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 prior, transferable and lasting.
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 2, 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 2 mathematics program.
Key skills for higher levels
The knowledge below represents the key knowledge required for success at higher levels. The PFEQ program and the PDA
Arithmetic
- Translate a situation into a ratio or rate
The difference between a ratio and a rate
- Recognize a situation of proportionality (direct or inverse variation) according to a context, table of values or graph.
Alloprof – Recognizing a direct or inverse situation
- Solve a proportionality situation (direct or inverse variation)
Alloprof – Recognizing a proportional situation
Algebra
- Translate an algebraic expression from context
Algebra – Lesson 1 – What is an algebraic expression?
Alloprof – Algebraic expressions: writing conventions (mathematics)
- Perform the following operations on algebraic expressions: addition, subtraction, multiplication by a constant, division by a constant, multiplication of 1st degree monomials.
Alloprof – Addition and subtraction of algebraic expressions (part 1)
Alloprof – Addition and subtraction of algebraic expressions (part 2)
Alloprof – algebraic multiplication
- Represent a situation using a 1st-degree equation with one unknown (meaning of equality)
Situation using a 1st degree equation
- Solve 1st degree equations with one unknown
Solving simple one-variable equations – Part 1
Solving simple one-variable equations – Part 2
- Represent a concrete situation globally using a graph
Probability
- Count the possible outcomes of a random experiment (networks, grids, diagrams)
Alloprof – How to build a tree diagram?
Calculate a probability using a tree diagram
- Carry out randomized experiments with or without discounting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qz3w3F5AVSs
Geometry
- Recognize and distinguish the notion of perimeter and area
Calculate the perimeter of a figure
The area of a figure CM1 – CM2
- Calculate the area of plane figures (quadrilaterals, triangles, disks and decomposable figures)
Allô prof – Area of discs and sectors
- Find missing measurements from plane figures (segment or area)
The search for missing measurements
- Calculate the lateral or total area of prisms, cylinders and pyramids
Lateral and total area of a right prism
Lateral and total area of a right cylinder
- Find missing measurements from the area of solids
Sec 2 – Solids – Finding a missing measurementSec 2 – Solides
Useful links to help
Savoirs essentiels au secondaire :
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
