Mathematics
To help your child learn and succeed in the Secondary 2 math program, it’s important to master certain essential concepts. This page gives you access to the key concepts of the Secondary 1 mathematics program, in line with the Quebec Education Program (QEP) and the Learning Pregression (PDA), available on the Ministry of Education and Higher Education of Quebec website.
What is decisive knowledge (learning)?
It corresponds to what your child needs to know, be able to do or understand to succeed in his or her new mathematics program. For learning to be decisive, it must be prerequisite, transferable and durable.
Prerequisite: Does it prepare your child for other essential learning in the field in question?
Transferable: Is it useful for your child in other school subjects or disciplines?
Durable: Is it useful for your child throughout his or her life?
Skills assessed during the mathematics course
Your child is assessed on the following two skills:
Competence 1 (C1)
Solving a problem situation (30%)
Your child is assessed through a problem situation that raises one or more aspects of a problem that needs to be solved using mathematical knowledge.
Competence 2 (C2)
Use mathematical reasoning (70%)
Your child is assessed with application situations that raise one or more conjectures (relationships, statements, opinions, conclusions, etc.), implicit or explicit, that need to be discovered, explained, generalized, proved or disproved using mathematical knowledge.
Final exam
In Secondary 1, your child does not have to take a Ministry exam. However, his or her educational institution should administer two end-of-school-year exams. The first test, usually in May, assesses the development of Competency 1: Problem-solving. The second test, at the end of the school year, assesses the development of Competency 2: Mathematical reasoning. These tests focus on the main concepts and processes covered in the Secondary 1 mathematics program.
Key skills for higher levels
The knowledge below represents the key knowledge required for success at the higher levels of the PFEQ and PDA programs.
Arithmetic
- Recognize the meaning of a fraction (part of a whole, division, ratio)
- Compare and order numbers in different forms (fractional, decimal, percentage)
Reminder of symbols for comparing numbers Secondary 1
Give an approximate value of a decimal number
Compare two decimal numbers whose whole parts are distinct
- Recognize the operation in a situation
Problem The Choice of Operation
- Translate a situation using a chain of operations
Problem solving – Mathematics secondary 1–
- Switch from one form of writing to another: fractional, percentage, decimal
Alloprof – Transforming a fraction into a decimal number and vice versa
Alloprof – Transforming a Percentage into a Fraction and the Inverse
Alloprof – Transform a periodic decimal number into a fraction and vice versa
Alloprof – Transform a percentage into a decimal and vice versa
- Perform the 4 operations (integers, fractions and decimals) in writing.
Alloprof – Fractions Operations
- Write chains of operations (procedure)
Alloprof – Priority operations – part 1
Alloprof – Priority operations – part 1
- Perform operations and chains of operations using a calculator
- Calculate the percentage
Algebra
- Describe the role of components: unknown and variable
Secondary 2 Quebec algebra: Identifying variables and unknowns
- Constructing an algebraic expression
Constructing an algebraic expression
Statistics
- Understanding and calculating the arithmetic mean
- Interpret data using tables and diagrams
Geometry
- Establish relationships between SI length measures
Alloprof – International System of Measurement (SI) prefixes (mathematics)
Convert units of measurement from mm to km
- Recognize and distinguish the notion of perimeter
Strategies for solving learning situations
Useful links to help you
Essential skills for high school:
High school mathematics :
- Revision Secondary 1 mathematics
- Revision Secondary 2 mathematics
- Revision Secondary 3 mathematics
- Revision of the mathematics technico sciences program (TS4)
- Revison of Culture, Society and Technology (CST4)
- Revison of the mathematics and natural sciences program (SN4)
- Revision of the mathematics technico sciences program (TS5)
- Revison of the mathematics natural sciences program (SN5)
- Tips to make homework easier
- Becoming a high school math tutor
- Find a math tutor
- Find an algebra tutor
- Find a science tutor
- Find a biology tutor
- Find a physics tutor
- Find a chemistry tutor
French in high school :
- Revision of French in Secondary 1
- Revision of French in Secondary 2
- Revision of French in Secondary 3
- Revision of French in Secondary 4
- Revision of French in Secondary 5
- Become a high school French tutor
- Find a French or French as a second language tutor
Secondary 4 History
English as a second language in secondary schools :
- Secondary Cycle 1 English as a Second Language
- Secondary Cycle 2 English as a Second Language
- Become an ESL tutor at the secondary level
- Tips to make homework easier
