Standard Course of Study
(Framing Text): Extend the properties of exponents to rational exponents.
NC.M2.N-RN.1: Explain how expressions with rational exponents can be rewritten as radical expressions.
(Framing Text): Defining complex numbers.
NC.M2.N-CN.1: Know there is a complex number 𝑖 such that 𝑖² = – 1, and every complex number has the form 𝑎 + 𝑏𝑖 where 𝑎 and 𝑏 are real numbers.
Points in the Complex Plane
Roots of a Quadratic
(Framing Text): Interpret the structure of expressions.
NC.M2.A-SSE.1: Interpret expressions that represent a quantity in terms of its context.
NC.M2.A-SSE.1a: Identify and interpret parts of a quadratic, square root, inverse variation, or right triangle trigonometric expression, including terms, factors, coefficients, radicands, and exponents.
Compound Interest
Operations with Radical Expressions
Simplifying Radical Expressions
NC.M2.A-SSE.1b: Interpret quadratic and square root expressions made of multiple parts as a combination of single entities to give meaning in terms of a context.
Compound Interest
Translating and Scaling Functions
Using Algebraic Expressions
NC.M2.A-SSE.3: Write an equivalent form of a quadratic expression by completing the square, where 𝑎 is an integer of a quadratic expression, 𝑎𝑥² + 𝑏𝑥 + 𝑐, to reveal the maximum or minimum value of the function the expression defines.
(Framing Text): Perform arithmetic operations on polynomials.
NC.M2.A-APR.1: Extend the understanding that operations with polynomials are comparable to operations with integers by adding, subtracting, and multiplying polynomials.
Addition and Subtraction of Functions
Addition of Polynomials
Modeling the Factorization of x2+bx+c
(Framing Text): Create equations that describe numbers or relationships.
NC.M2.A-CED.1: Create equations and inequalities in one variable that represent quadratic, square root, inverse variation, and right triangle trigonometric relationships and use them to solve problems.
Absolute Value Equations and Inequalities
Arithmetic Sequences
Compound Interest
Exploring Linear Inequalities in One Variable
Geometric Sequences
Modeling One-Step Equations
Modeling and Solving Two-Step Equations
Quadratic Inequalities
Solving Equations on the Number Line
Solving Linear Inequalities in One Variable
Solving Two-Step Equations
Using Algebraic Equations
NC.M2.A-CED.2: Create and graph equations in two variables to represent quadratic, square root and inverse variation relationships between quantities.
Absolute Value Equations and Inequalities
Circles
Compound Interest
Direct and Inverse Variation
Linear Functions
Parabolas
Point-Slope Form of a Line
Points, Lines, and Equations
Quadratics in Polynomial Form
Quadratics in Vertex Form
Slope-Intercept Form of a Line
Solving Equations on the Number Line
Standard Form of a Line
Using Algebraic Equations
NC.M2.A-CED.3: Create systems of linear, quadratic, square root, and inverse variation equations to model situations in context.
Cat and Mouse (Modeling with Linear Systems)
Solving Equations by Graphing Each Side
Solving Linear Systems (Matrices and Special Solutions)
Solving Linear Systems (Slope-Intercept Form)
Solving Linear Systems (Standard Form)
(Framing Text): Understand solving equations as a process of reasoning and explain the reasoning.
NC.M2.A-REI.1: Justify a chosen solution method and each step of the solving process for quadratic, square root and inverse variation equations using mathematical reasoning.
Modeling One-Step Equations
Modeling and Solving Two-Step Equations
Solving Algebraic Equations II
Solving Equations on the Number Line
Solving Formulas for any Variable
Solving Two-Step Equations
(Framing Text): Solve equations and inequalities in one variable.
NC.M2.A-REI.4: Solve for all solutions of quadratic equations in one variable.
NC.M2.A-REI.4a: Understand that the quadratic formula is the generalization of solving 𝑎𝑥² + 𝑏𝑥 + 𝑐 by using the process of completing the square.
NC.M2.A-REI.4b: Explain when quadratic equations will have non-real solutions and express complex solutions as 𝑎 ± 𝑏𝑖 for real numbers 𝑎 and 𝑏.
Factoring Special Products
Modeling the Factorization of ax2+bx+c
Modeling the Factorization of x2+bx+c
Points in the Complex Plane
Roots of a Quadratic
(Framing Text): Solve systems of equations.
NC.M2.A-REI.7: Use tables, graphs, and algebraic methods to approximate or find exact solutions of systems of linear and quadratic equations, and interpret the solutions in terms of a context.
Cat and Mouse (Modeling with Linear Systems)
Solving Equations by Graphing Each Side
Solving Linear Systems (Matrices and Special Solutions)
Solving Linear Systems (Slope-Intercept Form)
Solving Linear Systems (Standard Form)
(Framing Text): Represent and solve equations and inequalities graphically.
NC.M2.A-REI.11: Extend the understanding that the 𝑥-coordinates of the points where the graphs of two square root and/or inverse variation equations 𝑦 = 𝑓(𝑥) and 𝑦 = 𝑔(𝑥) intersect are the solutions of the equation 𝑓(𝑥) = 𝑔(𝑥) and approximate solutions using graphing technology or successive approximations with a table of values.
Cat and Mouse (Modeling with Linear Systems)
Point-Slope Form of a Line
Solving Equations by Graphing Each Side
Solving Linear Systems (Matrices and Special Solutions)
Solving Linear Systems (Slope-Intercept Form)
Standard Form of a Line
(Framing Text): Understand the concept of a function and use function notation.
NC.M2.F-IF.1: Extend the concept of a function to include geometric transformations in the plane by recognizing that: the domain and range of a transformation function f are sets of points in the plane; the image of a transformation is a function of its pre-image.
(Framing Text): Interpret functions that arise in applications in terms of the context.
NC.M2.F-IF.4: Interpret key features of graphs, tables, and verbal descriptions in context to describe functions that arise in applications relating two quantities, including: domain and range, rate of change, symmetries, and end behavior.
Absolute Value with Linear Functions
Cat and Mouse (Modeling with Linear Systems)
Exponential Functions
Function Machines 3 (Functions and Problem Solving)
General Form of a Rational Function
Graphs of Polynomial Functions
Introduction to Exponential Functions
Logarithmic Functions
Points, Lines, and Equations
Quadratics in Factored Form
Quadratics in Polynomial Form
Quadratics in Vertex Form
Radical Functions
Slope
Translating and Scaling Functions
Zap It! Game
(Framing Text): Analyze functions using different representations.
NC.M2.F-IF.7: Analyze quadratic, square root, and inverse variation functions by generating different representations, by hand in simple cases and using technology for more complicated cases, to show key features, including: domain and range; intercepts; intervals where the function is increasing, decreasing, positive, or negative; rate of change; maximums and minimums; symmetries; and end behavior.
Graphs of Polynomial Functions
Quadratics in Factored Form
Quadratics in Polynomial Form
Quadratics in Vertex Form
Radical Functions
Translating and Scaling Functions
NC.M2.F-IF.8: Use equivalent expressions to reveal and explain different properties of a function by developing and using the process of completing the square to identify the zeros, extreme values, and symmetry in graphs and tables representing quadratic functions, and interpret these in terms of a context.
Quadratics in Vertex Form
Roots of a Quadratic
NC.M2.F-IF.9: Compare key features of two functions (linear, quadratic, square root, or inverse variation functions) each with a different representation (symbolically, graphically, numerically in tables, or by verbal descriptions).
Exponential Functions
General Form of a Rational Function
Graphs of Polynomial Functions
Introduction to Exponential Functions
Linear Functions
Logarithmic Functions
Quadratics in Factored Form
Quadratics in Polynomial Form
Quadratics in Vertex Form
Slope-Intercept Form of a Line
Translating and Scaling Functions
(Framing Text): Build a function that models a relationship between two quantities.
NC.M2.F-BF.1: Write a function that describes a relationship between two quantities by building quadratic functions with real solution(s) and inverse variation functions given a graph, a description of a relationship, or ordered pairs (include reading these from a table).
Direct and Inverse Variation
Quadratics in Polynomial Form
(Framing Text): Build new functions from existing functions.
NC.M2.F-BF.3: Understand the effects of the graphical and tabular representations of a linear, quadratic, square root, and inverse variation function 𝑓 with 𝑘 x 𝑓(𝑥), 𝑓(𝑥) + 𝑘, 𝑓(𝑥 + 𝑘) for specific values of 𝑘 (both positive and negative).
Absolute Value with Linear Functions
Exponential Functions
Introduction to Exponential Functions
Logarithmic Functions
Logarithmic Functions: Translating and Scaling
Quadratics in Vertex Form
Radical Functions
Rational Functions
Translating and Scaling Functions
Translating and Scaling Sine and Cosine Functions
Translations
Zap It! Game
(Framing Text): Experiment with transformations in the plane.
NC.M2.G-CO.2: Experiment with transformations in the plane. Represent transformations in the plane. Compare rigid motions that preserve distance and angle measure (translations, reflections, rotations) to transformations that do not preserve both distance and angle measure (e.g. stretches, dilations). Understand that rigid motions produce congruent figures while dilations produce similar figures.
Dilations
Reflections
Rotations, Reflections, and Translations
Similar Figures
Translations
NC.M2.G-CO.3: Given a triangle, quadrilateral, or regular polygon, describe any reflection or rotation symmetry i.e., actions that carry the figure onto itself. Identify center and angle(s) of rotation symmetry. Identify line(s) of reflection symmetry.
Holiday Snowflake Designer
Reflections
Rotations, Reflections, and Translations
Similar Figures
NC.M2.G-CO.4: Verify experimentally properties of rotations, reflections, and translations in terms of angles, circles, perpendicular lines, parallel lines, and line segments.
Circles
Dilations
Reflections
Rotations, Reflections, and Translations
Similar Figures
Translations
NC.M2.G-CO.5: Given a geometric figure and a rigid motion, find the image of the figure. Given a geometric figure and its image, specify a rigid motion or sequence of rigid motions that will transform the pre-image to its image.
Dilations
Holiday Snowflake Designer
Reflections
Rotations, Reflections, and Translations
Similar Figures
Translations
(Framing Text): Understand congruence in terms of rigid motions.
NC.M2.G-CO.6: Determine whether two figures are congruent by specifying a rigid motion or sequence of rigid motions that will transform one figure onto the other.
Absolute Value with Linear Functions
Circles
Dilations
Holiday Snowflake Designer
Proving Triangles Congruent
Reflections
Rotations, Reflections, and Translations
Similar Figures
Translations
NC.M2.G-CO.8: Use congruence in terms of rigid motion. Justify the ASA, SAS, and SSS criteria for triangle congruence. Use criteria for triangle congruence (ASA, SAS, SSS, HL) to determine whether two triangles are congruent.
(Framing Text): Prove geometric theorems.
NC.M2.G-CO.9: Prove theorems about lines and angles and use them to prove relationships in geometric figures including: Vertical angles are congruent. When a transversal crosses parallel lines, alternate interior angles are congruent. When a transversal crosses parallel lines, corresponding angles are congruent. Points are on a perpendicular bisector of a line segment if and only if they are equidistant from the endpoints of the segment. Use congruent triangles to justify why the bisector of an angle is equidistant from the sides of the angle.
NC.M2.G-CO.10: Prove theorems about triangles and use them to prove relationships in geometric figures including: The sum of the measures of the interior angles of a triangle is 180º. An exterior angle of a triangle is equal to the sum of its remote interior angles. The base angles of an isosceles triangle are congruent. The segment joining the midpoints of two sides of a triangle is parallel to the third side and half the length.
Isosceles and Equilateral Triangles
Triangle Angle Sum
Triangle Inequalities
(Framing Text): Understand similarity in terms of similarity transformations.
NC.M2.G-SRT.1: Verify experimentally the properties of dilations with given center and scale factor:
NC.M2.G-SRT.1a: When a line segment passes through the center of dilation, the line segment and its image lie on the same line. When a line segment does not pass through the center of dilation, the line segment and its image are parallel.
NC.M2.G-SRT.1b: The length of the image of a line segment is equal to the length of the line segment multiplied by the scale factor.
NC.M2.G-SRT.1c: The distance between the center of a dilation and any point on the image is equal to the scale factor multiplied by the distance between the dilation center and the corresponding point on the pre-image.
NC.M2.G-SRT.1d: Dilations preserve angle measure.
NC.M2.G-SRT.2: Understand similarity in terms of transformations.
Circles
Dilations
Similar Figures
Similarity in Right Triangles
NC.M2.G-SRT.2a: Determine whether two figures are similar by specifying a sequence of transformations that will transform one figure into the other.
Circles
Dilations
Similar Figures
Similarity in Right Triangles
NC.M2.G-SRT.2b: Use the properties of dilations to show that two triangles are similar when all corresponding pairs of sides are proportional and all corresponding pairs of angles are congruent.
Circles
Dilations
Similar Figures
Similarity in Right Triangles
NC.M2.G-SRT.3: Use transformations (rigid motions and dilations) to justify the AA criterion for triangle similarity.
(Framing Text): Prove theorems involving similarity.
NC.M2.G-SRT.4: Use similarity to solve problems and to prove theorems about triangles. Use theorems about triangles to prove relationships in geometric figures. A line parallel to one side of a triangle divides the other two sides proportionally and its converse. The Pythagorean Theorem.
Circles
Cosine Function
Distance Formula
Perimeters and Areas of Similar Figures
Pythagorean Theorem
Pythagorean Theorem with a Geoboard
Similarity in Right Triangles
Sine Function
Surface and Lateral Areas of Pyramids and Cones
Tangent Function
Triangle Angle Sum
(Framing Text): Define trigonometric ratios and solve problems involving right triangles.
NC.M2.G-SRT.6: Verify experimentally that the side ratios in similar right triangles are properties of the angle measures in the triangle, due to the preservation of angle measure in similarity. Use this discovery to develop definitions of the trigonometric ratios for acute angles.
Sine, Cosine, and Tangent Ratios
NC.M2.G-SRT.8: Use trigonometric ratios and the Pythagorean Theorem to solve problems involving right triangles in terms of a context.
Cosine Function
Distance Formula
Pythagorean Theorem
Pythagorean Theorem with a Geoboard
Sine Function
Sine, Cosine, and Tangent Ratios
Tangent Function
NC.M2.G-SRT.12: Develop properties of special right triangles (45-45-90 and 30-60-90) and use them to solve problems.
Cosine Function
Sine Function
Tangent Function
(Framing Text): Understand and evaluate random processes underlying statistical experiments.
NC.M2.S-IC.2: Use simulation to determine whether the experimental probability generated by sample data is consistent with the theoretical probability based on known information about the population.
Geometric Probability
Independent and Dependent Events
Polling: City
Polling: Neighborhood
Populations and Samples
Probability Simulations
Theoretical and Experimental Probability
(Framing Text): Understand independence and conditional probability and use them to interpret data.
NC.M2.S-CP.1: Describe events as subsets of the outcomes in a sample space using characteristics of the outcomes or as unions, intersections and complements of other events.
Independent and Dependent Events
Probability Simulations
Theoretical and Experimental Probability
NC.M2.S-CP.3: Develop and understand independence and conditional probability.
Independent and Dependent Events
NC.M2.S-CP.3a: Use a 2-way table to develop understanding of the conditional probability of A given B (written P(A|B)) as the likelihood that A will occur given that B has occurred. That is, P(A|B) is the fraction of event B’s outcomes that also belong to event A.
Independent and Dependent Events
NC.M2.S-CP.3b: Understand that event A is independent from event B if the probability of event A does not change in response to the occurrence of event B. That is P(A|B)=P(A).
Independent and Dependent Events
Theoretical and Experimental Probability
NC.M2.S-CP.4: Represent data on two categorical variables by constructing a two-way frequency table of data. Interpret the two-way table as a sample space to calculate conditional, joint and marginal probabilities. Use the table to decide if events are independent.
(Framing Text): Use the rules of probability to compute probabilities of compound events in a uniform probability model.
NC.M2.S-CP.6: 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 context.
Independent and Dependent Events
NC.M2.S-CP.8: Apply the general Multiplication Rule P(A and B) = P(A)P(B|A) = P(B)P(A|B), and interpret the answer in context. Include the case where A and B are independent: P(A and B) = P(A) P(B).
Independent and Dependent Events
Correlation last revised: 4/5/2022