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.
- Reasoning and Analyzing:
Demonstrate fluency with mental mathematics and estimation;
develop inductive and deductive mathematical reasoning; use tools/technology
to explore and create patterns and relationships, and test conjectures
- Understanding and Solving:
Develop, construct and apply new mathematical knowledge through
play, inquiry, and problem solving; demonstrate multiple strategies
to solve problems in both abstract and real-life situations using
different cultural perspectives.
- Communicating and Representing:
Use mathematical vocabulary and language to communicate
in a variety of ways to explain, clarify, and justify ideas;
develop understanding through concrete, pictorial and symbolic
representations.
- Connecting and Reflecting:
Develop visualization skills to assist in exploring,
connecting, applying, and describing concepts to each
other, to other disciplines, and to the real world.
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 options
- Mathematics 8
- Mathematics 9, then either:
- Workplace Math 10
- Workplace Math 11
- Apprenticeship Math 12
- Future options:
- Technical college
- Trade school
- Direct entry to workplace
- Foundations and Pre-Calculus 10, then either:
- Foundations 11
- Foundations 12
- Future options:
- Arts and Social Sciences (Anthropology, Criminology, Economics, History, Humanities, Languages, Political Science, Psychology)
- Communication
- Education
- Pre-Calculus 11
- Pre-Calculus 12
- Either Calculus 12 or AP Calculus 12
- 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.
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