Christi James
CMIC 2 Course Description

Course Description:

Contemporary Mathematics in Context Course 2 is the second year of a four-year integrated mathematics program adopted by the Central Valley School District.  Each course features 'strands' of the following mathematical topics:  Algebra/Functions, Statistics/Probaability, Geometry/Trigonometry, and Discrete Mathematics.  Each of these strands is developed within focused units of the course.

Units covered in CMIC 2A & CMIC 2B:

Unit 1 - Matrix Models (Extends student ability to use matrices and matrix operations to represent and solve problems in such areas as inventory control, social relations, archeology, sports, and tournment rankings).

Unit 2 - Patterns of Location, Shape, and Size (Develops student understanding of geometric shapes and geometric change to solve problems including computer generated graphics, distance, midpoint, and slope in the coordinate plane:  Solving systems of equations; transformations and similarity).

Unit 3 - Patterns of Association (Develops student understanding of the strength of association between two variables and how to interpret predicition lines for paired data).

Unit 4 - Power Models (Develops student ability to recognize data patterns that involve both direct and inverse variation and apply those to problems including analysis of quadratic models, square root and cube root relations, fractional power, and radical expressions).

Unit 5 - Network Optimization (Extends student ability to use vertex edge graphs to represent and analyze real world situations using algorithmic problem solving, matrices, minimal spanning trees, and shortest paths).

Unit 6 - Geometric Form and Its Function (Develops student ability to model and analyze physical phenomena with triangles, quadrilaterals, and circles and to use these shapes to explain sine, cosine, and tangent ratios, angular velocity, linear velocity, periodic change, radian measure, and trigonometric graphs showing period and amplitude).

Unit 7 - Patterns in Chance (Students learn to understand and visualize situations involving chance using probability distributions;  waiting time distributions;  summation notation; and an introduction to the binomial distribution).