Math 12
Mathematics
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.
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Reasoning and Analyzing
- Demonstrate fluency with mental mathematics and estimation
- Develop inductive and deductive mathematical reasoning
- Use tools or technology to explore and create patterns and relationships, and test conjectures
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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
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Communicating and Representing
- Use mathematical vocabulary and language to communicate in a variety of ways to explain, clarify, and justify ideas
- Develop mathematical understanding through concrete, pictorial and symbolic representations
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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.
Mathematics 9
Course Code: MMA--09--S
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
Workplace Math 10
Course Code: MWPM-10--S
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
- Solving problems involving surface area and volume
- Angles
- Central tendency
- Experimental probability
- Financial literacy: gross and net pay
Foundations of Math & Pre-Calculus 10
Course Code: MFMP-10--S
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
Foundations of Math & Pre-Calculus 10 Honours
(Recommended: B or better in Mathematics 9)
Course Code: MFMP-10H-S
This course develops the same strands as stated above in the Foundations of Math & Pre-Calculus 10 but with enrichment.
Workplace Math 11
Course Code: MWPM-11--S
Workplace 11 satisfies the graduation requirement for a math course at the Grade 11 level. Content in this pathway was chosen to meet the needs of students intending to pursue careers in the trades and general workplaces. Students will study:
- Financial literacy
- Rate of change
- Contexts
- Interpreting graphs
- 3-dimensional objects
- Problem solving
Foundations of Math 11
Course Code: MFOM-11-S
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
Pre-Calculus Math 11
Course Code: MPREC11--S
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
Foundations of Math 12
Course Code: MFOM-12--S
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
Pre-Calculus Math 12
Course Code: MPREC12--S
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
Calculus 12
(Pre-Calculus 12 with B average recommended)
Course Code: MCALC12--S
This is an excellent preparatory course for first year University Mathematics. The course content is mostly differentiation with applications and introduction of basic integration. (Students registered in CALC 12 may write the UBC/SFU/UNBC/UVIC Challenge Exam in the first week of June.) A percentage with a letter grade is mailed directly to the student's home address. The student may then present this credit to local institutions within British Columbia to receive their first year Calculus credit.