NOTE: Students need a TI-84 Plus calculator.

This course will focus on modeling real-world phenomena with mathematics. Students deepen their understanding of tools from precalculus and single-variable calculus and discover and master the basic tools of multivariable calculus as well. New topics include the geometry and calculus of complex numbers, hyperbolic functions, families of curves, second-order differential equations, vectors, partial derivatives, and multiple integrals. For selected applications, students create a model, test it, and refine and improve it in an iterative cycle, leading to a detailed report. The course consistently stresses the applicability of the mathematical concepts taught
and their relation to realistic data, as well as higher-order critical thinking.