George Washington High School Name: ______August 2012 Per.: ______Date: ______

Mr. McHugh Algebra 2 Phone: (720) 423-8862 Email:[email protected] MathMcHugh.wikispaces.com

Goals for this class: To pass the course with a C or better. To pass the district exams, to be prepared for Precalculus.

Primary Textbook: Discovering Advanced Algebra An Investigaative Approach, Jerald Murdock, Ellen Kamishchke, Eric,Kamischke,Key Curriculum Press, 2004

MATERIALS: A three-ring binder for all class work. A pencil, paper (ruled and grid), ruler (cm & in), protractor, compass, colored pencils and a TI-84 Plus Calculator. The notebook will count for 10% of the six-week grade .

HOMEWORK: Is assigned to reinforce concepts and skills learned in class and is due the following day unless stated otherwise. It is evaluated as: acceptable (five points) or not (zero points). Daily warm ups count for one point. Class work is practice with new concepts during class. Homework and class work will count for 30% of the six-week grade. One missing homework assignment per six-weeks will be dropped.

ASSESSMENT: An exam will be given at the end of every chapter. Quizzes are given approximately every two sections of a chapter. Tests will count for 50% of the six-week grade and quizzes 10%. Students may use a calculator and their notecard. If a student fails an exam, they may come in at teacher’s discretion to revise their test by reworking some assigned problems for half credit. They may bring their test score up to a C-.

MAKE UP POLICY: Only tests or quizzes missed because of an excused absence or school related absence may be made up for credit. It is the student’s responsibility to make up missed tests or quizzes. If the test or quiz is not made up the student will receive a zero. Homework must be made up within one week of due date and will be worth 3 points or 60% of original value.

GRADES: Students can approximate their grade by totaling points earned from tests, homework, and quizzes and using these ratios in the weighted grade formula to calculate their grade. The DPS grading scale (in percent) is given below. 100 -93 A 92-90 A- 89-87 B+ 86-83 B 82-80 B- 79-77 C+ 76-73 C 72-70 C- 69-60 D 59-0 F The student is responsible for keeping graded exams, quizzes and homework in their binder as a record of work completed, and for a grade on the notebook. The semester grade is the average of the three six-week grades.

CLASSROOM EXPECTATIONS: 1) Stay in your seat until the bell rings. 2) No food in class. 3) Be to class on time. 4) Use hand signal to show readiness 5) Do not leave class without permission 6) Do not be disruptive. If a student interferes with the educational process, appropriate consequences will follow.

We will cover: Chapter 2 Describing Data; Chapter 1 Patterns and Recursion; Chapter 3 Linear Models and Systems; Chapter 4 Functions, Relations and Transformations; Chapter 12 Probability; Chapter 5 Exponential, Power and Logarithmic Functions; Chapter 6 matrices and Linear Systems; Chapter 7 Quadratic and Other Polynomial functions; Chapter 9 Conic Sections and Rational Functions

TUTORING: I am available from 2:40 – 3:10 Mon, Tue, and Fri and by arrangement. Honor Society students and peers also tutor.

TARDIES: A student must have a tardy slip to enter after the bell rings as the door is locked for the first ten minutes of each class period.

ATTENDANCE: When a student has been absent the G.W. attendance policy states that you must have a note from your parent or guardian within two days to excuse the absence. NO MAKE UP WORK WILL BE GIVEN FOR AN UNEXCUSED ABSENCE. See separate GW attendance policy.

Prerequisite: Student should have passed Geometry 1 and 2.

Parent or Guardian signature: ______