Pre-Calculus 20

The following page outlines important information regarding Pre-Calculus 20. Please take this sheet home for your parents to read.

1. Missed Exam Policy

As usual, if a student is ill please contact the office as soon as possible to clear the absence.
Any missed exams will be made up the last Friday of the semester before final exams. The reason this is done is that when the students are studying for their missed exam they are also studying for their final exam.
I strongly discourage students to be absent during final exam time. I understand, however, that circumstances occur. Under these circumstances, please contact the office.

2. Missed Quiz Policy

We will be writing series of short quizzes frequently. Any quiz that is missed will be written with your unit exam at the end of the chapter.

3. Academic Dishonesty

Academic dishonesty is essentially cheating &/or copying. Writing formulas on calculators, smuggling in electronic devices such as MP3 players or phones with notes typed inside, cheat sheets, or looking off of a neighbouring student’s exam constitutes cheating. This is a discipline matter and will be dealt with by the office. I take this matter very seriously.

4. Homework Policy

I try to give students as much class time to do their assignments as possible. You are expected to use this time to work. Please be aware that what you do not finish in class will be required to be done for homework unless otherwise specified. At times I do homework checks. On the occasion that you are not finished you will be sent to study hall to complete the assignment until it is finished. Skipping study hall automatically places you in detention.

*** IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT YOU KEEP UP WITH YOUR DAILY WORK AND (WHEN NECESSARY) DO YOUR HOMEWORK IN MATHEMATICS. *** You will only fall behind if you do not keep up. It is impossible to learn a semester’s worth of material the night before a final exam.

5. Attendance Policy

Attendance is crucial to your success and understanding. I understand that situations arise when you are unable to attend school. IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO CATCH UP ON ALL MISSED HOMEWORK BEFORE ANY EXAMS OR QUIZZES ARE WRITTEN.
The following excuses are UNACCEPTABLE when you are writing an exam:
“I don’t know how do to this because I was at (insert school event/field trip/co-curricular course here)/on holiday.” I understand that extra-curricular activities and field trips sometimes require you to be outside of the classroom but it is YOUR RESPONSIBILITY to get your missed work, notes, and assignments before any exams. “I wasn’t here the day we learned this” is NOT a valid excuse at any time.

6. Evaluation Policy

Evaluation will consist primarily of unit exams and quizzes. It is therefore important that you attend regularly to maximize your potential for good grades. You mark will be calculated as follows:

UNIT EXAMS: 45%
QUIZZES, ASSIGNMENTS, HOMEWORK: 25%
FINAL COMPREHENSIVE EXAM: 30%

7. Twitter Account

I maintain a Twitter account where parents and students can be up to
date with what is going on in our class on a daily basis. I primarily post daily
homework and reminders for exams and quizzes. You do not need to join
Twitter to see my “tweets” (posts). Go to www.twitter.com/mathmrh .
If you are already a member of Twitter, you can “follow” me so you can be
immediately updated. For Pre-Calculus 20, look for tweets prefaced with
“PRECALC 20:” as I use the same account to for my other classes.

8. Other Contact Info

Feel free to contact me via email at faron.hrynewich@spiritsd.ca OR
calculus@spiritsd.ca or by telephone 933-1022.

 

TOPICS:

1. RADICALS
2. RATIONAL EXPRESSIONS & EQUATIONS
3. QUADRATIC FUNCTIONS
4. QUADRATIC EQUATIONS
5. SYSTEMS OF EQUATIONS
6. LINEAR AND QUADRATIC INEQUALITIES
7. ABSOLUTE VALUE
8. SEQUENCES AND SERIES
9. TRIGONOMETRY