NC Math 3 is a required course for the Future Ready Core Diploma. It progresses from the standards studied in NC Math 1 and NC Math 2. In addition to these standards, NC Math 3 extends its focus to more complex functions such as logarithmic, rational, polynomial, absolute value, and piecewise, and an introduction to trigonometric functions. The geometry focus of NC Math 3 will be circles, and, to continue the study of triangles from NC Math 2, geometric modeling will be used to connect analytic geometry, algebra, functions, and geometric measurement to modeling. The use of sample data to represent populations will be the main focus of the statistics topic.