Grade 10 Grade Kit: Printable Algebra 2 and English Practice (PDF)

The Grade 10 Grade Kit is a 142-page printable practice kit for students ages 15 to 16, for home, homeschool or classroom. The pages have a clean, grown-up look made for high school students. Twenty to thirty minutes a day is plenty.

What is inside

• Math, 31 pages of Algebra II with a geometry review: absolute value equations and inequalities, matrices and determinants, systems of three equations, polynomial operations and long division, factoring special patterns (including sums and differences of cubes), rational expressions, complex fractions and rational equations, complex numbers, quadratics with complex solutions, vertex form, maximum and minimum problems, radicals and rational exponents, exponential growth and decay, logarithms and log equations, sequences, arithmetic and geometric series, mathematical induction, permutations and combinations, probability of compound events, a geometry review (parallel lines, triangles, similarity, quadrilaterals, polygons and sectors, surface area, equations of circles), a review and a check.
• Reading, 16 pages: analogies and word relationships, roots in science and math words, following technical directions, research questions, a story (The Early Swim), paradox and ambiguity, literature in its time, allegory and archetypes, reading drama, evaluating an argument, diction and tone, comparing sources, and true-facts pages on DNA and protein synthesis, atoms and isotopes, energy and momentum, and World War I.
• Vocabulary, 20 pages: eight weeks of word study (number roots, science words, -ology, -ism and -ist, words that are easy to confuse, words from French, legal and civic words, words for analysis and research, and words that are often misspelled), each with a word page and a practice page, plus four test pages.
• Language and writing, 10 pages: semicolons, dashes and ellipses, parallel structure, pronoun agreement and reference, active voice and concise writing, commonly confused words, paraphrase, summary and plagiarism, works cited in MLA style, a reflective narrative, a historical investigation report and a business letter.
• Study tools, 7 charts: Algebra II formulas, exponents and logarithms, parent functions and transformations, sequences, series and counting, geometry formulas, right triangles and trigonometry, and grammar and writing.
• Puzzles, 7 pages: Function Match cards, a proof puzzle, an algebra relay, a logic grid, algebra riddles, cryptograms and Math Cages.
• Super Smart Challenge, 24 pages: optional pages that reach two grades up, to Grade 12 level. Limits, continuity, the derivative as a slope, the power, product and quotient rules, the chain rule, derivatives of trigonometric, exponential and log functions, rates of change and motion, curve sketching, optimization, related rates, Riemann sums, the definite integral and the Fundamental Theorem, antiderivatives, Gauss-Jordan elimination, matrix products and inverses, the rhetoric of speeches, literary criticism lenses, philosophical arguments in literature, synthesizing sources, style and voice, chemical reaction rates, heat and thermodynamics, supply and demand, and checks and balances and judicial review. Each page teaches first, then lets the student try.
• For the student and the grown-up: a how-to page, an 8-week plan, a skills checklist, a progress tracker, a study log, a full answer key and a certificate.

Good to know

Traditional, skills-first practice based on California's pre-Common Core standards (math and English language arts, 1997; science and history-social science, 1998). Grade 10 math here is the 1997 Algebra II course, with a geometry review. English pages follow the Grades 9 and 10 standards, the science true-facts pages follow the high school science standards, and the history page follows the Grade 10 world history standards. The challenge pages follow California's 1997 Calculus and Linear Algebra standards, the Grades 11 and 12 English standards, the high school chemistry and physics standards, and the Grade 12 economics and American democracy standards. Not affiliated with or endorsed by the California Department of Education. States set their own standards. Check yours.

This kit is supplemental practice, not a curriculum. It was made with AI assistance. Every math answer in the key is computed by code and checked (answers marked Sample are models), and each science and true-facts page is checked against at least two reference sources, listed at the end of the answer key.

Some pages are shared with our other kits: 24 Grade 10 level pages (15 math, 5 reading and 4 true-facts pages) also appear as the Super Smart pages of our Grade 8 Grade Kit. The geometry formulas chart, the right triangles and trigonometry chart and the grammar and writing chart also appear in our Grade 9 kit. The exponents and logarithms chart and the parent functions and transformations chart also appear in our Grade 11 kit. All 24 Super Smart pages of this kit also appear in our Grade 12 Grade Kit, as regular calculus, reading, language and true-facts pages. If you own those kits, you already have them.

Print on US Letter paper. The inside pages print well in black ink; the cover looks best in color. Print the cut-out page (the Function Match cards) on one side only, on heavier paper if you have it.

You receive one PDF file, delivered after purchase. For your own family or your own classroom. Please do not resell or share the file.