The program in the Junior School offers a strong conceptual framework. Mathematics in the Junior School is part of the children's study of the real world around them. Teachers capitalize on a variety of strategies and utilize technology to enable the children to become mathematically literate. At each level students gain essential understanding and see relationships in the mathematical areas that represent the main strands of the curriculum: number sense and operations, measurements, geometry, statistics/ probability and algebra/functions /patterns. At every grade level special emphasis is placed on problem-solving activities and their applications so that students will develop confidence in thinking and communicating mathematical ideas effectively.
Our Junior A students begin to develop a sense of number by counting, grouping and comparing quantities to twenty, modeling and explaining addition and subtraction to ten and sequencing objects and numbers. Junior A students recognize, extend and create patterns; classify materials and objects; begin to sort and display data; and investigate nonstandard measures.
Our Junior One students gain a sense of number by counting, grouping, comparing and estimating quantities to one hundred. They develop concepts of addition and subtraction; estimate and measure using standard and nonstandard units; and identify, name and state properties of two-dimensional and three-dimensional shapes. Junior One students collect, count, sort, display and compare data; identify patterns; find simple function rules; identify unit fractions; tell the time; and identify and work with coins.
Our Junior Two students continue to develop number sense with an emphasis on grouping and regrouping through hundreds, including money amounts. Multiplication and division concepts are introduced. Students estimate and measure using standard units; continue to develop concepts of time, temperature and money equivalencies; identify fractions; explore relationships among plane shapes and solids. Junior Two students collect, count, sort, display and compare data; create and extend number patterns; find addition/ subtraction function rules and missing addends.
Our Junior Three students use a sense of number to read, write and compare numbers to millions; explore relationships between multiplication and division; develop strategies for remembering multiplication facts; estimate, add and subtract three and four digit whole numbers; multiply one digit, two digit, and three digit numbers by one digit numbers; complete simple multiplication problems; and find fractional parts of a group or region. They estimate and measure length, volume, capacity and temperature; recognize line relationships and right angles; and identify characteristics of plane figures and solid shapes. Students collect, display and compare data and explore probability, number properties, factors and multiples.
Our Junior Four students recognize and use commutative and associative properties of addition and multiplication; estimate, add and subtract whole numbers, fractions with like denominators and decimals to hundredths; and multiply and divide two digit and three digit numbers. They estimate and measure length, volume and capacity; find area and perimeter of regular and irregular polygons; classify geometric shapes and angles; model three-dimensional shapes; investigate transformational geometry; and locate points on a grid using ordered pairs. Students collect, display, and compare survey data; recognize terms to express central tendency; determine probability; and record ratios.