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…).
The course is very demanding with nine pre-calculus units:
- Functions
and
Relations
- Transformations on Functions
- Exponential
and
Logarithmic
Functions - Applications
of
Exponential
and
Logarithmic
Functions - Polynomial
Functions
and
Equations - Permutations
and
Combinations - Analyzing
Radical
and
Rational
Functions - Trigonometry
–
Functions
and
Graphs - Trigonometry
–
Equations
and
Identities
My 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.
So! Congratulations to my stellar students!
Congrats to their obviously fantastic teacher!
Nicely done!! (I'm a little behind on this blog). Just FYI – "possibly required…" it is not. In fact, CCS is looking into the same type of flex scheduling.