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Mathematics

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TVO Learn is designed to meet each student where they are on their learning journey. Learning Activities are comprehensive and require guided instruction from an adult, while Resources for Learning, Apply the Learning prompts and Vocabulary lists work well to reinforce specific skills or to enable independent exploration of a subject. Use these helpful tips to get the most from TVO Learn.

Curriculum Overview

Throughout this grade, in order to promote a positive identity as a math learner, to foster well-being and the ability to learn, build resilience, and thrive, students will apply, to the best of their ability, a variety of social-emotional learning skills to support their use of the mathematical processes and their learning in connection with the expectations in the other five strands of the mathematics curriculum. 

To learn about positive motivation, students will use a variety of tools and strategies in spatial sense as they try different non-standard units to measure the area of a table top, adjusting as they go in order to reach a solution. 

The mathematics curriculum is divided into six strands:

  • Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) Skills in Mathematics and the Mathematical Processes

  • Number

  • Algebra

  • Data

  • Spatial Sense

  • Financial Literacy

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Learning Activities

Learning Activities provide opportunity for deeper exploration of a subject. Organized by grade and topic (or strand), students should be guided through each Learning Activity by an adult. Before clicking on a topic to prepare for or begin this guided instruction, be sure to read these helpful tips about how to get the most out of TVO Learn.

Learning Activities provide opportunity for deeper exploration of a subject. Organized by grade and topic (or strand), students should be guided through each Learning Activity by an adult. Before clicking on a topic to prepare for or begin this guided instruction, be sure to read these helpful tips about how to get the most out of TVO Learn.

Learning Activities
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Students work with Numbers up to 10,000 and are introduced to decimals. They learn how decimal Numbers are used in life, such as taking a person’s temperature on a thermometer and when making and recording precise measurements. Students will begin to divide two- and three-digit whole Numbers by one-digit whole Number and are expected to know multiplication facts from 1 × 1   to 10 × 10. They also begin to solve problems that require more than one operation with whole Numbers. 

Learning Activity 1
Numbers up to 10 000
Learning Activity 2
Pattern and Strategies in Multiplication
Learning Activity 3
Multiplying 2- or 3-Digit Numbers by 1-Digit Numbers
Learning Activity 4
Adding and Subtracting Decimal Tenths
Learning Activity 5
Dividing Whole Numbers by 10
Learning Activity 6
Divide 2-Digits or 3-Digits by 1-Digit Whole Numbers
Learning Activity 7
Fractions and Tenth Equivalences
Learning Activity 8
Halves to Tenth Fractions
Learning Activity 9
Fair Share Scenarios
Learning Activity 10
Multiplication and Division Strategies
Learning Activity 11
Multiplying Unit Fractions
Learning Activity 12
Unit Rates as Fractions

Students build their knowledge of patterning as they begin to classify patterns as repeating or increasing. They also begin to determine the values that make Algebraic statements true – for example, if n + 3 = 10, then n must be 7. Students learn to write and read code to create geometric designs. They will also use the modelling process to analyse and create solutions for real-life situations, such as raising money through a walk-a-thon.

Learning Activity 1
Exploring Repeating Patterns
Learning Activity 2
Growing Patterns
Learning Activity 3
Term and Term Number
Learning Activity 4
Graphing Patterns
Learning Activity 5
Graphing Patterns (2)
Learning Activity 6
Variables in Equations
Learning Activity 7
Equalities and Inequalities – Graphing
Learning Activity 8
Balanced Equations Using + and x
Learning Activity 9
Solving Equations – Guess and Check
Learning Activity 10
Drawing Shapes with Unplugged Coding – Sequential and Repeating Events
Learning Activity 11
Drawing Shapes with Unplugged Coding – Sequential, Concurrent, and Repeating Events
Learning Activity 12
2D Shapes and Nested Events with Scratch Start

Developing an understanding of Data continues as students collect, organize and display two or more Data sets using frequency tables and multiple-bar graphs. Students begin to learn how to create an infographic, so that they can tell a story about Data.

Learning Activity 1
Qualitative Data Versus Quantitative Data
Learning Activity 2
Primary and Secondary Data
Learning Activity 3
Organizing Data
Learning Activity 4
Displaying Data
Learning Activity 5
Representations of Data
Learning Activity 6
Determining Mean, Median, and Mode
Learning Activity 7
Justifying Mean, Median, and Mode
Learning Activity 8
Analyzing Data Displays
Learning Activity 9
Making Convincing Arguments About Data
Learning Activity 10
How Likely Is It?
Learning Activity 11
Probability Lines and Predictions
Learning Activity 12
Making and Testing Predictions

Students learn the characteristics and properties of a rectangle, one of the most common shapes in our everyday life. Students learn how to determine the area of a rectangle and the relationship between the various units in the metric system – a measurement system used throughout Canada and most of the world.

Learning Activity 1
Properties of a Rectangle
Learning Activity 2
Cartesian Plane and Coordinates
Learning Activity 3
Translations and Reflections on a Grid
Learning Activity 4
Introducing Mass and Capacity
Learning Activity 5
Estimating Mass and Capacity
Learning Activity 6
Metric Units
Learning Activity 7
Elapsed Time: Part 1
Learning Activity 8
Elapsed Time: Part 2
Learning Activity 9
Identifying and Classifying Angles
Learning Activity 10
Exploring Angles
Learning Activity 11
Using Arrays to Find Area
Learning Activity 12
Area of a Rectangle

Students learn that there are different ways to pay for goods and services. Students also learn how consumers determine whether an item is good value for the price.

Learning Activity 1
Measuring Value (Cash)
Learning Activity 2
Bank Cards (Paying in Person)
Learning Activity 3
Payments Online
Learning Activity 4
Cryptocurrency
Learning Activity 5
Cheques
Learning Activity 6
Credit Cards
Learning Activity 7
Payments Through Apps
Learning Activity 8
Earning Income & Volunteering
Learning Activity 9
Investment Money
Learning Activity 10
Spending Habits
Learning Activity 11
Saving Money
Learning Activity 12
Price Comparison

Resources for Learning

Chosen by TVO educators, these resources support the curriculum outlined above. Review the below list of options along with the activities. Then, read, watch, listen or play to build understanding and knowledge.

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Complete the suggested activities using these resources and other TVO resources.

Apply the Learning

Choose from the following to consolidate learning across all curriculum strands.

  • Create your own definitions for 20 of the words in the vocabulary list. 

  • Find the length (perimeter) around a room in your house. Round your measurements to the nearest centimeter (cm). Why would you need to know the perimeter of a room? 

  • Design an attractive, colourful poster that includes lines of symmetry, parallel and perpendicular lines. 

  • Go outside and take a photo of 5 things found in nature that show a repeating pattern. Make a collage with the photos. 

  • Estimate the time it will take to travel to another city by car if you drive at the same speed the entire trip. Why will this estimate be different from the real time it will take? 

  • Investigate the cost of an item you wish to buy from 3 different companies. How will you decide which price is the most reasonable or best buy? 

  • Take a tally of your family or friends about their favourite hobby. Design a graph to share the results. What patterns do you notice? 

  • Create a board game that will help you to practice your multiplications facts. 

  • Prove that this algebraic statement is true if n + 3 = 10, then n must be 7. Show how you know. 

  • You have been asked to help assist with a school fundraiser. The school decided to raise money through a walk-a-thon, is this a good fundraiser activity to do. Why or why not? 

  • Ask your family when is their birthday and create an infographic and tell a story about data that you collect and organize. 

  • The rectangles are one of the most common shapes in our everyday life. How many can you find in your kitchen?

Vocabulary

Review this list of vocabulary associated with the curriculum. Practice spelling, research definitions, and find these vocabulary words when engaging with the TVO resources or completing learning activities.

Students should understand and be able to apply these words in context.

10 000 

algorithms 

decimal numbers 

decimals 

denominator 

divide 

measurements 

multiplication facts 

1 x 1 to 10 x 10 

number 

numerator 

one-digit 

operation 

real-life 

rounding 

tenth 

three-digit 

two-digit 

whole numbers 

algebra 

algebraic statements 

analyze 

classify 

code 

create 

expression 

equation 

equivalent 

geometric designs 

increasing patterns 

mathematical modelling  

modelling process 

nested events 

patterning 

repeating events 

sequential events 

values 

variable 

collect 

create 

data 

data set 

display 

frequency tables 

graph 

impossible 

infographic 

mean 

median 

mode 

multiple-bar  

organize 

qualitative data

quantitative data  

stem-and-leaf plots 

unlikely 

acute angle 

angle 

area 

Cartesian plane 

characteristics 

line of symmetry 

metric system  

obtuse angle 

parallel 

perpendicular side 

properties 

rectangle 

reflection 

relationship 

right angle 

spatial sense 

straight angle 

translations 

units 

consumers 

donating 

earning 

financial literacy 

goods  

good value 

investing  

methods of payment 

price 

saving 

services 

spending  

transactions 

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