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MATHEMATICS 11 - TEACHER RESOURCE

Introduction to Mathematics 11 Underlying Principles of the Program How Mathematics 11 Addresses Key Curriculum Issues

  • Managing the Use of One Resource for Two Courses
  • Dealing with the Strands
  • The Process of Inquiry
  • Mathematical Modelling
  • Teaching Approaches
  • Independent Use of the Text by Students
  • Contextual Learning
  • Education for Exceptional Students
  • The Role of Technology in the Curriculum
  • English As a Second Language and English Literacy Development (ESL/ELD)
  • Career Education
  • Cooperative Education and Other Workplace Experiences
  • Mathematics Anxiety
  • Assessment

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Using Mathematics 11 Flexible Course Sequence Suggested Teaching Times Material Needed

Mathematics 11 - Special Features

  • Review of Essential Skills and Knowledge
  • Cumulative Review Tests
  • Performance Tasks
  • Technology Lessons
  • Exploration Lessons
  • Skill Builder Lessons

Mathematics 11 - Features of a Chapter

  • Introduction
  • The Chapter Problem
  • The Challenges
  • Getting Ready

Mathematics 11 - Structure of a Lesson

  • Think, Do, Discuss
  • Didactic Lessons
  • Focus, Key Ideas
  • Solved Examples
  • Practise, Apply, Solve
  • Other Features of a Lesson

Mathematics 11 - Chapter Review

  • Check Your Understanding
  • Review Organized by Lessons
  • Chapter Summary
  • Chapter Review Test
  • Other Features of the Text

Teacher Resource - Chapter Introduction

  • Chapter Overview
  • Connections
  • Getting Ready
  • Assessment Organizer

Teacher Resource - Support for Each Lesson

  • Introduction
  • Specific Expectations / Evidence of Learning Chart
  • Think, Do, Discuss
  • Focus, Key Ideas
  • Practise, Apply, Solve

Teacher Resource - Review and Assessment

  • Chapter Review
  • Sample Chapter Tests
  • Performance Tasks

Teacher Resource - Additional Components

  • Computerized Test Bank
  • Solutions Manual
  • CD-ROM featuring electronic version of the Teacher's Resource, Solutions Manual and Student Text (included in the Teacher's Resource binder)
  • On-line teacher support ancillaries from the Nelson Math Web site

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Assessment and Evaluation

  • Assessment, Evaluation, and Grading
  • The Purpose of Assessment
  • Expanding the Vision of Assessment in Mathematics
  • Assessment Terminology
  • Assessment Strategies and Tools

Assessment Issues in Ontario Grade 11 Mathematics

  • Assessing Expectations
  • How Mathematics 11 Helps
  • Connecting to the Achievement Chart
  • How Mathematics 11 Helps with the Assessment of Achievement of Curriculum Expectations
  • Assessing Learning Skills
  • How Mathematics 11 Helps with the Assessment of Learning Skills
  • The Provincial Report Card

Developing a Balanced Assessment Program

  • Assessment Using the Achievement Chart Categories
  • Assessment of Learning Skills

Assessment Features in Mathematics 11

  • Assessment Features in Each Chapter
  • Performance Tasks in Mathematics 11
    • How to Use the Performance Tasks
    • Support for the Performance Tasks
    • Suggestions for Carrying Out the Performance Tasks
      • Individual Work
      • Cooperative Group Work
      • Group Work for the Purpose of Collecting and Sharing Data
      • Breaking a Performance Task into Stages
    • How to Assess the Performance Tasks

Assessment References and Resources

Assessment Blackline Masters

  • Assessment of Curriculum Expectations Using the Achievement Chart Categories
    • Generic Rubric for Knowledge and Understanding
    • Generic Rubric for Application
    • Generic Rubric for Thinking, Inquiry, and Problem Solving
    • Generic Rubric for Communication
  • Generic Rubric for Chapter Problems
  • Mathematics Problem Solving Worksheet
  • Review Problems Evaluation Sheet
  • Problem Solving Checklist Self-Assessment

Assessment of Learning Skills

  • Generic Rubrics for Learning Skills
  • Group Participation: Peer-Assessment
  • Learning Skills Tracking Sheet
  • Work Habits Self-Reflection Sheet
  • Teamwork Self-Reflection Sheet
  • Initiative Self-Reflection Sheet
  • Independence Self-Reflection Sheet
  • Learning Skills Self-Evaluation Sheet

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Teaching Notes and Suggestions

Chapter 1: Patterns of Growth: Sequences

1.1
1.2

1.3 U
1.4
1.5
1.6
1.7
1.8
1.9
1.10
1.11

Exploring Patterns and Sequences
Technology: TI-83 Plus Calculator: Generating the Terms of a Sequence
Sequences and Recursive Formulas
Technology: TI-83 Plus Calculator: Graphing Sequences
Exploration: Investigating Ways of Cutting "Vegetables"
Arithmetic Sequences
Geometric Sequences
Compound Interest: Amount and Present Value
Rational Exponents
Simplifying Expressions Involving Exponents
Solving Exponential Equations

Chapter 1 Check Your Understanding (answers)
Chapter 1 Test
Chapter 1 Test Solutions and Scoring Guide
Chapter 1 The Chapter Problem (questions and answers)
Chapter 1 Challenge 1 and 2, Solution Guides and Rubrics

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Chapter 2: Series and Financial Applications

2.1
2.2

2.3
2.4

2.5
2.6

2.7
2.8
2.9

2.10
2.11

2.12

Arithmetic Series
Exploration: Investigating a Sequence Using the TI-83 Plus Calculator and the TI Calculator-Based Ranger (CBR)
Geometric Series
Technology: Using a Spreadsheet to Represent the Value of a Deposit
Future Value and Amortization Tables
Technology: TI-83 Plus Calculator: Finding the Sum and the Cumulative Sum of a Series
Using Series to Analyze Financial Situations: Future Value
Using Series to Analyze Financial Situations: Present Value
Technology: TI-83 Plus Calculator: Analyzing Financial Situations Using the TVM Solver
Equivalent Rates and General Annuities
Technology: TI-83 Plus Calculator: Creating Repayment Schedules
Using Technology to Analyze Canadian Mortgages

Chapter 2 Check Your Understanding (answers)
Chapter 2 Test
Chapter 2 Test Solutions and Scoring Guide
Chapter 2 The Chapter Problem (questions and answers)
Chapter 2 Challenge 1 and 2, Solution Guides and Rubrics

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Chapter 3: Introducing Functions

3.1
3.2
3.3
3.4
3.5

3.6
3.7


Exploration: Investigating A Special Relationship
Functions: Concept and Notation
Skill Builder - Solving Inequalities
The Inverse Function
Technology: TI-83 Plus Calculator: Graphing Functions and Inverse Functions
Investigating Properties of Inverse Functions
Transformations and Function Notation

Chapter 3 Check Your Understanding (answers)
Chapter 3 Test
Chapter 3 Test Solutions and Scoring Guide
Chapter 3 The Chapter Problem (questions and answers)
Chapter 3 Challenge 1 and 2, Solution Guides and Rubrics

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Chapter 4: Quadratic and Rational Functions

4.1

4.2
4.3
4.4
4.5 U

4.6
4.7

4.8
4.9
4.10 U
4.11
4.12

Skill Builder: Extending Algebra Skills: Completing the Square
Maximum and Minimum Values of Quadratic Functions
Zeros of Quadratic Functions
Introducing Complex Numbers
Skill Builder: Adding, Subtracting, and Multiplying Complex Numbers
Reciprocal Functions
Technology: TI-83 Plus Calculator: Exploring the Behaviour of Functions Near the Asymptotes
Simplifying Rational Expressions
Multiplying and Dividing Rational Expressions
Skill Builder: Dividing Complex Numbers
Adding and Subtracting Rational Expressions
Skill Builder: Extending Algebra Skills: Working with Polynomials

Chapter 4 Check Your Understanding (answers)
Chapter 4 Test
Chapter 4 Test Solutions and Scoring Guide
Chapter 4 The Chapter Problem (questions and answers)
Chapter 4 Challenge 1 and 2, Solution Guides and Rubrics

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Chapter 5: Modeling Periodic Functions

5.1
5.2
5.3
5.4
5.5

5.6
5.7
5.8
5.9

5.10

Periodic Phenomena
Skill Builder: Understanding Angles
Trigonometric Functions
Radian Measure
Technology: TI-83 Plus Calculator: Graphing Trigonometric Functions
Investigating Transformations
Modelling Periodic Phenomena
Solving Linear Trigonometric Equations
Technology: TI-83 Plus Calculator: Using Sinusoidal Regression to Find the Curve of Best Fit
Technology: Using Digital Probes to Collect Periodic Data

Chapter 5 Check Your Understanding (answers)
Chapter 5 Test
Chapter 5 Test Solutions and Scoring Guide
Chapter 5 The Chapter Problem (questions and answers)
Chapter 5 Challenge 1 and 2, Solution Guides and Rubrics

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Chapter 6: Extending Skills With Trigonometry

6.1
6.2

6.3

6.4
6.5
6.6


Extending Trigonometry Skills with Oblique Triangles
Solving Trigonometry Problems in Two and Three Dimensions
Skill Builder: Using Special Triangles to Determine Exact Values
Exploration: Investigating Identical Expressions
Skill Builder: Trigonometric Identities
Skill Builder: Solving Quadratic Trigonometric Equations

Chapter 6 Check Your Understanding (answers)
Chapter 6 Test
Chapter 6 Test Solutions and Scoring Guide
Chapter 6 The Chapter Problem (questions and answers)
Chapter 6 Challenge 1 and 2, Solution Guides and Rubrics

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Chapter 7: Investigating Loci and Conics

7.1U
7.2U
7.3U
7.4U
7.5U
7.6U
7.7U
7.8U
7.9U
7.10U
7.11U

Introducing Locus Definitions
Revisiting the Circle
Technology: TI-83 Plus Calculator: Graphing Circles
The Ellipse
Exploration: Waxed-Paper Models
The Parabola
Exploration: Reflective Properties of Conics
Technology: Graphing Conics Using Technology
The Hyperbola
The General Form of Conics
When Lines Meet Conics

Chapter 7 Check Your Understanding (answers)
Chapter 7 Test
Chapter 7 Test Solutions and Scoring Guide
Chapter 7 The Chapter Problem (questions and answers)
Chapter 7 Challenge 1 and 2, Solution Guides and Rubrics

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Performance Tasks

Performance Tasks for Part 1: Financial Applications of
     Sequences and Series
Performance Tasks for Part 2: Functions
Performance Tasks for Part 3: Trigonometric Functions
Performance Tasks for Part 4: Loci and Conics

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Technology Appendices

Appendix 1: Using The Geometer's Sketchpad

  • Quick Tips for Use with The Geometer's Sketchpad
  • Commands on the Menu Bar
    • Objects that Must be Selected for Each Construction
    • Objects that Must be Selected for Each Measurement
  • Using the Calculator
  • Construction Help

Appendix 2: Internet Sites for Teachers


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