Mrs. L. GreerFall 2017

Apprenticeship and Workplace Mathematics 11

Welcome to AWM 11

This course is designed to prepare students for many of the trades, and for those students who will enter the workplace from high school.This course has seven units:

Mrs. L. GreerFall 2017

  1. Working WithGraphs
  2. Managing Your Money
  3. Investing and Borrowing Money
  4. Trigonometry
  5. Slope and Rates of Change
  6. Scale Representations
  7. Surface Area and Volume

Mrs. L. GreerFall 2017

Unit Instructions

Each unit consists of:

  1. Unit Booklet containing notes, examples, assignments and answer key
  2. Quizzes, 1 - 3 throughout the unit
  3. Practice Test
  4. Unit Test

In order to be successful in this course:

Preview the Self-Assessment statements and the vocabulary words on the back of the front page of each unit. These highlight the skills you are to learn.

Read instructions and make sure you can follow the examplesbefore each assignment in the booklets. Ask for help if you need it.This is really important. If you don’t understand the teaching material and examples, you will not be able to do the work.

Complete the assignments showing ALL your stepsin the booklet. Note that you will be given the answer key; you must show all steps required to get to those answers.

Check your answerswith the provided key as you work through each assignment. Fix any incorrect answers before you continue. ASK FOR HELP IF YOU NEED IT BEFORE GOING ON.

Do quizzes when indicated. Don’t go on to new work before writing a quiz.

Mental Math Worksheets are to be done with your built-in calculator . Use rounding and estimating to get reasonable answers (not necessarily exact answers). Show you understand by writing down the steps you take.

You will mark the Practice Tests yourself; by seeing and reviewing your errors you will better prepare yourself for the Unit Tests (worth 20% of class mark).

Before you write the Unit Tests, fill in the Self-Assessment section. Make sure you ask for help or clarification in areas that you may be unsure of before you write the Unit Test.

Supplies: binder, paper, pencils, erasers, calculator (no phone calculators)

Assessment:

Booklet Completion40%

Unit Quizzes, Practice Tests20%

UnitTests20%

Final Exam20%

AWMath 11 Approximate Timeline

If you complete a particular unit early, move onto the next unit early. You may find some units more difficult than others and require more time on future units.

Unit# of ClassesDates

1. Working with Graphs 10Aug 29 – Sept 12

2. Managing Your Money11Sept 13 - 27

3. Investing and Borrowing Money12Sept 28 – Oct 17

4. Solving Right Triangles12Oct 18 – Nov 3

5. Slope and Rates of Change12Nov 6 - 23

6. Scale Representations12Nov 24 – Dec 11

7. Surface Area and Volume13Dec 12 – Jan 10

Review for Final Exam 2Jan 11, 12

Final Exam Week Jan 15 - 18