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THE PROGRAM IN MATHEMATICS 7
Grade 10 academic and applied courses prepare students for particular destination-related courses in Grade 11. The Grade 11 and 12 mathematics curriculum offers university prepara- tion, university/college preparation, college preparation, and workplace preparation courses. When choosing courses in Grades 9 and 10, students, parents, and educators should carefully consider students’ strengths, interests, and needs, as well as their postsecondary goals and the course pathways that will enable them to reach those goals.
School boards may develop locally and offer two mathematics courses – a Grade 9 course and a Grade 10 course – that can be counted as two of the three compulsory credits in math- ematics that a student is required to earn in order to obtain the Ontario Secondary School Diploma (see Program/Policy Memorandum No. 134, which outlines a revision to section 7.1.2, “Locally Developed Courses”, of Ontario Secondary Schools, Grades 9 to 12: Program and Diploma Requirements, 1999 [OSS]). The locally developed Grade 10 course may be designed to prepare students for success in the Grade 11 workplace preparation course. Ministry approval of the locally developed Grade 10 course would authorize the school board to use
it as the prerequisite for that course.
Courses in Mathematics, Grades 9 and 10* Course
Course Credit Code Value
MPM1D 1 MFM1P 1 MPM2D 1
10 Foundations of Mathematics
* See preceding text for information about locally developed Grade 9 and 10 mathematics courses.
** Prerequisites are required only for Grade 10, 11, and 12 courses.
Half-Credit Courses. The courses outlined in this document are designed to be offered as
full-credit courses. However, they may also be delivered as half-credit courses.
Half-credit courses, which require a minimum of fifty-five hours of scheduled instructional time, must adhere to the following conditions:
• The two half-credit courses created from a full course must together contain all of the expectations of the full course. The expectations for each half-credit course must be divided in a manner that best enables students to achieve the required knowledge and skills in the allotted time.
• A course that is a prerequisite for another course in the secondary curriculum may be offered as two half-credit courses, but students must successfully complete both parts of the course to fulfil the prerequisite. (Students are not required to complete both parts unless the course is a prerequisite for another course they wish to take.)
• Thetitleofeachhalf-creditcoursemustincludethedesignationPart1orPart2.Ahalf credit (0.5) will be recorded in the credit-value column of both the report card and the Ontario StudentTranscript.
Boards will ensure that all half-credit courses comply with the conditions described above, and will report all half-credit courses to the ministry annually in the School October Report.
Grade
Course Name
Type
Academic Applied Academic
Prerequisite**
Grade 9 Mathematics, Academic
9 Principles of Mathematics
9 Foundations of Mathematics
10 Principles of Mathematics
Applied
MFM2P 1
Grade 9 Mathematics, Academic or Applied