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Math 3

Mr. Jeffery Motley

jefferymotley@fcschools.net

Room 541

919-494-2332 ext. 253

Tutoring available by request

 

FOR STUDENTS/PARENTS: Math 3 Course Guide for This Week

 

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Math 3 continues the students’ study of mathematics and should be followed by successful completion of Common Core Math 2. This course studies Numbers and Operations, Algebra, Functions, Geometry, Statistics, and Probability. Students will be modeling real numbers, and quantities, seeing structure in expressions, arithmetic with polynomials and rational expressions, creating equations, reasoning with equations and inequalities, interpreting functions, building functions, circles, parallelograms, trigonometry, expressing geometric properties with equations, geometric measurement, and dimension, making inferences and justifying conclusions and conditional probability and the Rules of Probability. 

 

Required Materials: (needed daily)

  • 2-inch Binder
  • Notebook Paper
  • Pencils & Erasers 
  • Color Pencils, Markers, Crayons, etc.
  • Charged Chromebook
  • Graphing Calculator (Recommend TI 84 plus)

 

Classroom Rules and Expectations:

    • Productive. 
    • Patient. 
    • Prepared. 
    • Prompt. 
    • Polite. 
    • All work needs to be completed with a pencil.
    • Cell phones should be put away and turned off. 

  • Students should use the restroom before or after class.  Bathroom emergencies do happen.  This will be handled with a bathroom pass.  You may use up to 6 bathroom passes each 9 weeks without penalty.

Consequences for disruptions/behavior issues:

    • 1st Offense – Warning – verbal or non – verbal
    • 2nd Offense – removal from class and administrative referral

*Severe class disruptions and inappropriate

behavior will result in immediate removal to ISS. 

**No student will be allowed to disrupt the learning of his or her classmates.

Required Activities:

    • Daily class attendance is necessary, it is the student’s responsibility to complete and turn in all make-up work.
    • Notebooks.  Students are required to take notes daily, they must be organized by date and include a title.
    • Classwork/Homework.  Homework is assigned daily!  Expected to be completed. Must SHOW work for credit.
  • Quizzes.  One or Two quizzes each unit.
  • Tests.  End of each unit.

 

Grading:

    Quarter Grades (9-weeks)

      Tests/Projects: 50%

      Quizzes: 30%

      Classwork/Homework: 20%

    Semester Grade (F1)

      Quarter 3: 40%

      Quarter 4: 40%

      Final Exam (EOC exam): 20% of the overall grade.  

 

Late Policy:

A student will lose 10 points every day an assignment is late. If a student is absent on the day an assignment is due, they have 2 days to submit all missed assignments. If they are absent on the day of a test or a test review, the student will be required to take the test on their first day back on campus. 

 

Grading Scale:

A = 90 – 100

B = 80 – 89

C = 70 – 79

D = 60 – 69

F = 59 and below

 

Important Dates:

September 1, 2023 - Labor Day (No School)

September 13, 2023 - Early Release

October 12, 2023 - Early Release

October 13, 2023 - Teacher Workday

November 10, 2023 - Veteran's Day (No School)

November 22 - 24, 2023 - Thanksgiving Break (No School)

December 6, 2023 - Early Release

December 18, 2023 - January 1, 2024 - Winter Break

January 12, 2024 - Day 1 of Exams

January 15, 2024 - Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (No School)

January 16 - 19, 2024 - Days 2 to 5 of Exams

January 19, 2024 - Last Day of Q1

Course Summary:

Date Details Due