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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.

Reasoning and Analyzing

Understanding and Solving Communicating and Representing Connecting and Reflecting

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. The Math Flowchart is available as a reference for choosing courses based on your post-secondary goals.

Grade 9

Mathematics 9

9 Required
Course Code: MMA--09--S

Mathematics 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

Grade 10

Contents

Workplace Math 10

10 Required
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 (with/without Honours)

10 Required
Course Codes: MFMP-10--S, MFMP-10H-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

Honours develops the same strands but with enrichment. B or better in Mathematics 9 is recommended.

Grade 11

Contents

Workplace Math 11

11 Required
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
  • Three-dimensional objects
  • Problem solving

Foundations of Math 11

11 Required
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

11 Required
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

Grade 12

Contents

Foundations of Math 12

12 Required
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 12

12 Required
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

12 Elective
Course Code: MCALC12--S
Recommended Course:

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 Calculus 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.