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Algebra 2 A Credit Recovery

This is an adaptive credit recovery course, in which students will complete a pretest for each module, and will be exempted from activities for topics where mastery is demonstrated. This type of credit recovery course targets individual areas of need in the curriculum and minimizes repetition of content where students have demonstrated their understanding.

Students expand their exposure to the world of Algebra through expressions, equations, functions, and inequalities. An emphasis will be placed on the use of appropriate functions to model real world situations and solve problems that arise from those situations. A focus is also on graphing functions by hand and understanding and identifying the parts of a graph.

Major topics include:

  • Equations, inequalities and linear functions
  • Quadratic relations and equations
  • Polynomial functions and equations
  • Radical functions and equations
  • Exponential and logarithmic functions
  • Rational functions and relations

Students learn through online lesson activities, videos, and interactive activities. Each module begins with a pretest, proceeds to lessons that conclude with a brief self-check, and wraps with a module exam. The course concludes with a cumulative exam.

This course uses content from Accelerate Education taught by a VHS Learning instructor who is certified in their content area and who follows VHS Learning policies. The course will be hosted in the Buzz learning management system. Students may spend 40 hours completing this course, though actual time-spent will vary based on individual student performance in module pretests.

Acknowledgements

  • Algebra 1
  • Students should confirm that their high school will accept this course for credit recovery before registering for this course.
  • This course contains an end-of-course proctored exam. Instructions for students to identify an appropriate adult proctor are included in the course lessons.

Course Objectives

Course Essential Questions:

  • What tools do we need to describe and communicate about quantitative relationships?
  • How can we create and use a mathematical model to plan for the future?
  • How can we communicate about an event using a graphical model?
  • How can quantitative relationships be identified through processing and graphing data?
  • How can functions be used to model and predict change?
  • What problems are best solved using a system of equations and when can they be modeled using graphs?

Course Learning Objectives:

  • Evaluate effective methods for simplifying expressions and solving equations.
  • Analyze, write and graph equations, inequalities, quadratics and polynomials.
  • Construct models to solve real-world problems.
  • Operate, solve and graph radical, exponential, logarithmic and rational functions.,
  • Construct graphs and models to solve and represent equations.

Additional Requirements

  • Students who require screen-reading tools may find accessibility challenges in some components of this course. Consider submitting a support request to learn more about accessibility in this course prior to registration.
  • Graphing calculator