Grade 12 Math options

To graduate you will need at least one Math 11 course. Math 11 and 12 courses prepare students for different post-secondary opportunities.

Math Options

If students want to take 2 Math courses in a year, they should choose the courses as a package. This will ensure that the courses are placed into their schedule in the correct order. Students going into Grade 12 will have any Grade 11 options open as well as the following (for full course descriptions, see lower down on this page):

Foundations 12 and then Pre-Calculus 12
Pre-Calculus 12 then Calculus 12
Foundations 12 only
Pre-Calculus 12 only

Pre-Calculus 12

4 credit course

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 12

4 credit course

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

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 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

4 credit course

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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