Message from the Principal
Welcome!
I begin by greeting you on behalf of our students and staff. The school was established to respond to the needs of international students as they transition to Canada and Canadian culture. Consequently, as a Ministry of Education accredited international high school we are committed to your success and remain committed to parents and students while providing a learning environment which is sensitive to students’ personal growth and nurturing intellectual curiosity.
During their study at the school, students will experience many cross-cultural opportunities that explores Canadian life and values while celebrating their own culture with members of the local community. I am certain that your children will bring life, energy and a desire to learn each and every day to the school. We are convinced that the school experience at Marco Polo Academy will enrich their lives and that it will contribute to the development of their personality and broaden their horizon to many opportunities.
Our mission is to deliver a world-class education so that our students function at a high academic level in order to pursue many specialized fields in an ever expanding global society. Our comprehensive curriculum provides an excellent foundation for students to remain committed to life-long learning, while embracing the core values of respect, responsibility and integrity and also be challenged to become critical thinkers and effective communicators. Our learning community is committed to helping students master the rigors of the curriculum, boldly face new challenges and achieve success. Our school is large enough to provide a broad and differentiated curriculum that caters to a number of interests and abilities.
As Principal of Marco Polo Academy, I have been impressed by our students’ confidence, commitment and academic achievement. Our students are sought after by many outstanding universities, both locally and nationally. We are proud of their achievements and those of our alumni as they look forward to continued success as caring and contributing members of society.
This course is designed to help students acquire and demonstrate the grade approprite skills in Mathematics. Students who complete the course successfully will meet the provincial Grade 6 Mathematics requirement.
Students will maintain and manage a eportfolio containing a record of their learning and samples of their work. This must be submitted at the end of the course as their summative.
Good Luck and let’s make 2020-2021 a year filled with passion, purpose, and positive memories!
Joe Santalucia, Principal
The following are highlights of student learning in Grade 6.
They are provided to give teachers and parents a quick overview of the mathematical knowledge and skills that students are expected to acquire in each strand in this grade. The expectations on the pages that follow outline the required knowledge and skills in detail and provide information about the ways in which students are expected to demonstrate their learning, how deeply they will explore concepts
and at what level of complexity they will perform procedures, and the mathematical processes they will learn and apply throughout the grade.
Number Sense and Numeration: representing and ordering numbers to 1 000 000; developing the concept of place value to thousandths; comparing and ordering fractional amounts with unlike denominators; estimating 10%, 25%, 50%, and 75% of a quantity; adding and subtracting decimal amounts to thousandths; multiplying and dividing four-digit whole numbers by two-digit whole numbers; multiplying and dividing decimals to tenths by whole numbers and two-digit by two-digit whole numbers; dividing three-digit whole numbers by one-digit whole numbers; applying order of operations in expressions without brackets; relating simple fractions, decimals, and percents
Measurement: measuring quantities using metric units; converting from larger to smaller metric units, including square metres to square centimetres; developing and applying area relationships for a parallelogram and a triangle; developing and applying the volume relationships for a triangular prism; determining and applying surface area relationships for rectangular and triangular prisms; relating square metres and square centimetres
Geometry and Spatial Sense: classifying quadrilaterals by geometric properties; sorting polygons by lines of symmetry and by rotational symmetry; measuring angles to 180° with a protractor; constructing polygons; representing figures using views and isometric sketches; performing and describing rotations; plotting points in the first quadrant
Patterning and Algebra: representing patterns using ordered pairs and graphs; describing pattern rules in words; calculating any term when given the term number; investigating variables as changing quantities; solving equations using concrete materials and guess and check
Data Management and Probability: collecting and organizing discrete and continuous data; displaying data using continuous line graphs; selecting appropriate graphical representations; using continuous line graphs and mean to compare sets of data; finding theoretical probabilities; predicting the frequency of an outcome based on the theoretical probability.
Course Introduction
- Welcome
- Pretest
- Assignment: Pretest