Learning The revised curriculum supports students learning mathematics with understanding and...

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Learning The revised curriculum supports students learning mathematics with understanding and actively building new knowledge from experience and prior knowledge.

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The revised curriculum supports students learning mathematics with understanding and actively building new knowledge from experience and prior knowledge.

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Conceptual Understanding

• Conceptual understanding refers to an integrated and functional grasp of mathematics.

• It is more than knowing isolated facts and procedures.

Eg. Multiplication the Algebraic Way

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Conceptual Understanding

• Conceptual understanding supports retention. When facts and procedures are learned in a connected way, they are easier to remember and use and can be reconstructed when forgotten.

Hiebert and Wearne 1996; Bruner 1960, Katona 1940

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Balancing Conceptual Understanding and Procedural Fluency

• Pitting procedural fluency against conceptual understanding creates a false dichotomy.

• Understanding makes learning skills easier, less susceptible to common errors and less prone to forgetting.

• Also, a certain level of skill is required to learn many mathematical concepts with understanding

Hiebert and Carpenter 1992

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Making Connections

1999 Curriculum-determine, from examination of patterns, the exponent rules for multiplying and dividing monomials and the exponent rule for the power of a power, and apply….

-determine the meaning of negative exponents and of zero as an exponent from activities involving graphing, using technology, and from activities involving patterning

COURSE: GRADE 9 Applied and Academic

Revision-describe the relationship between the algebraic and geometric representations of a single variable term up to degree three ( i.e., length, which is one dimensional, can be represented by x; area, which is two dimensional can be represented by x^2, and volume, which is three dimensional can be ….

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Continuum of Learning: Support Resource for Draft Revision Spring 2005

Number Sense and NumerationGRADE 1: read, represent, order, and compare whole numbers to 50, and investigate money amounts and fractions;

GRADE 5: read, represent, order, and compare whole numbers to 100 000, decimal numbers to hundredths, proper and improper fractions, and mixed numbers;

GRADE 2: read, represent, order, and compare whole numbers to 100, and represent money amounts and fractions using concrete materials

GRADE 6: read, represent, order, and compare whole numbers to 1 000 000, decimal numbers to thousandths, proper and improper fractions, and mixed numbers

GRADE 3: read, represent, order, and compare whole numbers to 1000, and demonstrate their understandings about money and fractions

GRADE 7: represent, order, and compare numbers, including integers

GRADE 4: read, represent, order, and compare whole numbers to 10 000, decimal numbers to tenths, and simple fractions, and expand their understandings about money

GRADE 8:represent, order, and compare equivalent representations of numbers including those involving exponents

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Developing Concepts Across the Grades

1997 Curriculum

Proportional Reasoning

Draft Revision Spring 2005

Proportional Reasoning

Grade 7: No Specific Reference Grade 7:

Number Sense and Numeration

Proportional Relationships

Grade 8: Under Applications Grade 8:

Number Sense and Numeration

Proportional Relationships

Grade 9 Applied:

Number Sense and Algebra

Solving Numerical Problems

Grade 9 Applied:

Number Sense and Algebra:

Proportional Reasoning

Grade 10 Applied:

Proportional Reasoning

Grade 10 Applied:

Measurement and Trigonometry:

Solving Problems Involving Similar Triangles

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Developing Concepts - Volume

Grade 4Measure Volume

Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 7

Gr 8

Gr 9

Grade 9 Grade 9 Grade 10

Academic Applied AppliedSolve problems Develop formulas Solve problems

Involving optimal for the volumes of involving volumes

volume. Solve the pyramids, cones of prisms, pyramids

max and min vol and spheres. cylinders, cones,

pyramids, cones spheres, and a

and spheres. combination.

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Your turn to put the puzzle together

Gr 7 Gr 8 Gr 9 Gr 10

Your turn to investigate expectations from grade 7, 8, 9 and 10 that build on one another.

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On your tables you will find a green sheet that has an overall

expectation. Determine the prerequisite expectation(s) from Grade 10 to Grade 7 and remain in the same pathway. Use the

organizer and chart paper at your table. Post on the back wall

when completed.