HSPA Math 11

This course is designed for the non-college prep 11th grade student with a passing grade in HSPA Prep 10 and non-proficient on the district's standardized test. Also, students with a grade below C in AG 2 should take HSPA Prep 11. The course reinforces their understanding of fundamental mathematical ideas and their applications to enrich the development of their skills for the 11th grade High School Proficiency Assessment.

Proficiencies included in the course are designed to enable students to successfully pass the 11th grade HSPA. The course emphasizes an understanding of mathematics, opportunities for practical applications, special visualization, communication and reasoning, problem solving, and skills included in the four content clusters of Number Sense; Spatial Sense, and Geometry; Data Analysis, Probability, Statistics, and Discrete Mathematics; and Patterns, Functions, and Algebra. Problem solving is integrated throughout the four clusters.

Minimal proficiencies which must be mastered for the student to receive 5 credits for this course are:

  1. Students will be able to use their conceptual and procedural knowledge of numbers, numeration, and operations in real-world situations.
  2. Students will be able to recognize, describe, and generalize patterns and to build mathematical models that can be used to predict the behavior of real-world phenomena that illustrate the observed pattern.
  3. Students will be able to collect, represent, and interpret data to make meaningful decisions, construct and test arguments based on the validity of data, and to understand the role probability plays in interpreting such arguments.
  4. Students will be able to understand shapes and their properties and move from concrete to abstract understanding, by using physical models, two and three dimensional figures, real-world objectives, and computer simulations.
  5. Students will be able to demonstrate both manipulative facility and conceptual understanding of algebraic principles use in problem-solving situations through the use of mathematical models, real data, graphs, tables, expressions, equations, and technological tools.
  6. Students will be able to use general strategies to analyze and solve real-world, mathematical problems through the selection and application of appropriate tools.
  7. Students will be able to develop an understanding of the conceptual building blocks of calculus and will use them to model and analyze phenomena.

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