SpringBoard high school math courses equip students with the critical thinking skills needed for success in AP courses, college, and career. Algebra 2 will help students to: Develop the algebra of functions through operations, composition, and inverses. Read and analyze contextual situations involving exponential and logarithmic functions. Work with functions graphically, numerically, analytically, and verbally. Learn optimization problems. Compare the relative rate of change of linear and exponential functions. Learn the concept of infinite sum as a limit of partial sums. Work with statistics in numerical summaries and calculations using the normal, curve, and the modeling of data.