PreCalculus / AP PreCalculus
2026 Spring
AP PreCalculus / PreCalculus Part B*
Online
Instructor: Akpinar
Saturday 1 – 3 PM CST
Dates: Jan 31 to April 25
No Class Date: March 14
Prerequisite: PreCalculus A
Fee: $799
2025 Fall
AP PreCalculus / PreCalculus Part A*
Online
Instructor: Akpinar
Saturday 1 – 3 PM CST
Dates: Sept 6 to Nov 29
No Class Date: Nov 22
Prerequisite: Algebra 2
Fee: $799
Note: All topics from PreCalculus / AP PreCalculus Part A are from both curriculums
All instructional materials from the camp, including recorded sessions, will remain accessible for an additional three months following the conclusion of the camp. Zoom and Canvas platforms will be utilized for delivery and access to these resources.
Hakan Akpinar
Mr. Akpinar obtained a bachelor’s degree in mathematics education with a minor in Science. Moreover, he also earned certifications as an IB DP Math teacher from Toronto University and as a Teacher Trainer from Nile-Elt UK.
Mr. Akpinar has over 16 years of teaching experience. Throughout his career in education, he dedicated most of those years to full-time classroom teaching, spending 4 years in a middle school setting and 12 years in a high school environment. Currently Mr. Akpinar is teaching Algebra, Pre-Calculus, and Calculus in a public school in Austin, TX. In addition, he taught contest math to students participating in local math Olympiads, BIMO, MathCounts, and AMC8/10/12/AIME. Beyond his teaching roles, Mr. Akpinar also served as the Head of the Math Department and Vice Principal at various times.
Apart from his professional pursuits, he enjoys engaging in activities with his family, watching movies, reading, and solving logic puzzles. Mr. Akpinar eagerly anticipates an incredible year ahead, where he can foster meaningful connections and surpass expectations at Momentum Learning.
Camp Description: This is a 1-year (2-semester) class that will cover key PreCalculus / AP Precalculus concepts. AP Precalculus prepares students for other college-level mathematics and science courses. Through regular practice, students build deep mastery of modeling and functions, and they examine scenarios through multiple representations. The course framework delineates content and skills common to college precalculus courses that are foundational for careers in mathematics, physics, biology, health science, social science, and data science.
The course begins with a review of functions, their graphing/transformations and key attributes to solidify a foundation for learning new functions. Students make connections between verbal, numeric, algebraic, and graphical representations of functions and apply this knowledge as they create equations and inequalities that can be used to model and solve mathematical and real-world problems. The camp will cover several functions including polynomial, rational, exponential, logarithmic and trigonometric functions. It will also cover polar and parametric equations, vectors, conic sections, systems/matrices and sequences. The course prepares and sets the foundation for Calculus.
Weekly homework will take about 60-90 minutes to complete.
- Week 1: Continuity, domain, range, intercepts, parent functions & transformations
- Week 2: Symmetry even and odd functions, piecewise functions, operations with functions, inverse functions
- Week 3: Power functions, polynomial functions, zeros and multiplicity
- Week 4: Remainder and factor theorem, dividing polynomials, rational zeros
- Week 5: Irrational zeros and descartes, complex zeros, exponent functions
- Week 6:Writing polynomial, exponent decay and growth, compound interest
- Week 7: Log, solving exponent equations, solving log equations
- Week 8: Trig functions angles, trig functions
- Week 9: Trig functions – continued
- Week 10: Trig functions – continued
- Week 11: Trig functions – continued
- Week 12: Trig functions – continued
- Week 1: Trigonometric identities
- Week 2: Trigonometric equations
- Week 3: Sum and difference identities, double and half angle identities
- Week 4: Laws of sines, vector
- Week 5: Laws of cosines, area
- Week 6: Complex number
- Week 7: Polar coordinates
- Week 8: Polar coordinates, 3-dimensional coordinates
- Week 9: Analytic geometry
- Week 10: Parametric functions
- Week 11: Limits
- Week 12: Sequences