The MPC30S Curriculum:

Section Title Textbook Chapter and Course Weight /100

A-1 Absolute Value 7.1 (Weighting: 2%)

Students will demonstrate an understanding of the absolute value of real numbers.

A-2 Operations on Radicals and Radical Expressions 5.1 and 5.2 (Weighting: 6%)

Students will solve problems that involve operations on radicals and radical expressions with numerical and
variable radicands.

A-3 Radical Equations 5.3 (Weighting: 4%)

Students will solve problems that involve radical equations.

A-4 Equivalent forms of Rational Expressions 6.1 (Weighting: 4%)

Students will learn to determine equivalent forms of rational expressions

A-5 Operations on Rational Expressions 6.2 and 6.3 (Weighting: 6%)

Students will learn to perform operations on rational expressions.
• Addition/subtraction
• Multiplication/division

A-6 Rational Equations 6.4 (Weighting: 6%)

Students will learn to solve problems that involve rational equations.

T-1 Angles in Standard Position 2.1 (Weighting: 2%)

Students will demonstrate an understanding of angles in standard position.

T-2 Trigonometric Ratios 2.2 (Weighting: 10%)

Students will learn to solve problems using sine, cosine and tangent.

T-3 Sine Law and Cosine Law Sine Law 2.3

Cosine Law 2.4 (Weight: 6%)

Students will learn to solve problems, using the cosine law and sine law, including the ambiguous case.

R-1 Factoring 4.2 (Weighting: 10%)

Students will demonstrate that they can factor complex trinomials

and difference of squares
R-2 Graphing Absolute Value Functions 7.2 and 7.3 (Weighting: 4%)
Students will graph and analyze absolute value functions

R-3 Quadratic Functions Vertex Form 3.1 (Weighting: 6%)

Students will analyze quadratic functions and determine the
• Vertex, Domain and range, Direction of opening
• Axis of symmetry, intercepts

R-4 Quadratic Functions Standard Form 3.2 and 3.3 (Weighting: 8%)
Students will analyze quadratic functions and determine the
• Vertex, Domain and range, Direction of opening
• Axis of symmetry, Intercepts
Students will demonstrate their ability to complete the square

R-5 Problems involving Quadratic Equations 4.1, 4.2, 4.3 and 4.4
3.1, 3.2, 3.3 (Weighting: 8%)
Students will learn to solve problems that involve quadratic equations.
Students will solve quadratic equations using a variety of methods

R-6 Systems of non-linear equations 8.1 and 8.2 (Weighting: 4%)

Students will learn to solve non-linear systems of equations graphically and algebraically. These systems
will include
• linear-quadratic equations
• quadratic-quadratic equations

R-7 Linear and Quadratic Inequalities in two variables 9.1 and 9.3
(Weighting: 2%)
Students will learn to solve linear inequalities in two variables.

R-8 Quadratic Inequalities in one variable 9.2 (Weighting: 2%)

Students will learn to solve problems that involve quadratic inequalities in one variable.

R-9 Arithmetic Sequences and Series 1.1 and 1.2 (Weighting: 4%)
Students will analyze arithmetic sequences and series to solve problems.

R-10 Geometric Sequences and Series 1.3, 1.4, 1.5 (Weighting: 4%)
Students will analyze geometric sequences and series to solve problems.

R-11 Graphing Reciprocal Functions 7.4 (Weighting: 2%)

Students will analyze and graph reciprocal functions