Credit Value:
1.0
Course Description:
This course enables students to broaden their understanding of relationships and extend their problem-solving and algebraic skills through investigation, the effective use of technology, and abstract reasoning. Students will explore quadratic relations and their applications; solve and apply linear systems; verify properties of geometric figures using analytic geometry, and investigate the trigonometry of right and acute triangles. Students will reason mathematically and communicate their thinking as they solve multi-step problems.
Prerequisite:
Principles of Mathematics Grade 10, Academic
Ministry Policy Documents:
The Ontario Curriculum, Grades 11 and 12: Mathematics, 2007 (revised)
Text Resources:
There are no required texts for the course. However, the activities include practice questions from two textbooks.
- Mathematics 11 David Zimmer, Chris Kirkpatrick, Ralph Montesanto, Christine Suurtamm, Susanne Trew, Dan Charbonneau, Robert McLeish. Nelson ISBN 0-17-615757-3
http://www.nelsonschoolcentral.com/cgi-bin/lansaweb?webapp=WSUBDSC+webrtn=subdsc+F%28LW3CATURL%29=S_M_GRADE_11 - Mathematics 11 - George Knill, Barbara J. Canton, Fred Ferneyhough, Linda h, O. Michael G. Hamilton, Louis Lim, John Rodger, Michael Webb. McGraw-Hill Ryerson ISBN-0-07-552910-6 http://www.mcgrawhill.ca/school/booksites/mathematics+11/index.php
Required Software/Equipment:
Throughout the course, technology will be used for investigations and performance tasks. Students will need the following: Adobe Acrobat Reader; Geometer's Sketchpad; Sun Java; Word or Open Office. Web Resources: Adobe; Atomic Learning; Quicktime; Macromedia; Sun Java Download Centre.