Course plan

This course plan is always being revised.  The activities are grouped in cycles.  At the end of each cycle is a one or two day evaluation. By the end of the course, each of the main ideas and strands in the course will have been studied and evaluated at least twice before the summative period. Please see this overview of the structure of the cycles.

The activities listed below vary in type and length.  Some may take two or three days.  Some require students to work at their desks with manipulatives while others are done at the whiteboard.  Any activities which seem worksheet driven are actually done at the whiteboards. At the end of most classes students have 10 minutes to journal.  The daily work is posted on a class blog or padlet.  The textbook used is Nelson Advanced Functions, 2009.  

We also lag the homework so they get to practice the concepts over several days.  Here is a course plan we have used which shows how the lagged homework is organized.   

The course plan below shows how we organized the cycles recently and has links to activities and lessons.  As of May 2016 we are still updating the links and the expectation grid.  You can find more links at Spiralling in MHF4U website which is the former version of our course.  We have referenced links which we borrowed from open sites.  

Examples of student work for many of the activities can be found at http://mhf4uoverwijk.blogspot.ca/

We welcome your feedback and ideas at janice.bernstein@ocdsb.ca and lynn.pacarynuk@ocdsb.ca.