Mathematics

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MYP0: MATHEMATICS

Unit 1: Natural numbers

Through the activities students will do their own research on history of Natural numbers.
Students will use different forms of mathematical representation of large numbers. Students will develop
graphing skills. Students will develop deductive and inductive reasoning: applying general rules to particular
situations and developing general rules from particular data inductive reasoning.
Students will be communicating a mathematical way of thinking in solving problems using BODMAS.

KEY CONCEPT: Form

RELATED CONCEPTS: Representation, Systems

GLOBAL CONTEXT: Orientation in space and time

STATEMENT OF INQUIRY: Different systems and forms of representation develop as civilizations evolve.
Main Content Addressed:
● Set of Natural numbers
● Identification of large numbers
● Comparing Natural numbers and Number line
● Rounding Natural numbers to the nearest ten, hundred, thousand
● Adding and basic properties of adding numbers
● Subtracting Natural numbers
● Multiplying Natural numbers and basic properties of multiplying numbers
● Distributivity of multiplication to addition
● Divisibility of Natural numbers
● Priority of operations

Objectives A, C

ATL skills:
Communication – communication skills
Thinking – transfer skills

Unit 2: Divisibility of natural numbers

Through the activities of finding rules for divisibility, students will built up much of the mathematical foundation.
KEY CONCEPT: Logic

RELATED CONCEPTS: System, Change, Equivalence

GLOBAL CONTEXT: Globalization and sustainability

STATEMENT OF INQUIRY: Different number systems just change the form of equivalent values.

Main Content Addressed:

● Divisibility by 10,5,2,3 i 9
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 ● Prime and composite numbers
● Prime factorization
● Divisors. Highest common divisor
● Multiples. Lowest common multiple

Objectives A, B,

ATL skills:
Self-management – organization skills
Thinking – critical thinking skills

Unit 3: Set of points in a plane

Through the activities of finding differences between lines, line segments and planes students will get better
understanding of basic geometry. Through the activities of finding links between geometry and art, students will
learn about formulas for perimeter and area for special types of triangles and quadrilaterals.

KEY CONCEPT: Form

RELATED CONCEPTS: Measurement

GLOBAL CONTEXT: Personal and cultural expression

STATEMENT OF INQUIRY: Artistry and creativity are enhanced through an understanding of how measurement
helps to define forms.
Main Content Addressed:
● Plane, line, semi-segment, segment
● Parallel and perpendicular lines
● Measuring unit for length
● Bisector of a segment
● Circle and circumference
● Types of angles
● Complementary and supplementary angles
● Symmetries
● Types of Triangles and formula and the description of the perimeter of a triangle
● Quadrilaterals and formula for the perimeter of a quadrilaterals
● Description of the surface area and measuring units
● Surface area of a rectangle and square

Objectives A, C, D

ATL skills:
Thinking – creative thinking skills
Thinking – transfer skills

Unit 4: Fractions
KEY CONCEPT: Form

RELATED CONCEPTS: Quantity, Representation

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GLOBAL CONTEXT: Identities and Relationships

STATEMENT OF INQUIRY: Simplified quantities represented in a form of a fraction can help us understand
human connections within various communities.
Main Content Addressed:
● Graphical representation of fractions
● Proper and improper fractions
● Mixed numbers
● Expanding and reducing fractions
● Fractions as a part of a group
● Comparing fractions with like denominators
● Adding and subtracting fractions with like denominators

Objectives A, C

ATL skills:
Communication – communications skills
Thinking – critical thinking skills

Unit 5: Decimal numbers

Through the activities of graphing, converting and applying basic rules, students will learn why people created
fractions and decimals.
KEY CONCEPT: Form

RELATED CONCEPTS: Equivalence, Representation

GLOBAL CONTEXT: Globalization and sustainability

STATEMENT OF INQUIRY: Equivalent values expressed in different forms can be used to

describe and calculate the relationship between quantities.

Main Content Addressed:

● Decimal fractions
● Converting decimal into fractions and vice versa
● Decimals on the number line
● Comparing decimal numbers
● Rounding decimal numbers
● Adding and subtracting decimal numbers
● Multiplying decimals by the power of ten
● Multiplying decimal numbers
● Dividing decimal numbers

Objectives A, B, D

ATL skills:
Self-management – reflective skills
Thinking – transfer skills

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MYP1: MATHEMATICS

Unit 1: Fractions
Through the activities students will do their own research on history of fractions. Students will use different forms
of mathematical representation of fraction. Students will develop graphing skills. Students will develop deductive
and inductive reasoning: applying general rules to particular situations and developing general rules from
particular data inductive reasoning.
Students will be communicating a mathematical way of thinking in solving problems using BODMAS.
KEY CONCEPT: Logic

RELATED CONCEPTS: Quantity, Simplification

GLOBAL CONTEXT: Identities and relationships

STATEMENT OF INQUIRY: Using logic to simplify and manipulate quantities can help us explore human
connections within families, communities and cultures.

Main Content Addressed:

● Mixed numbers and improper fractions
● Comparing and ordering fractions
● Adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing fractions
● Order of operations; Fractions in equations

Objectives A

ATL skills:
Self-management – reflection skills
Thinking – critical thinking skills

Unit 2: Triangle
Through the activities of finding links between geometry and art, students will learn about different types of angles
and special types of triangles.
KEY CONCEPT: Forms

RELATED CONCEPTS: Pattern, Equivalence

GLOBAL CONTEXT: Personal and cultural expressions

STATEMENT OF INQUIRY: Understanding form and shape patterns enhance creativity.

Main Content Addressed:

● Vertices, sides and angles of a triangle
● Special types of triangles
● The interior and exterior angles of a triangle
● Constructing a line (axis) of symmetry
● Constructing of some angles
● Three basic constructions of triangles
● Triangle congruence
● Area of a triangle

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Objectives A, B, C, D

ATL skills:
Self-management – organization skills
Thinking – creative thinking skills

Unit 3: Integers
Through the activities of measuring time through history students will research the development of concept of a
negative number.
KEY CONCEPT: Forms

RELATED CONCEPTS: Quantity, Representation

Orientation in space and time

STATEMENT OF INQUIRY: Being able to represent different forms of quantities has helped humans explore
and describe our planet.

Main Content Addressed:

● Positive and negative numbers

● Graphing on a number line
● Opposite numbers
● Absolute value of an integer
● Comparing integers
● Adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing integers
● Extracting the common factor
● Using brackets in algebra
● Solving equations

Objectives A, C, D

ATL skills:
Research – media literacy skills
Communication – communication skills

Unit 4: Rational Numbers

Through the activities of graphing, converting and applying basic rules with rational numbers, students will learn
why people created fractions and decimals.

KEY CONCEPT: Forms

RELATED CONCEPTS: Representation, Equivalence

GLOBAL CONTEXT: Globalization and sustainability

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STATEMENT OF INQUIRY: Form of rational numbers represents quantities in real-world context.

Main Content Addressed:

● Positive and negative rational numbers
● Graphing on a number line
● Opposite numbers
● Absolute value of a rational number
● Comparing rational numbers
● Adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing rational numbers

Objectives: A

ATL skills:
Social – collaboration skills
Thinking – critical thinking skills

Unit 5: Linear Equation with One Unknown

Through the activities of solving word problems, students will research why people created linear equations.

KEY CONCEPT: Logic

RELATED CONCEPTS: Generalization, Models, Patterns

GLOBAL CONTEXT: Scientific and technical innovation

STATEMENT OF INQUIRY: A logical process helps to model and generalize patterns in the natural world.

Main Content Addressed:

● Solving linear equations with one unknown
● Modelling real-life problems through linear equations
● Problem solving

Objectives A, B

ATL skills:
Thinking – transfer skills

Unit 6: Quadrilateral
Through the activities of constructing tangram, puzzles students will research about different types of
quadrilaterals.

KEY CONCEPT: Relationships

RELATED CONCEPTS: Measurement, Generalization

GLOBAL CONTEXT: Orientation in space and time

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STATEMENT OF INQUIRY: Generalizing relationships between measurements can help solve problems
involving 2D-shapes.

Main Content Addressed:

● Vertices, sides, angles and diagonals of a quadrilateral
● Special types of quadrilaterals
● The interior angles in a quadrilateral
● Parallelogram
● Area of a parallelogram
● Trapezoid
● Area of a trapezoid

Objectives A

ATL skills:
Self-management – organization skills
Thinking – creative thinking skills

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MYP2: MATHEMATICS

Unit 1: Coordinate system, Ratio, Proportion

Through the activities of communicating with geographic coordinate system, students will understand Cartesian
coordinate system. They will be able to develop graphing skills.

KEY CONCEPT: Logic

RELATED CONCEPTS: Equivalence, Quantity, Simplification

GLOBAL CONTEXT: Identities and relationships

STATEMENT OF INQUIRY: Using a logical process to simplify quantities and establish equivalence can help
analyse competition and cooperation.

Main Content Addressed:

● Coordinate system on a line
● Ordered pair
● Rectangular coordinate system in a plane
● Ratio
● Proportion
● Proportional quantities and its graph
● Solving proportion problems
● Inverse proportion
● Solving inverse proportion problems
● Graph of inverse proportion

Objectives A, C

ATL skills:
Thinking – creative thinking skills
Thinking – transfer skills

Unit 2: Percentages, Data analysis, Probability

Through the researches on different topics, students will learn how to create charts, diagrams and interpret
data and possible outcomes in future events.

KEY CONCEPT: Relationships

RELATED CONCEPTS: Representation, Justification

GLOBAL CONTEXT: Fairness and development

STATEMENT OF INQUIRY: Data analysis and probability are powerful models for developing and simplifying
global perspectives and relationships.

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Main Content Addressed:

● Percentages, converting percentages to fraction and decimal numbers and vice versa
● Solving problems involving percentages
● Graphical analysis and representation (pie charts, histogram, line graphs, scatter plots)
● Concept of a probability
● Simple probability problems

Objectives A, B, C

ATL skills:
Research – information literacy skills
Thinking – critical thinking skills

Unit 3: Polygons
Through the activities of drawing polygons using drawing instruments, students begin to broaden their knowledge
on different types of polygons. Students will research tangram puzzles.
KEY CONCEPT: Forms

RELATED CONCEPTS: Pattern, Generalization

GLOBAL CONTEXT: Identities and relationships

STATEMENT OF INQUIRY: Patterns and geometric relationships in different regular polygons can be
generalized into formulae.

Main Content Addressed:

● Diagonals of polygons. Number of diagonals
● Sum of all interior and exterior angles of a polygon.
● Regular polygons. Measure of an interior and exterior angle in regular polygons
● Constructing regular polygon
● Perimeter and area of polygons

Objectives C

ATL skills:
Thinking – critical thinking skills

Unit 4: Similar triangles

By finding patterns and applying the rules of similar triangles, students will calculate missing lengths in
geometric tasks and in real-life problems, such as: finding height of a building or a person, using lengths of
their shadows.

KEY CONCEPT: Relationships

RELATED CONCEPTS: Generalization, Measurement

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GLOBAL CONTEXT: Scientific and technical innovation

STATEMENT OF INQUIRY: Generalizing relationships between measurements can develop principles,

processes and solutions.

Main Content Addressed:

● Similarity theorems: Angle-angle theorem, Side-angle-side theorem, Side-side-side theorem
● Calculating unknown sides in similar triangles
● Applying similarity theorems in real-life problems

Objectives A, D

ATL skills:
Social – collaboration skills
Thinking – transfer skills

Unit 5: System of two equations with two unknowns

Through the activities of graphing, students begin to broaden their knowledge of some word problems from a
real life. Students will research how to use linear equations to predict real life situations.

KEY CONCEPT: Relationships

RELATED CONCEPTS: Model, Representation

GLOBAL CONTEXT: Fairness and development

STATEMENT OF INQUIRY: Representing relationships with models can help decision-making in solving
problems using mathematical strategies.

Main Content Addressed:

● All possible solutions of a system of linear equations with two unknown
● Method of substitution
● Method of the opposite coefficients

Objectives A, D

ATL skills:
Thinking – creative thinking skills
Self-management – reflection skills

Unit 6: Linear function

Through the activities of communicating with graphical representation of linear function in physics students will
research linear model. Students will research the properties of a line in a coordinate plane.

KEY CONCEPT: Relationships

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RELATED CONCEPTS: Representation, Model, Change

GLOBAL CONTEXT: Globalization and sustainability

STATEMENT OF INQUIRY: Linear models represent correlation between variables.

Main Content Addressed:

● The concept of linear function
● Input and output values
● Graph of linear function
● Falling and growing function
● Slope formula
● Point-slope formula
● Implicit and explicit form of equation of a line
● Parallel lines
● Intersection of two lines
● Solving the system of two linear equations with two unknown graphically

Objectives A, B

ATL skills:
Communication – communication skills
Thinking – critical thinking skills

Unit 7: Circle and circumference

Through the activities students will investigate the origin of number € and its calculation methods through
history.
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KEY CONCEPT: Logic

RELATED CONCEPTS: Pattern, Generalization

GLOBAL CONTEXT: Identities and relationships

STATEMENT OF INQUIRY: There is logic in creative constructions around us.

Main Content Addressed:

● Radius and diameter
● Relations of two circumferences of the same plane
● Relations of a circumference and a line of the same plane
● Circle slices: sector and segment
● Central and inscribed angle. Inscribed/central angle theorem
● Thales theorem
● Perimeter of a circle
● Area of a circle. Arc length

Objectives: A
ATL skills:
Thinking – transfer skills

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MYP3: MATHEMATICS

Unit 1: Squaring, Powers, Roots

Through the activities students will learn how to find squares, roots and powers of numbers
-using table of squares of the numbers from 1 to 100
-using calculator to speed things up
Students will discuss patterns for multiplying and dividing by powers 10.

KEY CONCEPT: Form

RELATED CONCEPTS: Quantity, Representation, Simplification

GLOBAL CONTEXT: Orientation in space and time

STATEMENT OF INQUIRY: Representing and simplifying quantities in different forms can help explore
remarkable discoveries and developments

Main Content Addressed:

● Squaring numbers. Table of squares.
● Graph and properties of the quadratic function
● Squaring sum and difference. The difference of two squares
● Quadratic equation
● Extracting the root
● Partial rooting
● The graph of the function of extracting the root
● Operations with square roots
● Rationalization of the denominator
● Powers

Objectives A, B, C

ATL skills:
Social – collaboration skills
Thinking – creative thinking skills

Unit 2: Pythagoras’s theorem

Through the activities of researching and investigating patterns, students get to know how people made use of
mathematical concepts to solve practical problems in ancient times Students will learn how to recognize simple
patterns in different situations.

KEY CONCEPT: Relationships

RELATED CONCEPTS: Measurement, Generalization

GLOBAL CONTEXT: Scientific and technical innovation

STATEMENT OF INQUIRY: Generalizing relationships between measurements can develop principles,

processes and solutions.

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Main Content Addressed:

● Right triangle. Pythagoras’s theorem.

● Applying the Pythagoras’s theorem on isosceles, equilateral and scalene triangle
● Applying the Pythagoras’s’ theorem on square, rectangle, rhombus and isosceles trapezoid

Objectives A, B, D

ATL skills:
Thinking – transfer skills

Unit 3: Real numbers

Students will research the origin of rational numbers with periodic decimal expansion and irrational numbers with
non-repeating expansion.
KEY CONCEPT: Relationships

RELATED CONCEPTS: Pattern, Generalization

GLOBAL CONTEXT: Globalization and sustainability

STATEMENT OF INQUIRY: Recognizing and classifying numbers give a deeper understanding of different
number systems.

Main Content Addressed:

● Natural numbers. Integers.
● Finite and infinite periodical rational numbers. Irrational numbers.
● Real numbers.
● Graphing on the number line

Objectives A, D

ATL skills:
Research – information literacy skills

Unit 4: Sets of points in space

Through the activities students begin to broaden their knowledge on different types of symmetries. Students
will research the links between motion geometry and art-architecture.

KEY CONCEPT: Form

RELATED CONCEPTS: Pattern, Space

GLOBAL CONTEXT: Personal and cultural expression

STATEMENT OF INQUIRY: An understanding of patterns created by forms in space can enhance creativity.

Main Content Addressed:

● Line symmetry

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 ● Central symmetry
● Rotation
● Vectors
● Translation
● Adding and subtracting vectors.
● Composition of translation of a plane

Objectives A, B

ATL skills:
Thinking – critical thinking skills
Thinking – transfer skills

Unit 5: Three-dimensional shapes

Students will find out which dimension (radius and height) has the greatest effect on surface area and volume.

KEY CONCEPT: Form

RELATED CONCEPTS: Measurement, Generalization

GLOBAL CONTEXT: Orientation In Space And Time

STATEMENT OF INQUIRY: Generalizing relationships between measurements can help explore the formation
of human and natural landscapes.

Main Content Addressed:

● Surface area of a parallelepiped (cube and cuboids)
● Surface area of a prism
● Surface area of a pyramid
● Surface area of a cylinder and a cone
● Surface area of a sphere
● Volume of a parallelepiped
● Volume of a prism and a pyramid
● Volume of a cylinder and a cone
● Volume of a sphere

Objectives A, C

ATL skills:
Social – collaboration skills
Thinking – transfer skills

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