Term 1 Units of Study
Throughout September, lessons will be designed to assist students in building comfort with the instructional strategies, models, and growth mindset central to the intermediate mathematics classroom. Examples are:
Term 2 Units of Study
Number Sense and Numeration: (January)
Throughout September, lessons will be designed to assist students in building comfort with the instructional strategies, models, and growth mindset central to the intermediate mathematics classroom. Examples are:
- Number Talks, and Growth Mindset in the intermediate math classroom.
- Open Questions for collaborative problem-solving
- Bansho, Gallery Walk, & Congress sharing and consolidation
- Aye/Nay, exit passes, Google Classroom reflections
- Online tools: Mathies, Homework Help, Khan Academy, Edugains
- Number lines, arrays, rate tables, factor trees, manipulatives
- representing and ordering values (decimals and fractions) from one billion to hundredths;
- adding and subtracting simple fractions:
- applying order of operations in expressions with brackets;
- relating fractions, decimals, and percents
- collecting and organizing categorical, discrete, and continuous data;
- displaying data in relative frequency tables and circle graphs; identifying bias in data;
- relating changes in data to changes in central tendency;
- making inferences based on data;
- sorting and classifying triangles and quadrilaterals by geometric properties; constructing angle bisectors and perpendicular bisectors; investigating relationships among congruent shapes;
- relating enlarging and reducing to similar shapes; comparing similar and congruent shapes;
- constructing parallel, perpendicular, and intersecting lines;
- converting between metric units, including converting between square centimetres and square metres;
- developing the area relationship for a trapezoid;
Term 2 Units of Study
Number Sense and Numeration: (January)
- representing squares and square roots;
- dividing whole numbers by simple fractions and decimals;
- multiplying and dividing decimal numbers to thousandths by one-digit whole numbers;
- solving problems involving whole-number percents and unit rates
- developing and applying the formula for the volume of a prism;
- determining and applying surface-area relationships for prisms; relating millilitres and cubic centimetres
- performing and describing dilatations;
- tiling a plane;
- plotting points in all four quadrants
- representing linear growing patterns; representing patterns algebraically;
- modelling real-life relationships involving constant rates graphically and algebraically;
- translating phrases, using algebraic expressions; finding the term in a pattern algebraically when given any term number;
- solving linear equations using concrete materials or inspection and guess and check;
- investigating real-world applications of probability;
- determining the theoretical probability of two independent events;
- representing ordering, adding and subtracting integers;