Welcome to grade 9 academic math!! This page is tailored to students in COHORT B.

Please be aware that you are responsible for the same work whether you are in class or not. Videos are posted below to cover all material that will also be covered in class. 

All course resources can be found in the course planner on Edsby (use the journal tab!!). 

All course resources are also located in the Class Notebook (and your Student Notebook) in Microsoft Teams.

During weeks when you are fully online you are expected to log in to Microsoft Teams at 1:00 for class. Absences for these classes must be reported to the office.

Class Schedule and Resources

Week 1:

Thursday, November 12th - Introduction to Math Class (Course Info Sheet    Course Outline     Classroom Policies   Learning Goals); Operations with Integers (Note      Complete Note     Handout)

Friday, November 13th - Operations with Rational Numbers (Note      Complete Note     Handout)   

Week 2:

Monday, November 16th - BEDMAS with Integers (Note      Complete Note      Handout)

Tuesday, November 17th - BEDMAS with Fractions (Note     Complete Note      Handout)

Wednesday, November 18th - BEDMAS work period (Extra Handout 1         Extra Handout 2)

Thursday, November 19th - Integers, Fractions and BEDMAS Quiz

Friday, November 20th - Ratios, Rates, Unit Rates (Note     Complete Note      Handout)

Week 3:

Monday, November 23rd - Quiz: Ratios, Rates & Unit Rates;  Unit 1 Lesson 5: Percent Problems (Video Lesson     Handout 6       Handout 7); Unit 1 Review & Test Information (You have lots of time to review tomorrow too)  Solutions for Handout 6         Solutions for Handout 7

Tuesday, November 24th - Unit 1 Review for the first 90 minutes, Unit 1 Test after our break. When you are done, work on Get Ready for Chapter 2 (Assigned questions: p. 40 #1 - 6)

Wednesday, November 25th - 2.1 Hypotheses and Sources of Data & 2.2 Sampling Principles (Note  Video Lesson  Assigned Problems: p.45 #1 - 6, 11 and p. 52 C1, #1 - 5, 8, 9, 12, 13)

Thursday, November 26th - 2.3 Use Scatter Plots to Analyse Data (Note     Video Lesson   Handout), 2.4 Trends, Interpolation and Extrapolation (Note    Video Lesson   Handout)

Friday, November 27th - Quiz 2.1 to 2.3, 2.5 Linear and Non-Linear Relationships (Note     Handout), 2.6 Distance Time Graphs (Note   Handout)

Week 4:

Monday, November 30th - Quiz 2.4 to 2.6, Introduction to Exponents (Note    Video Lesson    Handout 1    Handout 2    Handout 3)

Tuesday, December 1st - 3.2 Working with Exponents (Note    Assigned Problems: p. 114 C2, C3, C4 #1 - 8, 11, 12, 14, 18)

Wednesday, December 2nd - 3.3 Exponent Laws (Note       Assigned Problems: p. 126 #1 - 4, 7ab, 8abcegh, 11)

Thursday, December 3rd - 3.3 Exponent Laws Continued  (Assigned Problems: p. 126 C1, C3 #5, 6, 7cd, 8dfi, 9, 10, 14      Extra Practice)

Friday, December 4th - Quiz: Exponents so far; Unit 2 Review (Test Information     Review Handout)

Your Unit 2 Test is on your next in person day. There are text book review questions on the Test Information sheet. Be sure to do these in addition to the handout!

Week 5:

Monday, December 7th - Zero and Negative Exponents (Note    Video Lesson    Handout), 3.4 Communicate with Algebra (Note    Video Lesson      Assigned Problems: p. 134 C1, C2, C3 #1 - 6, 9 - 12, 15, 22), Unit 2 Review (Test Information      Review Handout)

Tuesday, December 8th - Unit 2 Review, Unit 2 Test, 3.5 Collecting Like Terms (Note      Assigned Problems: p. 150 C2 #1, 2, 4 - 9, 11)

Wednesday, December 9th - 3.6 Adding and Subtracting Polynomials & 3.7 The Distributive Property (Note 1 Assigned Problems: p. 165 C1 to C5 #3 - 5, 7 - 9, 15, 16; p. 157 C1, C2 #2, 4, 5     Note 2          Assigned Problems: p. 153 #12, p. 158 #7, 9, p. 167 #10, 12, 13, 17)

Thursday, December 10th - Finish 3.6 & 3.7 homework (Part 2), 4.1 Solving Equations (Note     Video Lesson     Assigned Problems: p. 192 C1, C2, C3 #2, 4, 6, 8, 10 -13, 15)

Friday, December 11th - Quiz: 3.4 to 3.7; 4.2 & 4.3 Solving Multi-Step Equations with Fractions (Note 1     Assigned Problems: p. 200 C1 #1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 9, 17     Note 2      Assigned Problems: p. 207 C1, C3 #1, 3, 4, 6, 8 - 10) On Monday we will take up homework and write a quiz on Solving Equations!

Week 6: We are online from 8:15 to 10:45 all week! Meet in Teams at 8:15!!

Monday, December 14th - Take up homework questions from 4.1 to 4.3; More practice with equations, Quiz: Solving Equations

Tuesday, December 15th - 4.4 Modelling with Formulas (Note     Assigned Problems: p. 215 C1, C2 #1, 2, 6 - 8, 10, 12a, 15); 4.5 Modelling with Algebra (Note     Assigned Problems: p. 226 C1, C2, C3 #2, 4 - 7, 9, 10, 13, 15)

Wednesday, December 16th - Quiz 4.4 & 4.5, start review (Test information is here!)

Thursday December 17th - More review, Unit 3 Test Part 1 - Exponents

Friday, December 18th - Unit 3 Test Parts 2 & 3 - Polynomials and Solving Equations, 5.1 & 5.2 Direct and Partial Variation (Note    Handout)

Week 7 - Unit 4: Slope and Equations of Lines      We are online from 8:15 to 10:45 all week! Meet in Teams at 8:15!!

Monday, January 4th - 5.1 & 5.2 Direct and Partial Variation (Note    Handout); 5.3 Slope (Note       Video Lesson     Assigned Problems: p. 258 C1, C2 #1 - 9, 12 - 14, 16, 23)

Tuesday, January 5th - Quiz: 5.1 to 5.3;  5.4 & 5.5 Slope as a Rate of Change and First Differences (Note       Video Lesson      Handout 1     Handout 2)

Wednesday, January 6th - 5.6 Connecting Variation, Slope and First Differences (Note      Assigned Problems: p. 284 C2 #1, 2, 5 - 7, 11, 13, 14    Handout), 6.1 The Equation of a Line in Slope-y-Intercept Form (Note     Assigned Problems: p. 303 C1, C2, C3 #1 - 6, 8, 10 - 12)

Thursday, January 7th - Quiz: 5.4 to 5.6; 6.2 The Equation of a Line in Standard Form (Note        Assigned Problems: p. 312 C1, C2 #1, 2, 4 - 6, 10, 11)

Friday, January 8th - Quiz: 6.1 & 6.2 Equations of Lines; 6.3 Graph a Line Using Intercepts (Note       Assigned Problems: p. 319 C2, C3 #1, 3, 5 - 7, 9, 11, 13ab), More Graphing Practice (Handout)

Week 8 - Unit 4 Continued                    We are online from 8:15 to 10:45 all week! Meet in Teams at 8:15!!

Monday, January 11th - Finish Friday's Handout, address questions; 6.4 Parallel and Perpendicular Lines (Note           Video Lesson        Assigned Problems: p. 327 C1, C2 #1, 3 - 6, 8 - 10, 12, 13)

Tuesday, January 12th - Quiz 6.3 & 6.4; 6.5 Finding an Equation of a Line Given Slope and a Point (Note     Assigned Problems: p. 335 C1, C2 #1ace, 2, 5, 6, 8); Start 6.6 Find an Equation of a Line Given Slope and a Point 

Wednesday, January 13th - 6.6 Find an Equation for a Line Given Two Points (Assigned Problems: p. 341 C1, C4 #1, 3 - 5, 8          Handout); 6.7 Linear Systems (Note        Handout)

Thursday, January 14th - Quiz 6.5 to 6.7; Unit 4 Review (Test Information      Handout)

Friday, January 15th - Unit 4 Test; Get Ready for Unit 5 (Assigned Problems: p. 362 #1 - 6, p. 414 #1 - 6)

Week 9 - Unit 5: Measurement and Geometry           We are online from 8:15 to 10:45 all week! Meet in Teams at 8:15!!

Monday, January 18th - Angles in Triangles, Quadrilaterals, and Polygons

Tuesday, January 19th - Angles in Parallel Lines; Perimeter and Area of Composite Shapes

Wednesday, January 20th - Quiz Unit 5 so far; Surface Area and Volume of Prisms, Pyramids, and Spheres

Thursday, January 21st - Quiz: Surface Area and Volume; Medians, Midpoints and Diagonals in Polygons

Friday, January 22nd - Unit 5 Review; Unit 5 Test

Week 10 - Exam Review/Exam (1:00 - 2:15 on Teams)

Monday, January 25th - Exam Review (Units 1, 2 and 5)

Tuesday, January 26th - Exam Part 1 (Units 1, 2, and 5)

Wednesday, January 27th - Exam Review (Units 3 & 4)

Thursday, January 28th - Exam Part 2 (Units 3 & 4)

*Each part of the exam will be written online in multiple choice, true/false, and short answer format. An organized notebook will help you succeed on this OPEN BOOK assessment. More detail will follow once I know how long classes are this week (we are supposed to be back in person, so we would have 75 minutes, but we will see...)

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