Mathematics

Program Overview

The Mathematics curriculum is designed to give all students the opportunity to learn skills to successfully locate, analyze and apply the information they need in their work and personal lives after they graduate. They include the four major strands of competencies that are critical to students' learning, doing and understanding Mathematics.

It is advised that both parents and students maintain contact with the Math teacher when concerns or questions arise concerning Math placements. In addition, please check with post-secondary institutions for requirements of math courses and grades in specific programs.

Math flowchart
Math options
  1. Mathematics 8
  2. Mathematics 9, then either:
    1. Workplace Math 10
    2. Workplace Math 11
    3. Apprenticeship Math 12
    4. Future options:
      • Technical college
      • Trade school
      • Direct entry to workplace
    1. Foundations and Pre-Calculus 10, then either:
      1. Foundations 11
      2. Foundations 12
      3. Future options:
        • Arts and Social Sciences (Anthropology, Criminology, Economics, History, Humanities, Languages, Political Science, Psychology)
        • Communication
        • Education
      1. Pre-Calculus 11
      2. Pre-Calculus 12
      3. Either Calculus 12 or AP Calculus 12
      4. Future options:
        • Business administration
        • Electrician/Plumber
        • Engineering
        • Math
        • Medicine
        • Science

Computer Science 11 or a math elective with Pre-Calc 11 could be your Grade 11 math credit for graduation.

It is important for students to verify with post-secondary institutions regarding their specific admission requirements.

Course Offerings

Mathematics 9

9 Required

Math 9 is a continuum of the skills from the Mathematics 8 course to assist further aptitudes. Students will study:

  • Numbers and its operations
  • Patterns, proportional reasoning and relations (algebra)
  • Shape and Space (measurement, geometry and trigonometry)
  • Probability and statistics
  • Financial literacy
  • Problem solving

Course Code: MMA--09--S

Workplace Math 10

10 Required

Workplace Mathematics pathway is designed to provide students with the mathematical understandings and critical-thinking skills identified for entry into the majority of trades and for direct entry into the work force. Students will explore:

  • Puzzles and games for computational fluency
  • Create, interpret, and critique graphs
  • Primary trigonometric ratios
  • Metric and imperial measurement and conversions
  • Surface area and volume
  • Angles
  • Central tendency
  • Experimental probability
  • Financial literacy: gross and net pay

Course Code: MWPM-10--S

Foundations of Math & Pre-Calculus 10

10 Required

This course develops major strands in Algebra, relations and functions and measurement with more formal instruction. Students intending to pursue post-secondary studies in Arts and Sciences must enroll in this course. Students will study:

  • Real numbers
  • Number patterns
  • Factors and products
  • Roots and powers
  • Relations and functions
  • Linear functions
  • Systems of linear equations
  • Problem solving
  • Financial Literacy

Course Code: MFMP-10--S

Foundations of Math & Pre-Calculus 10 Honours

10 Required

Recommended: B or better in Mathematics 9.

Covers the same strands as Foundations of Math & Pre-Calculus 10 but with enrichment.

Course Code: MFMP-10H-S

Workplace Math 11

11 Required

Satisfies the graduation requirement for a math course at the Grade 11 level. Students will study:

  • Financial literacy
  • Rate of change
  • Contexts
  • Interpreting graphs
  • 3-dimensional objects
  • Problem solving

Course Code: MWPM-11--S

Foundations of Math 11

11 Required

This course is designed to provide students with the mathematical understandings and critical-thinking skills identified for post-secondary studies in programs that do not require study of theoretical calculus. Content in this pathway was chosen to meet the needs of the majority of the students intending to pursue careers in areas that typically require university, but are not math intensive, such as the humanities, fine arts, social sciences, and nursing. (Some programs may require Foundations of Math 12 in addition). Students will study:

  • Scale models
  • Angle relationships
  • Graphical Analysis
  • Mathematical reasoning
  • Spatial puzzles
  • Statistics (normal distribution, interpretation of statistical data)
  • Linear inequalities
  • Quadratic functions
  • Systems of Equations
  • Financial Literacy
  • Applications

Course Code: MFOM-11-S

Pre-Calculus Math 11

11 Required

This pathway is designed to provide students with the mathematical understandings and critical-thinking skills identified for entry into post-secondary programs that require the study of theoretical calculus. Content in this pathway was chosen to meet the needs of students interested in pursuing careers in Math, Engineering and Science. Students will study:

  • Real number system
  • Powers with rational exponents
  • Radical operations and equations
  • Polynomial factoring
  • Rational expressions and equations
  • Quadratic functions and equations
  • Linear and quadratic inequalities
  • Trigonometry
  • Financial literacy

Course Code: MPREC11--S

Foundations of Math 12

12 Required

This course is designed to provide students with the mathematical understandings and critical-thinking skills identified for post-secondary studies in the arts or the humanities. Students will study:

  • Financial planning
  • Geometric explorations: constructions, conics, fractals
  • Graphical representations of polynomial, logarithmic, exponential, and sinusoidal functions
  • Regression analysis
  • Odds, probability, and expected value
  • Combinatorics

Course Code: MFOM-12--S

Pre-Calculus Math 12

12 Required

This course is designed to provide students with the mathematical understandings and critical-thinking skills identified for entry into post-secondary programs that require the study of theoretical calculus, in Mathematics, Sciences or Engineering. Students will study:

  • Transformations of functions and relations
  • Exponential functions and equations
  • Polynomial functions and equations
  • Rational functions
  • Trigonometric functions, equations and identities
  • Logarithms; operations, functions, and equations
  • Geometric sequences and series

Course Code: MPREC12--S

Calculus 12

12 Elective

Pre-Calculus 12 with B average recommended.

Excellent preparatory course for first year University Mathematics. Content is mostly differentiation with applications and introduction of basic integration. Students may write the UBC/SFU/UNBC/UVIC Challenge Exam in June. A percentage with a letter grade is mailed directly to the student's home address for university credit.

Course Code: MCALC12--S

Advanced Placement Calculus

12 Elective

For information go to the Advanced Placement page or click the button below.

AP Calculus