{"id":64,"date":"2014-03-21T23:04:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T23:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/wordpress\/?p=64"},"modified":"2014-03-21T23:04:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-21T23:04:00","slug":"math-30-1-diploma-exa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2014\/03\/21\/math-30-1-diploma-exa\/","title":{"rendered":"Math 30-1 Diploma Exam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog8\/diploma.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In January, my grade 12 math students wrote their diploma exam, a provincial requirement and a university placement helper. They did superbly! I have to brag a little since I had a class of 24 with wide ranging skills and because of a schoolwide scheduling change 15% less instructional time to deliver the course than what was previously allotted (and recommended, and possibly required&#8230;).<\/p>\n<p>The course is very demanding with nine pre-calculus units:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Functions<br \/>\n &nbsp;and<br \/>\n &nbsp;Relations<br \/>\n &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Transformations on Functions&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Exponential<br \/>\n &nbsp;and<br \/>\n &nbsp;Logarithmic<br \/>\n &nbsp;Functions<\/li>\n<li>Applications<br \/>\n &nbsp; of<br \/>\n &nbsp; Exponential<br \/>\n &nbsp; and<br \/>\n &nbsp;<br \/>\nLogarithmic<br \/>\n &nbsp;Functions<\/li>\n<li>Polynomial<br \/>\n &nbsp;Functions<br \/>\n &nbsp;and<br \/>\n &nbsp;Equations<\/li>\n<li>Permutations<br \/>\n &nbsp;and<br \/>\n &nbsp;Combinations<\/li>\n<li>Analyzing<br \/>\n &nbsp;Radical<br \/>\n &nbsp;and<br \/>\n &nbsp;Rational<br \/>\n &nbsp;Functions<\/li>\n<li>Trigonometry<br \/>\n &nbsp;\u2013<br \/>\n &nbsp;Functions<br \/>\n &nbsp;and<br \/>\n &nbsp;Graphs<\/li>\n<li>Trigonometry<br \/>\n &nbsp;\u2013<br \/>\n &nbsp;Equations<br \/>\n &nbsp;and<br \/>\n &nbsp;Identities<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\nMy students scored on average 10% higher than the province (which had a 24% failure rate). We also had a tight standard deviation of 15.5 whereas the province had a spread of 20.1.<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\nSo! Congratulations to my stellar students!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In January, my grade 12 math students wrote their diploma exam, a provincial requirement and a university placement helper. They did superbly! I have to brag a little since I had a class of 24 with wide ranging skills and because of a schoolwide scheduling change 15% less instructional time to deliver the course than &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2014\/03\/21\/math-30-1-diploma-exa\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,18,30],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-admin","4":"post-64","6":"format-standard","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"category-education","9":"category-math","10":"category-zr"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}