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Mathematics

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TVO Learn is designed to meet each student where they are on their learning journey. Learning Activities are comprehensive and require guided instruction from an adult, while Resources for Learning, Apply the Learning prompts and Vocabulary lists work well to reinforce specific skills or to enable independent exploration of a subject. Use these helpful tips to get the most from TVO Learn.

Curriculum Overview

Throughout this grade, in order to promote a positive identity as a math learner, to foster well-being and the ability to learn, build resilience, and thrive, students will apply, to the best of their ability, a variety of social-emotional learning skills to support their use of the mathematical processes and their learning in connection with the expectations in the other five strands of the mathematics curriculum.

Students continue to build healthy relationship skills. They will use data in an infographic to communicate and tell a story and build awareness about others. This will help them understand things they have in common with their peers and what makes different groups unique.

The mathematics curriculum is divided into six strands:

  • Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) Skills in Mathematics and the Mathematical Processes
  • Number
  • Algebra
  • Data
  • Spatial Sense
  • Financial Literacy

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Learning Activities

Learning Activities provide opportunity for deeper exploration of a subject. Organized by grade and topic (or strand), students should be guided through each Learning Activity by an adult. Before clicking on a topic to prepare for or begin this guided instruction, be sure to read these helpful tips about how to get the most out of TVO Learn.

Learning Activities provide opportunity for deeper exploration of a subject. Organized by grade and topic (or strand), students should be guided through each Learning Activity by an adult. Before clicking on a topic to prepare for or begin this guided instruction, be sure to read these helpful tips about how to get the most out of TVO Learn.

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Students use scientific notation such as 5.46 × 106 to understand, represent and compare very large and small Numbers more easily, which is often required in Science. Students use fractions, decimals and percents interchangeably, and should be able to recall square Numbers to 144 and their square roots. Students solve problems that involve proportions (for example, determining the percentage increase or decrease in the attendance of a show) and whole Numbers, fractions, decimals, integers and exponents.

Learning Activity 1
Scientific Notation Investigation
Learning Activity 2
Rational and Irrational Numbers
Learning Activity 3
Adding and Subtracting Integers
Learning Activity 4
Multiplying and Dividing Integers
Learning Activity 5
Square Roots
Learning Activity 6
Adding and Subtracting Fractions
Learning Activity 7
Multiplication of Fractions
Learning Activity 8
Division of Fractions
Learning Activity 9
BEDMAS
Learning Activity 10
Understanding Proportional Relationships
Learning Activity 11
Proportional Relationships in Real Life
Learning Activity 12
Fractions, Decimals, Percents. Oh My!

Students continue to develop their understanding of patterns, including those that involve integers. They use Algebraic notation, such as, s = d/t, to represent the relationship between speed, distance and time. They solve Algebraic equations involving multiple terms, integers and decimal numbers. Students will write code to create a line or curve that falls between the greatest number of data points. They also use modelling for real-life situations, such as making predictions about future fundraisers based on the funds raised from past fundraisers.

Learning Activity 1
Extending Patterns
Learning Activity 2
Representing Patterns
Learning Activity 3
Algebraic Expressions and Patterns
Learning Activity 4
Making Predictions
Learning Activity 5
Algebraic Expressions
Learning Activity 6
Solving Algebraic Equations
Learning Activity 7
Monomials and Binomials
Learning Activity 8
Interpreting Graphs
Learning Activity 9
Solving Equations with Decimals
Learning Activity 10
Inequalities
Learning Activity 11
Graphing Inequalities
Learning Activity 12
Coding and Analyzing Data

Students will continue to build their Data skills. They will analyse Data that is presented in more complex ways, such as in scatter plots, that show the relationship between two variables. In addition, students continue to increase their understanding of probability by comparing the outcomes of more complex experiments.

Learning Activity 1
Different Types of Graphs
Learning Activity 2
Creating Different Types of Graphs
Learning Activity 3
One-Variable and Two-Variable Data
Learning Activity 4
Scatter Plots and Two-Variable Data
Learning Activity 5
Identifying Correlations in Two-Variable Data
Learning Activity 6
Misleading Graphs
Learning Activity 7
Relationships and Scatter Plots
Learning Activity 8
Presenting Data Through an Infographic
Learning Activity 9
Theoretical and Experimental Probability
Learning Activity 10
Tree Diagrams and Sample Space Diagrams
Learning Activity 11
Independent and Dependent Events
Learning Activity 12
Using Venn Diagrams to Show Probability

Students continue to develop spatial sense as they study right-angle triangles. They will learn that if two side lengths are known, then the length of the third can be figured out without measuring it, using the Pythagorean Theory. Students learn how to calculate unknown angles by applying the angle properties of intersecting and parallel lines. Students also build their understanding of very large units such as a terabyte and very small units like a nanosecond that are used in current technologies.

Learning Activity 1
Tessellations
Learning Activity 2
Perspective Views of Three-Dimensional Models
Learning Activity 3
Scale Drawings
Learning Activity 4
Translations, Reflections, Rotations, and Dilations
Learning Activity 5
Very Large and Very Small Units
Learning Activity 6
Transversals
Learning Activity 7
Interior Angles of Polygons
Learning Activity 8
Circumference and Area of a Circle
Learning Activity 9
Area and Perimeter of Composite Two-Dimensional Shapes
Learning Activity 10
Surface Area and Volume of Prisms and Cylinders
Learning Activity 11
Surface Area and Volume of Three-dimensional Composite Objects
Learning Activity 12
Pythagorean Theorem

Students will learn to create a plan to reach financial goals and identify ways to maintain balanced budgets. Students compare different ways that consumers can get value for their money when spending, such as using reward programs or taking advantage of sales. Students investigate the concepts of simple and compound interest using technology, (for example, a spreadsheet program) and explain how interest affects long-term financial planning.

Learning Activity 1
Two Sides to Every Coin
Learning Activity 2
Setting Financial Goals
Learning Activity 3
Exploring Mortgages and Capital Gains
Learning Activity 4
Did You Account For That?
Learning Activity 5
Exploring Ways to Pay
Learning Activity 6
Converting Currency
Learning Activity 7
Advantages and Disadvantages of Currency Exchange
Learning Activity 8
How to be a Critical Consumer
Learning Activity 9
Exploring Simple Interest
Learning Activity 10
Exploring Compound Interest
Learning Activity 11
Choosing the Right Credit Card
Learning Activity 12
You're the Financial Advisor!

Resources for Learning

Chosen by TVO educators, these resources support the curriculum outlined above. Review the below list of options along with the activities. Then, read, watch, listen or play to build understanding and knowledge.

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Complete the suggested activities using these resources and other TVO resources.

Apply the Learning

Complete these activities to apply and practice the learning. This step is important.

  • Create and solve problems that involve proportions (for example, determine the percentage increase or decrease in the attendance of a sporting event) and whole numbers, fractions, decimals, integers and exponents.

  • Create a plan/budget to save to make a special purchase to help you manage money to reach your financial goals. Identify ways to maintain balanced budgets.
  • When out shopping, estimate the amount of a purchase, calculate the tax and check your change.
  • Use a T-chart to compare different ways that consumers can get value for their money when spending, such as using reward programs or taking advantage of sales.
  • Investigate the concepts of simple and compound interest using technology, (for example, a spreadsheet program) and explain how interest affects long-term financial planning.
  • Use algebraic notation, such as, s = d/t, to represent the relationship between speed, distance and time.
  • Find a triangular shape object in your home, use the Pythagorean Theory, to show that if two side lengths are known, then the length of the third can be figured out without measuring it.
  • How can you explain to someone what is as a terabyte and a nanosecond that are used.
  • Create your own definitions for 20 math words in the vocabulary list.

Vocabulary

Review this list of vocabulary associated with the curriculum. Practice spelling, research definitions, and find these vocabulary words when engaging with the TVO resources or completing learning activities.

Students should understand and be able to apply these words in context.

 

  • Number
  • Algebra
  • Data
  • Spatial Sense
  • Financial Literacy

compare

decimals

fractions

number

percents

represent

scientific notation

algebra

algebraic equations

code

curve

data points

decimal numbers

integers

line

mathematical modelling

multiple terms

patterns

predictions

real-life situations

analyze

data

probability

relationship

scatter plots

two variables

angles

calculate

intersecting

length

line

measuring

nanosecond

parallel

properties

Pythagorean Theory

right-angle triangles

side lengths

spatial sense

terabyte

balanced budgets

budget

compound interest

consumer

financial goals

financial literacy

interest

long-term financial planning

money

plan

spending

simple interest

spreadsheet

interest

value

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