Monthly Update - September
Welcome to a brand new school year. Please feel free to contact me anything related to math or student learning in general.
We'll start off the year with Coordinates and Design.
Assessment
A typical Unit’s assessment will consist of one unmarked “Quick Quiz” designed to determine and correct student understanding before summative assessment. This summative assessment will consist of a Unit Quiz that will count towards final marks.
Grades in Math are cumulative and continuously build as the year progresses. Each report card mark will be a reflection of the entire year’s performance.
Grade Weighting
Unit Quizzes / Enrichment Projects 80 %
- If a Unit Project is done instead of instruction, then it and the Unit Quiz will be weighted equally
Large-Scale Projects 10 %
Year End Final Exam 10 %
Unit Enrichment
It’s going to be an interesting year due to a couple of unique circumstances. While the elementary math curriculum has been updated in the last couple of years, the junior high one has not. That has led to significant overlap between the province-assigned Grade 6 and Grade 7 math concepts. The other unique circumstance is the lingering effects of our time with at-home learning, which has left a few knowledge gaps that still show up from time to time.
In order to address these issues, the course this year will look a bit different. Each topic that is part of the Math 7 curriculum will of course still be covered, but I will use extensive pre-testing to see who has already mastered each outcome. Those students who show a mastery of most of the outcomes in a given unit will instead work on enrichment-based unit projects. These students might also be given outcome-specific catch-up assignments if one or two skills need revisiting.
Students who show that they would still benefit from a more traditional instructional approach will be taught the unit as usual, with teacher-led instruction and assigned coursework.
All of this will be done on a unit-by-unit basis, so there will be a fair amount of pre-testing, and your child may switch between project-based and instruction-based learning depending on the results for each unit.
Math 7 Curriculum Link: Link
Math 7 Online Textbook: Link