by Jonathan ADAMS | Feb 2, 2017 | Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Secondary Maths, The Grades
Grade 10 and 12 students have been cramming all week, working through practice exam papers. Students in grade 10 already took their first exam… two more to go. Grade 11 students have been introduced to the Math IA for their courses. During The next week, they...
by Jonathan ADAMS | Jan 26, 2017 | Grade 8, Secondary Maths, Secondary ToK
Mr Davis has been away at the MUN conference with most of the older secondary students which gave me the joy of watching the very enthusiastic grade 8 students complete a competitive challenge called an Algebra Chain. One team (Istiaq, Courtney and Yann) raced ahead,...
by Todd DAVIS | Jan 19, 2017 | Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Secondary Maths, The Grades
This week was all about discovery for the G7 math students. Using Geoboards, together we developed a list of as many different types of triangles as we could find on a 9×9 Geoboard (see photos below). There were many ways of learning from these triangles, like...
by Jonathan ADAMS | Jan 14, 2017 | Grade 10, Secondary Maths
Grade 10 will wrap up the semester with a brief chapter on sets and Venn diagrams. They should be investing most of their time into revising for the mock exams in February.
by Jonathan ADAMS | Jan 14, 2017 | Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Secondary Maths
You may know these as animal crackers or zoo cookies. It seems reasonable to package all sorts of animals together in the same bag or box, but what are the consequences of mixing so many carnivores in with the herbivores? In Math Studies, we are looking at the...
by Jonathan ADAMS | Dec 14, 2016 | Grade 11, Grade 12, Secondary Maths, The Grades
Math Studies students learn to draw lines of fit by hand through correlated data. They also learn how to calculate the regression line (line of best fit), though in practice this would be done by a calculator or spreadsheet program. Once obtained, a line of fit can be...
