Math - Electives

The focus of this course is to provide students with a conceptual background in computer science. The major emphasis is on programming methodology, algorithms, and non-dynamic data structure in the JAVA language. This course prepares a student for advanced placement in computer science by means of the Advanced Placement Examination Level A in Computer Science of the College Entrance Board. Students are expected to take the accompanying AP Exam, which may qualify them for advanced standing in college and/or college credit.

The Data Science Standards of Learning provide an introduction to the learning principles associated with analyzing big data. Through the use of open source technology tools, students will identify and explore problems that involve the use of relational database concepts and data-intensive computing to find solutions and make generalizations. Students will engage in a data science problem-solving structure to interact with large data sets as a means to formulate problems, collect and clean data, visualize data, model using data, and communicate effectively about data formulated solutions.

This elective, semester, mathematics course provides students with the opportunity to combine previously learned mathematics with selected concepts of recent mathematics to solve problems created by modern society. In this course, the main focus is problem solving in a discrete setting. Techniques that are not considered in the current traditional courses of algebra, geometry, and calculus will be utilized. As students solve problems, they will analyze and determine whether or not a solution exists (existence problems), investigate how many solutions exist (counting problems), and focus on finding the best solution (optimization problems).

This full-year course is an introduction to statistics that emphasizes working with data, graphs, and statistical ideas. Students are expected to develop and present professional quality statistical analyses. Technology tools will be used when appropriate to support instruction, especially to allow students to explore graphical, numerical, and symbolic relationships. 

This elective semester course provides a thorough treatment of trigonometry through the study of trigonometric definitions, applications, graphing, and solving trigonometric equations and inequalities. Emphasis is placed on using connections between right triangle ratios, trigonometric functions, and circular functions. Applications and modeling are included throughout the course of study. Students enrolled in trigonometry are assumed to have mastered those concepts outlined in the Algebra 2 standards.