COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course provides students who have experienced significant difficulties in previous Mathematics courses an opportunity to obtain sufficient background and skill development, to prepare them from Grade 11 Workplace Preparation course. Whenever possible ideas will be presented in real life context, providing students with the opportunity to explore, organize, interpret and use mathematical models to solve problems. Technology and manipulative materials will be used where possible and appropriate.

COURSE STRANDS/UNITS: (not necessarily in order)

Develop and Consolidating Money Sense (MS)

• Write and Rounding decimal Numbers in everyday money situations;
• Solve problems with money from everyday situations;
• Communicate information about money concepts and money sense.

Develop Concepts in Proportional Reasoning (PR)

• Determine relationships between fractions, percentages, ratios, rates
• Solving problems drawn from everyday situations involving percent, ratio, rate,ractions
• Communicate information about proportional reasoning concepts;

Develop and Consolidating Concepts in Measurement (MG)

• Estimate and measure length, capacity and mass in the metric system;
• Estimate and measure length, capacity and mass in the imperial system;
• Investigate and solve problems using metric units in the concepts of perimeter, area and volume.
• Communicate information about measurement concepts;