Grade 11/12 Mathematics courses

To graduate you will need at least one of the following classes

(a Mathematics 11 or 12)

Pre-Calculus 11

Pre-Calculus 11 is a busy and challenging course. This course requires a strong foundational knowledge of the Foundations and Pre-Calculus Math 10 course. It is significantly more demanding and requires consistent effort and analytical thinking in comparison to Math 10.
This course is designed to provide students with the mathematical understandings and critical-thinking skills identified for entry into post-secondary programs that require the study of theoretical calculus. This course is intended for students considering direct entry into mathematics, sciences, engineering, medicine, or commerce.
Concepts that will be explored include roots and powers, radical operations and equations, solving quadratic equations, analyzing quadratic functions, trigonometry, operations with rational expressions and solving rational equations, and financial literacy.
Students will need to devote a minimum of 45 minutes of work time outside of the classroom daily to achieve desired results in this course.
This course will be evaluated through self-assessment, assignments, quizzes (independent and collaborative), tests and a final exam.

Pre-Calculus 12

Pre-Calculus 12 is a busy and challenging course. This course requires a strong foundational knowledge of the pre-calculus 11 course. It is significantly more demanding and requires consistent effort and analytical thinking in comparison to the pre-calculus 11.

This course is designed to provide students with the mathematical understandings and critical-thinking skills identified for entry into post-secondary programs that require the study of theoretical calculus. This course is intended for students considering direct entry into mathematics, sciences, engineering, medicine, or commerce.

Concepts that will be explored include relations and function (composition and transformations), graphing and analyzing exponential, logarithm, polynomial, radical, rational and sinusoidal functions, solving trigonometric equations and proving trigonometric identities.
Students will need to devote a minimum of an hour of work time outside of the classroom daily to achieve desired results in this course.
This course will be evaluated through self-assessment, assignments, quizzes (independent and collaborative), tests and a final exam

Foundations of Math 11

This builds on skills and knowledge achieved in Foundations and Pre-Calculus Math 10.

This course is designed to provide students with the mathematical understandings and critical-thinking skills identified for post-secondary studies for programs such as social sciences, humanities, and fine arts; all which do not require the study of theoretical calculus.

Students can take this course alone or in preparation for Pre-Calculus 11
Concepts that will be explored include probability and statistical analysis including standard deviation and bell curves, quadratic functions: graphing, and solving using factoring and the quadratic equation, systems of linear inequalities: solving and graphing, reasoning methods: deductive and inductive, angle properties associated with parallel lines and regular polynomial shapes, finally trigonometry associated with the sine and cosine laws.

This course will be evaluated through individual and group work, self-assessment, assignments, projects, quizzes (independent and collaborative), tests and final exams.

Foundations of Math 12

This builds on skills and knowledge achieved from Foundations of Math 11 or Pre-Calculus 11.

Students can take this course alone or in preparation for Pre-Calculus 12
Concepts that will be explored include financial literacy: borrowing money using financial calculators (solving compound interest questions, loans, mortgages, credit card and lines of credit), polynomial functions: graphing and solving for intercepts, minimum and maximum values, number of turning points, and end behaviors, counting methods: permutations, factorials, combinations, probability: odds, mutually exclusive/independent events and permutations/combinations, exponential and logarithmic functions as well as graphing sinusoidal functions.
This course will be evaluated through individual and group work, self-assessment, assignments, projects, quizzes (independent and collaborative), tests and final exams.

Calculus 12

This course builds on skills and knowledge achieved from Pre-Calculus 12. This course is intended for students considering direct entry into mathematics, sciences, engineering, medicine, or commerce.

This course is designed to provide students with an introduction to fundamental concepts and applications in the field of Calculus. Students will be introduced to and begin to prepare for the basic concepts of first year post-secondary calculus. This course emphasizes a multi-representational approach to calculus, with concepts, results, and problems being expressed graphically, numerically, analytically, and verbally. While demonstrating the relevance and necessity of Calculus in science and other fields, the course will leave students with the strong background necessary to complete a first-year university Calculus course.

Concepts that will be explored include functions and graphs, limits (left and right limits, limits to infinity, and continuity), differentiation (rate of change, differentiation rules, higher order, implicit, and applications), and integration (approximations, fundamental theorem of calculus, methods of integration, and applications).
Students will need to devote a minimum of an hour of work time outside of the classroom daily to achieve desired results in this course.
This course will be evaluated through self-assessment, assignments, quizzes (independent and collaborative), tests and a final exam

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