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MATHEMATICS
GRADE 7
Grade 7 Mathematics
Students enter Grade 7 with a wide range of interests and abilities in Mathematics. With this in mind,
you will be offered opportunities for challenge and remediation throughout each unit of study. The main
objectives of this course are to strengthen your basic numerical skills with whole numbers, integers
and fractions, while introducing you to new algebraic and geometric concepts. In addition to developing
computational skills, emphasis will be placed, whenever possible, on applications and problem solving.
In this course, you will use experiments to model situations and predict outcomes, and study how
probabilities can be determined through tables, organized lists and tree diagrams. You will learn how
the language of algebra is used to generalize patterns and relationships and how algebra is used as a
tool to solve various problems. In the geometry unit, you will explore and develop relationships among
the angles within triangles and the intersection of lines. In the measurement units, you will develop and
then apply procedures and formulae for finding measures of length, area, surface area and volume.
GRADE 8
Grade 8 Mathematics
How many times have you heard: “Math is more than a subject we learn in school. Math is every
breath we take and every second of the day. From the moment we wake up in the morning, math is at
the core of everything we do.” Put your thinking cap on, because in the Grade 8 Math course, you will
discover why this is said. Over the course of the year, you will work through the five strands of math
knowledge. Fractions, decimals, integers and percents will be studied and expressed in a variety of
forms. The discovery will be made as to why/how algebra uses numbers and symbols to communicate
ideas. You will come to understand why probability is considered to be the mathematics of chance
and that statistics is the science of collecting facts and making predications based on the facts. With
the investigation of the size, shape and positioning of 2D shapes and 3D figures, you will recognize
that geometry is used daily by almost everyone and that measurement is all around us. Emphasis will
be placed on developing your numeracy and problem-solving skills. Several web-based mathematics
programs are incorporated into the course including Geometer’s Sketchpad, Wired Math and
Mathletics. Foundation skills will first be strengthened, and then a number of culminating performance
tasks that reflect real-life mathematics applications will be performed. Assessment will also include
unit tests, checks for understanding, numeracy scales and projects. Your progress will be measured
with not just how you “answered” a math problem, but the problem-solving approach with which and
how you came up with the answer.