Secondary Math II

Chapter 1 - This chapter will take up approximately the first 3 weeks of term 1. Students will be evaluated
through quizzes and a written exam.
Reasoning and
Proof

G.CO.9
Short Description
Prove theorems about lines and angles.

G.CO.10
Short Description
Prove theorems about triangles.

G.CO.11
Short Description
Prove theorems about parallelograms.

Chapter 2 - This chapter will take up approximately 2 weeks and will finish near the end of September. Students
will be evaluated through quizzes and a written exam.
Proving Theorems
About Lines and
Angles

G.CO.9
Short Description
Prove theorems about lines and angles.

G.CO.10
Short Description
Prove theorems about triangles.

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G.CO.12
Short Description
Make formal geometric constructions with a variety of tools and methods (compass and straightedge,
string, reflective devices, paper folding, dynamic geometric software, etc.). Emphasize the ability to
formalize and defend how these constructions result in the desired objects.

G.CO.13
Short Description
Construct an equilateral triangle, a square, and a regular hexagon inscribed in a circle. Emphasize
the ability to formalize and defend how these constructions result in the desired objects.

Chapter 3 - This chapter will take up approximately 3 weeks and will finish before Fall Break. Students will be
evaluated through quizzes and a written exam.
Congruent
Triangles

G.SRT.5
Short Description
Use congruence and similarity criteria for triangles to solve problems and to prove relationships in
geometric figures.

G.CO.6
Short Description
Use geometric descriptions of rigid motions to transform figures and to predict the effect of a given
rigid motion on a given figure; given two figures, use the definition of congruence in terms of rigid
motions to decide whether they are congruent.

G.CO.7
Short Description
Use the definition of congruence in terms of rigid motions to show that two triangles are congruent
if and only if corresponding pairs of sides and corresponding pairs of angles are congruent.

G.CO.8
Short Description
Explain how the criteria for triangle congruence (ASA, SAS, and SSS) follow from the definition of
congruence in terms of rigid motions.

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Chapter 4 - This chapter will take up approximately 2 weeks and will span the end of term 1 and beginning of
term 2. Students will be evaluated through quizzes and a written exam.
Proving Theorems
About Triangles

G.CO.9
Short Description
Prove theorems about lines and angles.

G.CO.10
Short Description
Prove theorems about triangles.

G.SRT.5
Short Description
Use congruence and similarity criteria for triangles to solve problems and to prove relationships in
geometric figures.

G.C.3
Short Description
Construct the inscribed and circumscribed circles of a triangle, and prove properties of angles for a
quadrilateral inscribed in a circle.

Chapter 5 - This chapter will take up approximately 2- 3 weeks and will finish before Thanksgiving Break.
Students will be evaluated through quizzes and a written exam.
Proving Theorems
About
Quadrilaterals

G.CO.9
Short Description
Prove theorems about lines and angles.

G.CO.10
Short Description
Prove theorems about triangles.

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G.CO.11
Short Description
Prove theorems about parallelograms.

G.SRT.5
Short Description
Use congruence and similarity criteria for triangles to solve problems and to prove relationships in
geometric figures.

Chapter 6 - This chapter will take up approximately 2 -3 weeks and will finish near the middle of December.
Students will be evaluated through quizzes and a written exam or a project.
Similarity

G.SRT.1
Short Description
Verify experimentally the properties of dilations given by a center and a scale factor.

G.SRT.2
Short Description
Given two figures, use the definition of similarity in terms of similarity transformations to decide
whether they are similar; explain using similarity transformations the meaning of similarity for
triangles as the equality of all corresponding pairs of angles and the proportionality of all
corresponding pairs of sides.

G.SRT.3
Short Description
Use the properties of similarity transformations to establish the AA criterion for two triangles to be
similar.

G.SRT.4
Short Description
Prove theorems about triangles.

G.SRT.5
Short Description
Use congruence and similarity criteria for triangles to solve problems and to prove relationships in
geometric figures.

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G.GPE.6
Short Description
Find the point on a directed line segment between two given points that partitions the segment in
a given ratio.

Chapter 7 - Right This chapter will take up approximately 1-2 weeks and will finish before Winter Break. Students
will be evaluated through quizzes and a written exam or a project.
Triangles and
Trigonometry

G.SRT.6
Short Description
Understand that by similarity, side ratios in right triangles are properties of the angles in the triangle,
leading to definitions of trigonometric ratios for acute angles.

G.SRT.7
Short Description
Explain and use the relationship between the sine and cosine of complementary angles.

G.SRT.8
Short Description
Use trigonometric ratios and the Pythagorean Theorem to solve right triangles in applied problems.

Chapter 8 - This chapter will take up approximately 1-2 weeks and will finish near the end of term 2. Students
will be evaluated through quizzes and a written exam or project.
Circles

G.C.1
Short Description
Prove that all circles are similar.

G.C.2
Short Description
Identify and describe relationships among inscribed angles, radii, and chords.

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G.C.3
Short Description
Construct the inscribed and circumscribed circles of a triangle, and prove properties of angles for a
quadrilateral inscribed in a circle.

G.C.4
Short Description
Construct a tangent line from a point outside a given circle to the circle.

G.C.5
Short Description
Derive, using similarity, the fact that the length of the arc intercepted by an angle is proportional
to the radius, and define the radian measure of the angle as the constant of proportionality; derive
the formula for the area of a sector.

Chapter 9 - This chapter will take up approximately 2 weeks and will finish near the end of January. Students
will be evaluated through quizzes and a written exam or project.
Surface Area and
Volume

G.GMD.1
Short Description
Give an informal argument for the formulas for the circumference of a circle, area of a circle, volume
of a cylinder, pyramid, and cone. Informal arguments for area formulas can make use of the way in
which area scale under similarity transformations: when one figure in the plane results from another
by applying a similarity transformation with scale factor k, its area is k times the area of the first.
Use dissection arguments, Cavalieri’s principle, and informal limit arguments.

G.GMD.3
Short Description
Use volume formulas for cylinders, pyramids, cones, and spheres to solve problems. Informal
arguments for volume formulas can make use of the way in which volume scale under similarity
transformations: when one figure results from another by applying a similarity transformation,
volumes of solid figures scale by k under a similarity transformation with scale factor k.

G.MG.1
Short Description
Use geometric shapes, their measures, and their properties to describe objects (e.g., modeling a tree
trunk or a human torso as a cylinder).

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Chapter 10 - This chapter will take up approximately 1-2 weeks and will finish near the beginning of February.
Students will be evaluated through quizzes and a written exam.
Properties of
Exponents With
Rational
Exponents

N.RN.1
Short Description
Explain how the definition of the meaning of rational exponents follows from extending the properties
of integer exponents to those values, allowing for a notation for radicals in terms of rational
exponents.

N.RN.2
Short Description
Rewrite expressions involving radicals and rational exponents using the properties of exponents.

N.RN.3
Short Description
Explain why sums and products of rational numbers are rational, that the sum of a rational number
and an irrational number is irrational, and that the product of a nonzero rational number and an
irrational number is irrational. Connect to physical situations (e.g., finding the perimeter of a square
of area 2).

Chapter 11 - This chapter will take up approximately 3 weeks and will finish near the end of February. Students
will be evaluated through quizzes and a written exam.
Polynomials and
Factoring

A.SSE.1
Short Description
Interpret quadratic and exponential expressions that represent a quantity in terms of its context.

A.SSE.2
Short Description
Use the structure of an expression to identify ways to rewrite it.

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A.APR.1
Short Description
Understand that polynomials form a system analogous to the integers, namely, they are closed under
the operations of addition, subtraction, and multiplication; add, subtract, and multiply polynomials.

Chapter 12 - This chapter will take up approximately the whole month of March, spanning term 3 and term 4.
Students will be evaluated through quizzes and a written exam.
Quadratic
Functions

F.IF.4
Short Description
For a function that models a relationship between two quantities, interpret key features of graphs and
tables in terms of the quantities, and sketch graphs showing key features given a verbal description
of the relationship. Key features include intercepts; intervals where the function is increasing,
decreasing, positive, or negative; relative maximums and minimums; symmetries; end behavior; and
periodicity.

F.IF.5
Short Description
Relate the domain of a function to its graph and, where applicable, to the quantitative relationship
it describes. Focus on quadratic functions; compare with linear and exponential functions.

F.IF.6
Short Description
Calculate and interpret the average rate of change of a function (presented symbolically or as a
table) over a specified interval. Estimate the rate of change from a graph.

F.IF.7
Short Description
Graph functions expressed symbolically and show key features of the graph, by hand in simple cases
and using technology for more complicated cases.

F.IF.8
Short Description
Write a function defined by an expression in different but equivalent forms to reveal and explain
different properties of the function.

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F.IF.9
Short Description
Compare properties of two functions, each represented in a different way (algebraically, graphically,
numerically in tables, or by verbal descriptions). Extend work with quadratics to include the
relationship between coefficients and roots, and that once roots are known, a quadratic equation
can be factored.

N.CN.1
Short Description
Know there is a complex number i such that i = -1, and every complex number has the form a +
bi with a and b real.

N.CN.2
Short Description
Use the relation i = -1 and the commutative, associative, and distributive properties to add, subtract,
and multiply complex numbers. Limit to multiplications that involve i as the highest power of i.

N.CN.7
Short Description
Solve quadratic equations with real coefficients that have complex solutions.

N.CN.8
Short Description
Extend polynomial identities to the complex numbers. Limit to quadratics with real coefficients.

N.CN.9
Short Description
Know the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra; show that it is true for quadratic polynomials.

A.SSE.3
Short Description
Choose and produce an equivalent form of an expression to reveal and explain properties of the
quantity represented by the expression. For example, development of skill in factoring and completing
the square goes hand in hand with understanding what different forms of a quadratic expression
reveal.

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A.CED.1
Short Description
Create equations and inequalities in one variable and use them to solve problems. Include equations
arising from linear and quadratic functions, and simple rational and exponential functions.

A.CED.2
Short Description
Create equations in two or more variables to represent relationships between quantities; graph
equations on coordinate axes with labels and scales.

A.CED.4
Short Description
Rearrange formulas to highlight a quantity of interest, using the same reasoning as in solving
equations; extend to formulas involving squared variables.

A.REI.4
Short Description
Solve quadratic equations in one variable.

A.REI.7
Short Description
Solve a simple system consisting of a linear equation and a quadratic equation in two variables
algebraically and graphically.

F.LE.3
Short Description
Observe using graphs and tables that a quantity increasing exponentially eventually exceeds a
quantity increasing linearly, quadratically, or (more generally) as a polynomial function. Compare
linear and exponential growth to quadratic growth.

G.GPE.1
Short Description
Derive the equation of a circle of given center and radius using the Pythagorean Theorem; complete
the square to find the center and radius of a circle given by an equation.

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G.GPE.4
Short Description
Use coordinates to prove simple geometric theorems algebraically.

Complex This honors unit will take up approximately 1 week and will finish the second week of April. Students
will be evaluated through quizzes and a written exam.
Numbers

N.CN.3
Short Description
Find the conjugate of a complex number; use conjugates to find moduli and quotients of complex
numbers.

N.CN.4
Short Description
Represent complex numbers on the complex plane in rectangular form, and explain why the
rectangular form of a given complex number represents the same number.

N.CN.5
Short Description
Represent addition, subtraction, and multiplication geometrically on the complex plane; use
properties of this representation for computation.

Conic Sections This honors unit will take up approximately 1 week and will finish mid April. Students will be
evaluated through quizzes and a written exam.

G.GPE.2
Short Description
Derive the equation of a parabola given a focus and directrix.

G.GPE.3
Short Description
Derive the equations of ellipses and hyperbolas given the foci, using the fact that the sum or
difference of distances from the foci is constant.

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Chapter 13 - This chapter will take up approximately 2-3 weeks and will finish near the beginning of May. Students
will be evaluated through quizzes and a written exam.
Probability

S.CP.1
Short Description
Describe events as subsets of a sample space (the set of outcomes) using characteristics (or
categories) of the outcomes, or as unions, intersections, or complements of other events (”or,”
”and,” ”not”).

S.CP.2
Short Description
Understand that two events A and B are independent if the probability of A and B occurring
together is the product of their probabilities, and use this characterization to determine if they are
independent.

S.CP.3
Short Description
Understand the conditional probability of A given B as P(A and B)/P(B), and interpret independence
of A and B as saying that the conditional probability of B given A is the same as the probability of
B.

S.CP.4
Short Description
Construct and interpret two-way frequency tables of data when two categories are associated with
each object being classified. Use the two-way table as a sample space to decide if events are
independent and to approximate conditional probabilities.

S.CP.5
Short Description
Recognize and explain the concepts of conditional probability and independence in everyday language
and everyday situations.

S.CP.6
Short Description
Find the conditional probability of A given B as the fraction of B’s outcomes that also belong to A,
and interpret the answer in terms of the model.

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S.CP.7
Short Description
Apply the Addition Rule, P(A or B) = P(A) + P(B) P(A and B), and interpret the answer in terms
of the model.

S.CP.8
Short Description
Apply the general Multiplication Rule in a uniform probability model, P(A and B) = P(A)P(B|A)
= P(B)P(A|B), and interpret the answer in terms of the model.

Chapter 14 - This chapter will take up approximately 1-2 weeks and will finish mid May. Students will be evaluated
through quizzes and a written exam.
Other Types of
Functions

F.BF.1
Short Description
Write a quadratic or exponential function that describes a relationship between two quantities.

F.BF.3
Short Description
Identify the effect on the graph of replacing f(x) by f(x) + k, k f(x), f(kx), and f(x + k) for specific
values of k (both positive and negative); find the value of k given the graphs. Focus on quadratic
functions and consider including absolute value functions. Experiment with cases and illustrate an
explanation of the effects on the graph using technology. Include recognizing even and odd functions
from their graphs and algebraic expressions for them.

F.IF.4
Short Description
For a function that models a relationship between two quantities, interpret key features of graphs and
tables in terms of the quantities, and sketch graphs showing key features given a verbal description
of the relationship. Key features include intercepts; intervals where the function is increasing,
decreasing, positive, or negative; relative maximums and minimums; symmetries; end behavior; and
periodicity.

F.IF.7
Short Description
Graph functions expressed symbolically and show key features of the graph, by hand in simple cases
and using technology for more complicated cases.

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F.IF.8
Short Description
Write a function defined by an expression in different but equivalent forms to reveal and explain
different properties of the function.

Chapter 15 - This chapter will take up approximately 1-2 weeks and will finish near the end of May. Students
will be evaluated through quizzes and a written exam.
Sequence and
Series

F.BF.1
Short Description
Write a quadratic or exponential function that describes a relationship between two quantities.

A.SSE.4
Short Description
Understand the formula for the sum of a series and use the formula to solve problems.

Matrices This honors unit will take up approximately 1 week and will finish near the end of May if time
permits. Students will be evaluated through quizzes and a written exam.

A.REI.8
Short Description
Represent a system of linear equations as a single-matrix equation in a vector variable.

A.REI.9
Short Description
Find the inverse of a matrix if it exists, and use it to solve systems of linear equations (using
technology for matrices of dimension 3 x 3 or greater).

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Series This honors unit will take up approximately 1 week and will finish near the end of May if time
permits. Students will be evaluated through quizzes and a written exam.

F.IF.10
Short Description
Use sigma notation to represent the sum of a finite arithmetic or geometric series.

F.IF.11
Short Description
Represent series algebraically, graphically, and numerically.

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