2008 McGRAW-HILL RYERSON AnnuAl RepoRt

School DivisionThe School Division’s 2008 publishing program continued to build on our long-term strategy of targetingGrades 7–12 mathematics, science, and social studies courses for university, college, and workplace-boundstudents. Our mathematics list was comprised of titles written to curricula in Ontario and Western Canada.Upon the 2005 launch of a new sixteen-course mathematics curriculum in Ontario, the School Divisiondeveloped a multi-year publishing plan to support this curriculum. Implementation of this plan began in2005, and in 2008 we published three new titles: two for university-bound students — MHR AdvancedFunctions 12, MHR Calculus & Vectors 12 — and one for college-bound students — MHR Functions& Applications 11. Our publication list for mathematics courses in Western Canada continued with thepublication of MathLinks 8, the second of the three title MathLinks series, as well as the publication ofMathLinks 7 Adapted, a title designed to assist struggling learners while complementing the core resource(MathLinks 7 ). In Science, the School Division published British Columbia Science 10, the final title in ahighly successful series designed to support new Grades 8–10 science curricula in British Columbia. Thepublication of Discovering Science 8 represents the second in a three-title series being developed undercontract to the Province of Newfoundland. Nova Scotia Science 6 was published under contract to theprovince of Nova Scotia and, as in the case of Discovering Science, is an adaptation of our British ColumbiaScience series. In Social Studies, we published Exploring Nationalism and Understanding Nationalism forthe Alberta market, designed for the university- and college-bound students respectively. Our publishing forthe year was rounded out by Food for Life 2/e and our first custom project for the province of Prince EdwardIsland, an adaptation of the McGraw-Hill McMillan Health and Wellness series for Grades 4, 5, and 6. TheSchool Division also continues to engage in market research into the role and value of technology-enabledteaching and learning solutions in Grade 7–12 classrooms.McGraw-Hill Ryerson Annual Report 20087Key titles in the School Division for 2008:1. Sandner et al., BC Science 102. McAskill et al., MathLinks 73. Speijer et al., MHR Advanced Functions 124. McAskill et al., MathLinks 85. Gardner et al., Exploring Nationalism6. Hoogeveen et al., Understanding Nationalism7. Speijer et al., Principles of Math 98. Speijer et al., MHR Calculus & Vectors 129. Bocknek, McGraw-Hill Ryerson Discovering Science 810. Bocknek et al., Nova Scotia Science 6