COURSE OUTLINE

Primary Resource:

Supplied Lesson Booklets.

General Course Outcomes:

Through Knowledge and Employability courses, students become:

· active and responsible citizens,

· achieve their educational and career goals,

· improve quality of life for themselves and their families

· and positively impact their communities.

Unit A Topics:

Unit A - Estimating Cost, Calculating Cost, Looking at Receipts, Verifying Costs, Calculating Cost of Multiple Items, Calculating Unit Prices, Using Coupons, Writing a Cheque, Compare Unit Prices, Calculating Percentages, Calculate Percentage Discount, Sales Tax & Tips

Unit B Topics:

Choosing an Occupation, Rate of Pay, Commission, Convert hours and minutes into hours, Time Sheets, Scheduling, Maps, Understanding T4 slips & Analyzing Graphs

Unit C Topics

Budgets, Using Spreadsheets, Payment Plans, Loans, Credit Cards, Investments, Bus Schedules, Probability of Lotteries, Equivalent Fractions, Adding Fractions, Multiplying Fractions, Unit Conversions, Measuring Tools, Circumference, Area & Volume Calculations & Angles

Required items:

· Basic Calculator

· Pencil

· Geometry Kit- Protractor is needed for the last unit

Unit Themes:

A Shopping & Dining

B World of Work

C Around the Home

Course Evaluation:

Daily Assignments & Activities 75%

Unit Reviews 25%

Student Responsibilities

1. It is your responsibility as a student to have all of your homework completed prior to class; including checking and corrections. (if possible)

2. It is your responsibility as a student to obtain notes missed due to an absence from class. You are always responsible for concepts that were covered while you were away. (I must insist that you obtain the missed notes, and try the corresponding homework assignment before you come and ask me to show you what you missed.)

3. Expect to write a missed quiz or exam the day you return to class at either lunch or after school.

4. It is your responsibility as a student to ask a question when you don’t understand.

5. It is your responsibility as a student to help create a positive learning environment in the classroom.

General Tips for Math

1. Always ask a question when you FIRST become confused – never go home with the plan to “figure it out later.”

2. Use class time productively; listen actively and take clear notes.

3. Math is a skill best acquired by practice – do ALL of your homework EVERY NIGHT!

4. Predict or estimate answers, and then check them against your final answer. This will help avoid most careless errors.

5. Show all of your work, step by step, to avoid mistakes and gain part marks even if your final answer is incorrect.

6. Extra help is available by appointment. Students must have specific questions and have caught up on any missed notes before extra help will be given.

Classroom Expectations

1. POSITIVE PARTICIPATION is essential to this class. Students are expected to interact with each other, support and encourage academic achievement, orally explain and elaborate upon concepts being learned and be accountable for their learning.

2. RESPECT for others is crucial and expected.

3. Please arrive to class ON TIME and prepared to work with your workbook, your binder/notebook, a pen/pencil for writing and one of a different color for corrections or highlighting, and a calculator. If students need to leave class to get materials they must get a late slip to return back to class.

4. Hand in all assignments on the date specified. Assignments that are late without a valid extension will be accepted up to 3 days after the due date and will be penalized 33% /day.

5. Missed tests must be completed within 3 days of the examination date and on your own time. You are responsible to make arrangements to make up the test. Quizzes and tests missed due to an unexcused absence will receive a grade of zero.

6. Phones cannot be used as your calculator.

Office hours

extra help is: 11:35 am -12:15pm (Lunch) Monday – Friday

Any time AFTER SCHOOL BY APPOINTMENT

Please feel free to contact me:

780-865-2820

pweidman@ecsrd.ca