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=__**Course 2 Unit 1**:__= Functions, Equations, and Systems reviews and extends student ability to recognize, describe, and use functional relationships among quantitative variables, with special emphasis on relationships that involve two or more independent variables.

//**Topics include**// direct and inverse variation and joint variation; power functions; linear equations in standard form; and systems of two linear equations with two variables, including solution by graphing, substitution, and elimination.

=**__Course 2 Unit 3__**= Coordinate Methods develops student understanding of coordinate methods for representing and analyzing properties of geometric shapes, for describing geometric change, and for producing animations.

//**Topics include**// representing two-dimensional figures and modeling situations with coordinates, including computer-generated graphics; distance in the coordinate plane, midpoint of a segment, and slope; coordinate and matrix models of rigid transformations (translations, rotations, and line reflections), of size transformations, and of similarity transformations; animation effects.

=**__Course 1 Unit 5__**= Quadratic Functions develops student ability to recognize and represent quadratic relations between variables using data tables, graphs, and symbolic formulas, to solve problems involving quadratic functions, and to express quadratic polynomials in equivalent factored and expanded forms.

expanding and factoring quadratic expressions, and solving quadratic equations by the quadratic formula and calculator approximation.
 * //Topics include//** quadratic functions and their graphs, applications to projectile motion and economic problems,

=**__Course 2 Unit 5__**= Nonlinear Functions and Equations introduces function notation, reviews and extends student ability to construct and reason with functions that model parabolic shapes and other quadratic relationships in science and economics, with special emphasis on formal symbolic reasoning methods, and introduces common logarithms and algebraic methods for solving exponential equations.

expressions, solving quadratic equations by factoring and the quadratic formula, applications to supply and demand, break-even analysis; common logarithms and solving exponential equations using base 10 logarithms.
 * //Topics include//** formalization of function concept, notation, domain and range; factoring and expanding quadratic

=**__Course 2 Unit 4__**= Regression and Correlation develops student understanding of the characteristics and interpretation of the least squares regression equation and of the use of correlation to measure the strength of the linear association between two variables.

//**Topics include**// interpreting scatterplots; least squares regression, residuals and errors in prediction, sum of squared errors, influential points; Pearson’s correlation coefficient and its properties, lurking variables, and cause and effect.