This is the third in a sequence of mathematics courses designed primarily to prepare students to take AB or BC Advanced Placement Calculus course.  It includes general trigonometry and its functions; exponential, logarithmic, and higher degree polynomial functions as well as rational functions; parametric and polar curves and functions; sequences and series and applications from statistics.  Instruction and assessment will include the appropriate use of manipulative and technology. Topics will be represented in multiple ways, such as concrete/pictorial, verbal/written, numeric/data-based, graphical, and symbolic methods.  Concepts will be introduced and used, where appropriate, in the context of real life applications, projects and experiments.