2013/2014 School Math 10-4/20-4 Course Outline

Year

Instructor: Miss Smordin Room: 170

Email: smordinf@wrps.ab.ca

Overview
Through Knowledge and Employability courses, students become active and responsible
citizens, achieve their educational and career goals, improve quality of life for themselves and
their families and positively impact their communities.

Goals of this course:

Provide students with practical applied opportunities to develop competencies necessary to meet
or exceed:
Senior high school credentials
Enter the workplace upon leaving school with employability and occupational skills that meet
industry standards
Make successful transitions to other courses or to further education and training
Become responsible and contributing members of society

Required Materials
 Mathematics for Knowledge and Employability Workbook - You will be given only one copy of
the Workbook when they arrive; if you lose that one you are responsible to purchase another one
 Scientific Calculator - to be supplied by the student

Other Available Resources

The following is a list of some good web site resources for Mathematics. Many of these allow
you to search by topic.
 http://forum.swarthmore.edu/dr.math/drmath.high.html
 http://www.ucc.vt.edu/stdysk/stdyhlp.html
 http://m_w.com/dictionary.htm
 http://www.britannica.com/

General Objectives and Timeline

Chapters Weigh Estimated

t Time

Chapter 1 Whole Numbers and Decimals 11% 7 classes

Chapter 2 Fractions 11% 9 classes

Chapter 3 Working with Data 11% 7 classes

Chapter 4 Patterns, Relationships, and Equations 11% 7 classes

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Chapter 5 Percents and Rates 11% 6 classes

Chapter 6 Length, Perimeter, Circumference, and Area 11% 9 classes

Chapter 7 Integers 11% 8 classes

Chapter 8 Temperature, Time, Mass, Capacity, and 12% 10 classes

Volume

Chapter 2-D and 3-D Geometry 11% 9 classes

10

Evaluation
The final course grade will be determined as follows.  Within chapters 1-10 (weighted in
class as listed above), you will find the following weightings:

Chapter Test 25%

Assignments 75%