Algebra 2 (3) Apex - Semester 1 Part B
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Algebra 2 Literacy Advantage Semester 1
Unit 3 : Functions Relations and Their Graphs
Lesson 3.4 : Composition of Functions
Activity 3.4.1 : Study - Composition of Functions
Explore and evaluate the composition of functions by tracking what happens to the output of one function as it
becomes the input of another. Write the names of compositions in function notation.
Duration : 40 min
Activity 3.4.2 : Checkup - Practice Problems
Complete a set of practice problems to check your understanding of the lesson.
Duration : 25 min
Activity 3.4.3 : Quiz - Composition of Functions
Take a quiz to check your understanding of what you have learned.
Duration : 20 min
Scoring : 20
Points Earned : _____
Unit 4 : Quadratic Functions
Lesson 4.1 : Factoring x2 + bx + c
Activity 4.1.1 : Study - Factoring x2 + bx + c
Learn about factoring quadratic trinomials with leading coefficients of 1; rules for finding the constant term
and coefficient of the x-term; using a table to factor trinomials; and diagramming signs while factoring
trinomials.
Duration : 40 min
Activity 4.1.2 : Checkup - Practice Problems
Complete a set of practice problems to check your understanding of the lesson.
Duration : 25 min
Activity 4.1.4 : Quiz - Factoring Trinomials
Take a quiz to check your understanding of what you have learned.
Duration : 20 min
Scoring : 20
Points Earned : _____
Lesson 4.2 : Factoring ax2 + bx + c
Activity 4.2.1 : Study - Factoring ax2 + bx + c
Learn about factoring trinomials with leading coefficients other than 1; factoring out a leading coefficient of -1; how
values of factors relate to values of a trinomial; finding factor pairs of leading coefficients and constant terms; and
finding signs in factors of trinomials with leading coefficients other than 1.
Duration : 40 min
Activity 4.2.2 : Checkup - Practice Problems
Complete a set of practice problems to check your understanding of the lesson.
Duration : 25 min
Activity 4.2.3 : Quiz - Factoring Trinomials (Basic)
Due 11/07
Take a quiz to check your understanding of what you have learned.
Duration : 20 min
Scoring : 20
Points Earned : _____
Lesson 4.3 : Special Cases
Activity 4.3.1 : Study - Special Cases
Identify and factor differences of squares and perfect-square trinomials.
Duration : 40 min
Activity 4.3.2 : Checkup - Practice Problems
Complete a set of practice problems to check your understanding of the lesson.
Duration : 25 min
Activity 4.3.3 : Quiz - Factoring a Difference of Squares
Take a quiz to check your understanding of what you have learned.
Duration : 20 min
Scoring : 20
Points Earned : _____
Activity 4.3.4 : Quiz - Factoring Perfect Square Trinomials
Take a quiz to check your understanding of what you have learned.
Duration : 20 min
Scoring : 20
Points Earned : _____
Lesson 4.4 : Solving Quadratic Equations
Activity 4.4.1 : Study - Solving Quadratic Equations
Learn about solving quadratic equations using factoring and the zero product rule manipulating a quadratic equation
into standard form and solving quadratic equations with perfect-square trinomials.
Duration : 40 min
Activity 4.4.2 : Checkup - Practice Problems
Complete a set of practice problems to check your understanding of the lesson.
Duration : 25 min
Activity 4.4.3 : Quiz - Factoring with the Zero Product Rule
Take a quiz to check your understanding of what you have learned.
Duration : 20 min
Scoring : 20
Points Earned : _____
Activity 4.4.5 : Quiz - Quadratics with Perfect Square Trinomials
Take a quiz to check your understanding of what you have learned.
Duration : 20 min
Scoring : 20
Points Earned : _____
Lesson 4.5 : Completing the Square
Activity 4.5.1 : Study - Completing the Square
Due 11/14
Learn the completing the square method of solving quadratic equations. Practice adding a strategic number to both
sides of an equation to make one side a perfect-square trinomial. Then solve the equation by taking the square root
of both sides and simplifying. Use algebra tiles to determine the number needed to complete the square.
Duration : 40 min
Activity 4.5.2 : Checkup - Practice Problems
Complete a set of practice problems to check your understanding of the lesson.
Duration : 25 min
Activity 4.5.3 : Quiz - Completing the Square
Take a quiz to check your understanding of what you have learned.
Duration : 20 min
Scoring : 20
Points Earned : _____
Lesson 4.6 : The Quadratic Formula
Activity 4.6.1 : Study - The Quadratic Formula
Learn about types of equations that can be solved with the quadratic formula; complex numbers; discriminants; and
finding roots (including complex roots) using the quadratic formula.
Duration : 40 min
Activity 4.6.2 : Checkup - Practice Problems
Complete a set of practice problems to check your understanding of the lesson.
Duration : 25 min
Activity 4.6.3 : Quiz - Complex Numbers and Discriminants
Take a quiz to check your understanding of what you have learned.
Duration : 20 min
Scoring : 20
Points Earned : _____
Lesson 4.7 : Graphs of Quadratic Functions
Activity 4.7.1 : Study - Graphs of Quadratic Functions
Relate factors of a quadratic function to the graph of a parabola and its corresponding x-intercepts. Locate the vertex
of a quadratic function graphically and algebraically. Use the discriminant of the quadratic formula to identify the
number and types of solutions to a given quadratic equation as well as to visualize its corresponding graph.
Duration : 40 min
Activity 4.7.2 : Checkup - Practice Problems
Complete a set of practice problems to check your understanding of the lesson.
Duration : 25 min
Activity 4.7.3 : Quiz - Graphs of Quadratic Functions
Take a quiz to check your understanding of what you have learned.
Duration : 20 min
Scoring : 20
Points Earned : _____
Due 11/21
Activity 4.7.4 : Quiz - Working with the Discriminant
Take a quiz to check your understanding of what you have learned.
Duration : 20 min
Scoring : 20
Points Earned : _____
Lesson 4.8 : Quadratic Functions Wrap-Up
Activity 4.8.1 : Practice - Assignment
Submit your work for a set of 20 practice problems.
Duration : 40 min
Activity 4.8.2 : Review - Quadratic Functions
Get ready for the unit test by reviewing important ideas and skills.
Duration : 30 min
Activity 4.8.4 : Test (CST) - Quadratic Functions
Take a computer-scored test to check what you have learned in this unit.
Duration : 40 min
Scoring : 50
Points Earned : _____
Unit 5 : Undoing Functions and Moving Them Around
Lesson 5.1 : Inverses
Activity 5.1.1 : Study – Inverses
Due 11/26
Learn about undoing functions mapping diagrams of inverse functions and finding the equations for inverse
functions.
Duration : 40 min
Activity 5.1.2 : Checkup - Practice Problems
Complete a set of practice problems to check your understanding of the lesson.
Duration : 25 min
Activity 5.1.3 : Quiz - Inverses with Variables x and y
Take a quiz to check your understanding of what you have learned.
Duration : 20 min
Scoring : 20
Points Earned : _____
Lesson 5.2 : Graphs of Inverses
Activity 5.2.1 : Study - Graphs of Inverses
Learn how to convert the graph of a given function to the graph of its inverse by swapping coordinates of all ordered
pairs. Use mapping diagrams horizontal line tests and the concept of symmetry across the line y = x to determine if
the inverse of a given function is also a function.
Duration : 40 min
Activity 5.2.2 : Checkup - Practice Problems
Complete a set of practice problems to check your understanding of the lesson.
Duration : 25 min
Activity 5.2.3 : Quiz - Graphs of Inverses
Take a quiz to check your understanding of what you have learned.
Duration : 20 min
Scoring : 20
Points Earned : _____
Lesson 5.3 : Parent Functions
Activity 5.3.1 : Study - Parent Functions
Learn about the properties and graphs of linear parent functions quadratic parent functions absolute value parent
functions and reciprocal parent functions.
Duration : 40 min
Activity 5.3.2 : Checkup - Practice Problems
Complete a set of practice problems to check your understanding of the lesson.
Duration : 25 min
Activity 5.3.3 : Quiz - Parent Functions
Take a quiz to check your understanding of what you have learned.
Duration : 20 min
Scoring : 20
Points Earned : _____
Lesson 5.6 : Transformation of Parent Functions
Activity 5.6.1 : Study - Transformation of Parent Functions
Due 12/05
Learn how to perform vertical shifts horizontal shifts vertical stretches and compressions horizontal stretches and
compressions and any combination of these transformations on parent functions.
Duration : 40 min
Activity 5.6.2 : Checkup - Practice Problems
Complete a set of practice problems to check your understanding of the lesson.
Duration : 25 min
Activity 5.6.3 : Quiz - Transformation of Parent Functions
Take a quiz to check your understanding of what you have learned.
Duration : 20 min
Scoring : 20
Points Earned : _____
Unit 6 : More Polynomial Functions
Lesson 6.1 : What Is a Polynomial?
Activity 6.1.1 : Study - What Is a Polynomial?
Learn to identify classify evaluate and graph polynomial functions and expressions. Practice writing polynomials in
descending order as well as using the degree of a given polynomial function to predict the general shape of its
graph.
Duration : 40 min
Activity 6.1.2 : Checkup - Practice Problems
Complete a set of practice problems to check your understanding of the lesson.
Duration : 25 min
Activity 6.1.4 : Quiz - Graphs of Polynomial Functions
Take a quiz to check your understanding of what you have learned.
Duration : 20 min
Scoring : 20
Points Earned : _____
Lesson 6.2 : Factoring Review
Activity 6.2.1 : Study - Factoring Review
Review the basic methods of factoring and apply these methods to quadratic expressions. Use the quadratic formula
to solve quadratic functions. Review how the discriminant of the quadratic formula can reveal the number and types
of roots for a given quadratic function.
Duration : 40 min
Activity 6.2.2 : Checkup - Practice Problems
Complete a set of practice problems to check your understanding of the lesson.
Duration : 25 min
Activity 6.2.4 : Quiz - Factoring (Quadratic)
Take a quiz to check your understanding of what you have learned.
Duration : 20 min
Scoring : 20
Points Earned : _____
Lesson 6.3 : Imaginary Numbers
Due 12/12
Activity 6.3.1 : Study - Imaginary Numbers
Learn about imaginary and complex numbers perform basic arithmetic operations on complex numbers and solve
equations with imaginary and complex numbers.
Duration : 40 min
Activity 6.3.2 : Checkup - Practice Problems
Complete a set of practice problems to check your understanding of the lesson.
Duration : 25 min
Activity 6.3.3 : Quiz - Imaginary Numbers
Take a quiz to check your understanding of what you have learned.
Duration : 20 min
Scoring : 20
Points Earned : _____
Activity 6.3.4 : Quiz - Operations on Complex Numbers
Take a quiz to check your understanding of what you have learned.
Duration : 20 min
Scoring : 20
Points Earned : _____
Lesson 6.4 : Synthetic Division
Activity 6.4.1 : Study - Synthetic Division
Learn two methods for dividing polynomials — long division and synthetic division. Use synthetic division to expedite
the process of finding factors and roots of polynomial expressions.
Duration : 40 min
Activity 6.4.2 : Checkup - Practice Problems
Complete a set of practice problems to check your understanding of the lesson.
Duration : 25 min
Activity 6.4.3 : Quiz - Synthetic Division
Take a quiz to check your understanding of what you have learned.
Duration : 20 min
Scoring : 20
Points Earned : _____
Lesson 6.5 : Factoring Polynomials Completely
Activity 6.5.1 : Study - Factoring Polynomials Completely
Learn about the remainder-factor theorem rational-roots theorem complex-conjugate theorem and conjugate-radical
theorem. Learn to use synthetic division to factor higher-order polynomials.
Duration : 40 min
Activity 6.5.2 : Checkup - Practice Problems
Complete a set of practice problems to check your understanding of the lesson.
Duration : 25 min
Activity 6.5.3 : Quiz - Remainder and Factor Theorems
Due 12/19
Take a quiz to check your understanding of what you have learned.
Duration : 20 min
Scoring : 20
Christmas Break 12/20 to 01/04
First Semester Final Exam Review
01/05 to 01/13
First Semester Final Exam
2nd Hour
6th Hour
01/14/14
01/15/14
Points Earned : _____