Department of Mathematics
St. Edmund Campion Secondary School
Course Code: MAT1L1
Course Name: Mathematics
Level:
Grade 9, Locally Developed
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 for Grade 11 and 12
Workplace Preparation courses. Whenever possible, ideas will be presented in a 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 wherever appropriate. Assessment and evaluation will be
done using a wide variety of strategies.
Overall Course Expectations:
Developing & Consolidating Money Sense
• interpret, write, and round decimal numbers with understanding in everyday money situations;
• solve problems involving money, drawn from everyday situations;
• communicate information about money concepts;
•.use literacy skills to obtain and communicate information about money sense;
Developing & Consolidating Concepts in Measurement
• estimate and measure length, capacity, and mass, in order to consolidate understanding of the metric system;
• estimate and measure length, using the imperial system;
• solve problems, carry out investigations, estimate and measure, using metric units, to consolidate understanding
of perimeter, area and volume;
• communicate information about measurement concepts;
• use literacy skills to obtain and communicate information about measurement concepts;
Developing & Consolidating Concepts in Proportional Reasoning
• determine relationships among fractions, percentages, ratios, and rates by constructing diagrams, building
models, and estimating measurements;
• solve problems drawn from everyday situations involving percent, ratio, rate, and fractions;
• communicate information about proportional reasoning
• use literacy skills (reading, writing, listening, and speaking) to obtain and communicate information about
proportional reasoning.
Efforts will be made to meet the individual learning needs of students to promote student success
with respect to meeting these expectations.
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Parent’s/Guardian’s Signature: _________________________ Date: _______________
Course Outline:
Resources:
The course will use a variety of resources. Any
texts and all other resources assigned to each
student are the responsibility of the student. Any
damage incurred will result in payment for
replacement and/or damage.
(all timelines are approximate)
Unit
Unit
Unit
Unit
Unit
Unit
1:
2:
3:
4:
5:
6:
Intro to Working with Money
Ratio, Proportion & Percent
Extending Money Concepts
Metric Measurement
Imperial Measurement
Summative Evaluation
10
15
15
15
15
10
days
days
days
days
days
days
Summative Assessment will be administered towards the end of
the course and will include a culminating task worth 15% of
the overall grade and a final examination also worth 15% of
the final grade.
Evaluation Policies
1. Student marks will be determined by evaluating process & product according to 4
categories (see below) & 4 levels of the Achievement Chart as found in the Ministry Policy
document for Mathematics.
Evaluation Structure:
Knowledge/Understanding
Application
Communication
Thinking/Inquiry
30%
30%
20%
20%
Term work = 70% of the final mark. Summative work = 30% of the final mark.
2. Feedback will also be provided for student learning skills. Working independently,
teamwork, organization, work habits/homework, and initiative are assessed apart from
student achievement in the four categories outlined above and will conform to the coding:
E – Excellent
G – Good
S – Satisfactory
N - Needs Improvement
3. Assignments submitted after the due date established by the teacher will receive a
penalty in accord with our school evaluation policy as outlined in the agenda. No
assignment will be accepted once a teacher has returned marked assignments.
4. Should a student miss an evaluation due to a legitimate absence, a note shall be provided
to the teacher the day of the student’s return to class stating the reason for absence and
the parent/guardian’s awareness that the student has missed an evaluation. Makeup will
be at the teacher’s discretion. Should such documentation not be provided, a mark
of zero will be assigned.
May God bless your efforts this semester!