Ministry Course Code:  MMA–09

Description:

This course is a continuation, in a more formal manner, of the work begun in grade 8, and will be taken by all grade 9 students except those who have qualified for Mathematics 9 Enriched.

Objectives Include:

• • • Developing concepts concretely, pictorially and symbolically.
    • Developing mathematical communication skills.
    • Developing basic numeracy skills by encouraging students to perform calculations without a calculator.

Course Topics Include:

• Numerical and spatial reasoning
• Logic
• Patterns to solve puzzles and games
• Financial literacy – types of income and simple budgets and transactions
• Powers, rational numbers and order of operations
• Square roots – estimation skills
• Two-variable linear relations, using graphing, interpolation, and extrapolation
• Solving multi-step one-variable linear equations
• Simple operations with polynomials of degree two or less
• Spatial proportional reasoning such as scale diagrams and similar triangles
• Probability and statistics in society such as sampling techniques and misleading stat

Workbook: Theory and Problems for Mathematics 9