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Lesson Activities: Grade 12 Calculus & Vectors Calculus and Vectors was one of my favorite courses in high school because of how many real-world applications there are in this course.   Calculus is important for students to learn because it is used in a variety of other fields.   i.e. it is used in geography, computer simulations, photography (panoramas), computer games, network visualizations, astronomy (forces & motion), spread of disease, etc. I think many students are reluctant to take Calculus & Vectors because they believe it is much harder than Advanced Functions, however this is not the case.   Half of the course is for vectors, which does not require any previous knowledge, which allows students a fresh start.   Like all other math courses, students need to be dedicated to practicing the questions provided and working hard to solve the problems to succeed in this course. I really liked Darren’s lesson activity because he demonstrated...

Lesson Activities: Grade 12 Data Management/ Advanced Functions I find Data Management is a math course many teachers may not be comfortable with teaching because they are not as familiar with the subject content.   For this reason, I believe that many teachers teach this course in a very traditional way (i.e. a lot of lecture & note taking), which is unfortunate because data management is a course that has a lot of opportunity for experimenting and inquiry learning.   Colleen demonstrated this through her presentation on discrete probability.   She had in place 5 different probability scenarios that students could work on: rolling 2 dice, choosing a coloured egg from a bag at random, spinning a spinner, choosing a card from a deck of cards, and flipping a quarter.   I think data management is the type of course students would learn best from hands on experience, and using tangible objects to understand problems and how to solve them.   I also think...

Lesson Activities: Grade 11 College (MBF3C) In the grade 11 college preparation course, students develop an understanding of mathematical concepts related to quadratic relations, data management, trigonometry, and geometry.   This course is designed to provide students with the skills and knowledge necessary for college programs or for some apprenticeship or training programs.   The lesson activity presentations that we had during class were both interactive and hands on, which is perfect for this course.   The first lesson activity, presented by Anita, covered mean, median and mode.   This lesson would be best implemented in the middle of the data management unit when working with one variable data.   The last time students would have covered mean, median and mode would have been in grade 8, which is why it would be useful have a lesson activity on these mathematical concepts.   I think Anita’s game activity, “Find the Mean Lik...