WCDSB Course Calendar 2012-2013 - Wellington Catholic

Grade 12 Recreation andFitness Leadership(College Preparation – PLF 4C1)Prerequisite: Any Grade 11 or 12Open course in Health and PhysicalEducation.This course focuses on the development ofleadership and coordination skills related torecreational activities. Early in the semesterstudents will be expected to participate in abackcountry camping trip to help with thedevelopment of a leadership team. Students willacquire the knowledge and skills required to plan,organize, and implement recreational events. Theywill also learn how to promote the value of physicalfitness, personal well being, and personal safety toothers through mentoring. The course will preparestudents for college programs in recreational,leisure, and fitness leadership.Grade 12 Healthy Active LivingEducation (Open – PPL 4O1)Students will develop and implement personalphysical fitness plans. In addition, they will begiven opportunities to refine their decision-making,conflict-resolution, and interpersonal skills, with aview to enhancing their mental health and theirrelationships with others.interdisciplinarystudiesGrade 12 InterdisciplinaryStudies(University – IDC 4U1)Prerequisite: any university oruniversity/college preparationcourse.This course will help students develop andconsolidate the skills required for and knowledgeof different subjects and disciplines to solveproblems, make decisions, create personalmeaning, and present findings beyond the scopeof a single subject or discipline. Students willapply the principles and processes of inquiryand research to effectively use a range of print,electronic, and mass media resources, to analyzehistorical innovations and exemplary research,and to investigate real-life situations and careeropportunities in interdisciplinary endeavours. Theywill also assess their own cognitive and affectivestrategies, apply general skills in both familiar andnew contexts, create innovative products, andcommunicate new knowledge.MathematicsStudents will consolidate theirmathematical skills as they solveproblems and communicate theirthinking.Grade 9 Principles of Mathematics(Academic – MPM 1D1)This course enables students to develop anunderstanding of mathematical concepts relatedto algebra, analytic geometry, and measurementand geometry through investigation, the effectiveuse of technology, and abstract reasoning.Students will investigate relationships, which theywill then generalize as equations of lines, and willdetermine the connections between differentrepresentations of a linear relation. They willalso explore relationships that emerge from themeasurement of three-dimensional figures andtwo-dimensional shapes.Grade 9 Foundations ofMathematics(Applied – MFM 1P1)This course enables students to develop anunderstanding of mathematical concepts related tointroductory algebra, proportional reasoning, andmeasurement and geometry through investigation,the effective use of technology, and hands-onactivities. Students will investigate real-lifeexamples to develop various representations oflinear relations, and will determine the connectionsbetween the representations. They will also explorecertain relationships that emerge from themeasurement of three-dimensional figuresand two-dimensional shapes.Grade 9 Mathematics(LOCALLY DEVELOPED – MAT 1L1)This course emphasizes further development ofmathematical knowledge and skills to preparestudents for success in their everyday lives, inthe workplace, in the Grade 10 LDCC course,and in the Mathematics Grade 11 and Grade 12Workplace Preparation courses. The course isorganized by three strands related to moneysense, measurement, and proportional reasoning.In all strands, the focus is on developing andconsolidating key foundational mathematicalconcepts and skills by solving authentic,everyday problems.Grade 10 Principles of Mathematics(Academic – MPM 2D1)Prerequisite: MPM 1D1This course enables students to broaden theirunderstanding of relationships and extend theirproblem-solving and algebraic skills throughinvestigation, the effective use of technology, andabstract reasoning. Students will explore quadraticrelations and their applications, solve and applylinear systems, verify properties of geometricfigures using analytic geometry, and investigatethe trigonometry of right and acute triangles.Students will reason mathematically andcommunicate their thinking as they solvemulti-step problems.Grade 10 Foundations ofMathematics(Applied – MFM 2P1)Prerequisite: MPM 1D1 or MFM 1P1This course enables students to consolidate theirunderstanding of linear relations and extendtheir problem-solving and algebraic skills throughinvestigation, the effective use of technology, andhands-on activities. Students will develop andgraph equations in analytic geometry, solve andapply linear systems using real-life examples, andexplore and interpret graphs of quadratic relations.Students will investigate similar triangles, thetrigonometry of right triangles, and themeasurement of three-dimensional figures.Grade 10 Mathematics(LOCALLY DEVELOPED – MAT 2L1)Prerequisite: A Grade 9 MathematicscreditThis course emphasizes the extension ofmathematical knowledge and skills to preparestudents for success in their everyday lives, in theworkplace, in the Grade 11 and Grade 12Workplace Preparation courses. The course isorganized by three strands related to money sense,measurement, and proportional reasoning. In allstrands, the focus is on strengthening andextending key foundational mathematical conceptsand skills by solving authentic, everyday problems.Grade 11 Functions(University Preparation – MCR 3U1)Prerequisite: MPM 2D1This course introduces the mathematical conceptof the function by extending students’ experienceswith linear and quadratic relations. Students willinvestigate properties of discrete and continuousfunctions, including trigonometric and exponentialfunctions, represent functions numerically,algebraically, and graphically, solve problemsinvolving applications of functions, and developfacility in simplifying polynomial and rationalexpressions.25