Algebra 2 Honors students should have mastery of Algebra 1 material and a thorough familiarity with coordinate geometry. Students will begin the course with an examination of real-world scenarios that highlight the key features associated with linear and exponential functions and will use these foundations in order to transform their graphs and equations. Additionally, in the Honors course, students will complete a brief introduction to limits in relation to the graphs of piecewise functions. Throughout the course, students will also be strengthening their understanding of factoring, simplifying radicals, and solving linear equations, which will allow them to find the real and imaginary solutions of both quadratic and polynomial functions as well as be able to perform operations with complex numbers. Later in the course, students will be introduced to logarithms and rational functions and will perform operations with and solve equations in each type. The course concludes with an investigation of trigonometry and will tie in students’ prior knowledge of basic trigonometric rules as well as transforming functions and factoring quadratics from earlier in the course. Students will be expected to graph and transform sine and cosine functions and will be able to solve equations including tangent, cotangent, secant, and cosecant equations that require factoring and/or the quadratic formula. Prerequisite: Successful completion of Algebra 1 and Geometry and Instructor Recommendation