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Integrated Math IA-IB
Grade Level: 9-10
Prerequisite: None
Integrated Math I is the first course of a three-course sequence including Integrated Math I, Integrated Math II, and Integrated Math III. This course satisfies the California Common Core Standards for Integrated Math I and is intended for all ninth graders. Integrated Math I builds and strengthens students’ conceptual knowledge of functions, linear functions, equations, inequalities, sequences, basic exponential functions, systems of linear equations, systems of linear inequalities, one variable descriptive statistics, correlation and residuals, analyzing categorical data, mathematical modeling, and both coordinate and transformational geometries. This course has been aligned to the PUSD and State Standards for Mathematics, and meets the PUSD math requirements.

Integrated Math IIA-IIB
Grade Level: 9-12
Prerequisite: C or better Integrated Math IA-IB
Meets the UC/CSU “c” requirement
Integrated Math 2 is the second course of a three-course sequence including Integrated Math 1, Integrated Math 2, and Integrated Math 3. This course satisfies the California Common Core Standards for Integrated Math 2. For the Integrated Math 2 course, students continue to develop algebra and geometry skills through engaging and real life applications. Students will build off of the standards they mastered in Integrated Math 1 building on geometry and algebra skills. Students will demonstrate abilities to reason logically and to understand and apply mathematical processes and concepts using algebraic operations, geometry topics with spatial sense, data analysis, and probability.  This course has been aligned to the PUSD and State Standards for Mathematics, and meets the PUSD math requirements.

Integrated Math IIIA-IIIB
Grade Level: 9-12
Prerequisite: C or better Integrated Math IIA-IIB
Meets the UC/CSU “c” requirement
Integrated Math 3 is the third course of a three-course series which includes all of the common core state standards. It builds and strengthens students' conceptual knowledge of tools of geometry, similarity through transformations, symmetry, congruence through transformations, trigonometry, quadratic functions, polynomials and quadratics functions, and their inverses. Integrated Math 3 also includes linear relations and functions, systems of equations, polynomials and their functions, radical functions and relations, exponential and logarithmic functions, and a continued study of statistics. This course has been aligned to the PUSD and State Standards for Mathematics, and meets the PUSD math requirements.

College Algebra
Grade Level: 10-12
Prerequisite: C or better Integrated Math IIIA-IIIB
Meets the UC/CSU “c” requirement

The content in a college algebra course centers on algebraic relationships, functions and graphs that go beyond basic high school algebra. Students learn to solve for one or two unknown variables in a variety of complex equations. They also learn to graph intermediate-level algebraic functions, such as single-variable polynomial functions. Instructors cover topics such as quadratic and rational inequalities, linear and quadratic variables, remainder and factor theorems and exponential and logarithmic functions. This course has been aligned to the PUSD and State Standards for Mathematics, and meets the PUSD math requirements.