72.0 – 77.99% D = 62.0 – 67.99%
B– = 80.0 – 81.99% C– = 70.0 – 71.99% D– = 60.0 – 61.99%
Other Policies:
• Students are allowed three hall passes for the entire semester. Each unused pass is worth 5 extra credit points.
• Students with excused absences have as many days as they were absent plus one day to turn in homework
and still receive full credit. Students with an excused absence have two days to make-up tests, unless there are
extenuating circumstances, or a zero will be given. Students must make arrangements with the teacher for make-
ups to be taken outside of class time.
• Students are to bring their textbook to class each day, unless instructed not to do so.
• All student work should be done in pencil, unless otherwise instructed. Homework corrections should be made in
red ink/pencil.
• Students caught cheating, copying homework, quizzes, or tests for example, will receive a zero on the assignment.
Further disciplinarian measures also will be taken as per school policy.
• Any cell phone, ear buds, or electronic device, other than a calculator, should be put away during class time or it
will be confiscated and returned at the end of the day. Detention also will be given for its use in class.
