by Jonathan ADAMS | Sep 28, 2017 | Grade 12, Secondary Maths, The Grades
Differential calculus is hard; integral calculus is harder… but they are both so cool! Grade 12 students have been working hard to visualize volumes of 3D rotated curves. Calculating these without the use of simple geometry was impossible prior to the work of...
by Todd DAVIS | Sep 28, 2017 | Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Secondary Maths, Secondary Science, The Grades
G7 & G8 STEAM students are getting to know the “Design Cycle” as they take further steps toward building their own marble roller coaster. Students are already making prototype designs as you can see Saad (G7) sharing his first try in the photo below....
by Jonathan ADAMS | Sep 14, 2017 | Grade 11, Secondary Maths, The Grades
Math Studies students are wrapping up the first chapter of he year: Logic. What makes a logical argument valid? What is a tautology? When is a logically valid argument persuasive? Students are exploring their thinking about argumentation and honing their skills of...
by Eletia THOMAS | Sep 14, 2017 | Grade 9, Secondary Maths
Grade 9 finished up our work on Sets & Venn diagrams this week and started looking at relationships and how we represent them mathematically. A reminder that students have their Sets & Venn diagrams test on Tuesday and need to have purchased their graphics...
by Todd DAVIS | Sep 14, 2017 | Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Secondary Maths, The Grades
This week G7 students discovered some amazing facts about our founders of mathematics. We are finding that history mixes nicely with mathematics and science. We learned about mathematicians like Archimedes (born 287 BCE), who designed a large screw that could be used...
by Matthew TAYLOR | Sep 14, 2017 | Grade 11, Secondary Maths
Grade 11 Math Sl students have began working through Arithmetic Sequences and the different ways these can be represented. They will go on to look at geometric sequences, series and the binomial expansion.
