Intro-1 Welcome. This page contains some general math support material for the entire Grade 10 Essential Course. Bookmark your favourite links. Use this the menu to select individual Grade 10 Essential Units. Intro-2 Contact Me. Intro-3 Course Outline and Overview
Course Outline. Here is the general course outline. Class rules, topics, assessment, etc. Movie: Course Overview. A movie about the course and its lessons; what you will learn! Grade 10 Essential Reference Notes.(my Cheat Sheet!) Do your own!
Intro 4. How to study. Crash Course – How to Study! Make sure to watch this comprehensive series of videos!! Intro-5 Course Reference Notes (Study Notes).
Grade 10 Essential Study Notes. Any course of 100 hours, Math or otherwise, should easily be able to be condensed into study notes on a single two-sided sheet of paper. The real value of reference notes is in their production by you; your taking a hundred hours of lessons and condensing them into succinct concepts and examples. Read them on the bus, before bed, with a friend, …. Course Reference Notes Prior Grades. Grade 9 Study Notes (Math 10F); Grade 8 Study Notes.
Intro-6 Grade 10 Essential Readiness. Are you ready for Grade 10? Try this ‘Inventory’ a few questions from previous grades! Don’t panic if you don’t recall all of them! Grade 10 Essential Inventory. Here is another Grade 7 and 8 Review
| Intro-8 Multiplication Tables. If you do not know your times tables in Grade 10, math will be absolutely brutal. But with four hours of effort you will be a whiz! |
| Times Tables. Knowing your 10 X 10 Multiplication Tables is the key to Math success. |
| Multiplication Facts Movie. Why it is so very important to know the ‘times table’ and how to make it easy! |
| Multiplication Facts Movie. Watch this multiplication table movie a few times, it gets faster and faster. Check out this Playlist. |
| Times Tables. Make sure you know these. Lots of different ones here. Seriously, Grade 9 will be brutal if you do not know your times tables. Just do it. |
| Multiplication Flash Cards. Need to practice your multiplication tables to review? Practice here. |
| On-Line Quiz – Multiplication. Quiz yourself, get a score! Switch over to add, subtract, or divide quizzes too! |
| The Multiplication YouTube Channel. An awesome way to learn the Multiplication Tables. Sit with family, sing it out! Personally I run the videos at 1.5 times the speed! |
| Race Yourself: Practice Times Tables Flash Cards. Select a skill level. Fun for the family |
Intro-11 Grade 10 Essentials Mental Math Guide. This document is a supplement to the Grade 10 Essential Mathematics curriculum and is intended to help students develop strategies to perform mental calculation
| Intro 12. Practice Tests and Exams |
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Distance Learning Website. Grade 10 Essential Mid-Term Practice Exam. A great practice exam for the Distance Learning mid-term. AnsKey. Grade 10 Final Exam Practice. A great final exam practice exam from the Manitoba distance learning site. AnsKey. Mid-Term Practice Test. Some questions may be unfamiliar if the a unit has not been completed |
| Practice Quiz. Our Practice Quiz for Units B – E (-). Practice Quiz Movie. A movie of the practice quiz we did. Notice lots of upgrade math too! Grade 10 Essential Course Practice Questions. Another 20 pages of practice questions with answers. Several Review Videos. A collection over the years of some review videos I have done of some of our review handouts. Of course videos are not a good way to learn! Too much information, not enough of your own thinking. A good review though. |
Intro-13 Grade 9 and Prior Support Material
Upgrade Website. My upgrade website, links to math from before Grade 9 with which you may want to refresh yourself. Give it a quick look at least. Grade 9 Website (High School). My webpage for Grade 9 stuff. Check it out. Lots of links to movies and stuff. Grade 9 (Adult Education). My preferred website for Grade 9 for Adult Learners.
Intro-15 Manitoba Distance Learning. Practically every course taught in Manitoba is on-line on ‘Merlin BlackBoard’ ! Even Biology, Chemistry, History, English, .. View the preview pages. Intro-16 Alberta Distance Learning
Learn Alberta – Math Review Grade 5! This is some really good stuff! Grade 5 stuff is important too, especially if you need a quick review! Don’t be bashful! Check it out. I forgot most my Grade 5 stuff! Select a lesson at bottom left. Fun for the whole family.
Learn Alberta – Math Review Grade 6. There is lots of really important basics in grade5 to 7 that even I like to review. Checkout the site. Learn Alberta – Grades 10-12 Math Glossary! A wonderful resource Intro-20 Purple Math Index – Table of Contents. A great one-stop source for Grade 9 to 12 Mathematics. BEGINNING Tends to be Grade 9 – 10, INTERMEDIATE tends to be Grade 10 – 11, ADVANCED tends to be Grade 12 for Manitoba curriculum and subject to what stream you are taking (Applied vs Pre-Calculus) Intro-21 Math is Fun. Another great portal for math of all grades. Share with your family! Intro-24 Mathematics Dictionaries. Lots of wonderful glossaries with graphics and animations.
Shodor Dictionary. A great dictionary for academic high school.
Middle Years Dictionary. More designed for Junior High, but more pictures!
A Mathematics Glossary. A Wonderful Mathematics Glossary for all grades! Select the appropriate level. Lots of interactive explanations too! [Java intensive]
‘Math is Fun’ Illustrated Dictionary.
Intro-30 NW Territories Literacy Website. Has lots of adult oriented Literacy and Math stuff:
Simply Math. A great printable textbook and review of Grades 5 to 8. Home Math Workbook. Household Math: Reading Meters, Paying Bills, banking, etc. Printable. Kitchen Math. Math in the kitchen; buying groceries, coupons, kitchen measurements and fractions, etc. Money Math Workbook. Income, Taxes, Savings, Loans, etc.
Intro-31 Virtual Nerd. A wonderful collection of Videos explaining all different types and grade levels of math! In this course you are likely most interested in the Pre-Algebra Section.
| Intro-32 Math Interactives. Some truly great sites with interactive activities to explain concepts. You must see all of these! especially if you are a visual learner! (You may need to try a different browser or device if some do not appear to load.) |
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Alberta Education Math Interactives. National Library of Virtual Manipulatives. PhET Interactive Simulations. More wonderful Java Apps to interactively explain Math and Science Ideas. Shodor Interactives. Even more interactive java manipulatives. |
Intro-33 KhanAcademy Math Videos. Lots of great videos , so many that you would want to search for the subject you want. There is also an App for ‘KhanAcademy’ on tablets. Intro-34 Calculator Practice. Do you know how to use your calculator? Try these couple exercises! You will be surprised how unfamiliar you are with your calculator. By Grade 9 you start to use technology to assist your arithmetic.
Gr10 Essential Calculator Practice Calculator Practice 1. Calculator Practice 2.
Intro -34a. Get a Decent Calculator! A decent scientific calculator is essential. A $3 Dollarama Calculator is not sufficient.
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- Decent Calculator Movie. Get one that shows the entire expression you type in, just like you write it! Check out the movie that explains what to get: Decent Calculator. Get one that does fractions too if you have vowed to never learn those.
- Desmos Scientific Calculator. A wonderful free calculator that works in your browser! No App to download, but you need internet connection of course..
DOWNLOADS. There are several good calculators to download as a ‘free’ App on your mobile device too! Desmos Scientific Calculator: On Google Play; on IOS (Apple Store) Geogebra Scientific Calculator on Google Play (Android), on IOS Play Store
ON-LINE CALCULATORS. Here are several calculators that require no download and just work in your browser if you have an internet connection: Geogebra Scientific Calculator On-Line, or Desmos Scientific Calculator On-Line. (Book mark those on your device)
HANDHELD CALCULATORS. But for $14 you can get a perfectly good scientific calculator at Walmart that does everything without messing about on a mobile device. Here is a typical Walmart Scientific Calculator for less than $15, Scientific, Multi-Line, and has an Ab/c button that does fractions!
Intro-35 Grade 10 Essential YouTube Playlists. Checkout all my Grade 10 Essential Math YouTube PlayLists by Unit on my YouTube Channel. For each curriculum unit of instruction I make a playlist of the ideal videos that cover the unit. Click on the playlist, turn up the speakers, relax and learn. Make sure you stay with my playlist and don’t wander off to related and suggested videos! Intro-36 Algebra Refresher Text Book. A great Algebra Resource for all the way up to Grade 11. Intro 37 An entire 560 Page Grade 8 Text book! Intro-33 The Math Page. A great resource for all grades of Math! Intro-35 Glencoe – Study Sheets. Lots of great Worksheets with Explanations and Answers.
| History of Math. |
| BBC Podcasts – A Brief History of Maths. This is truly wonderful. 10 Audio Podcasts. Got 40 minutes to spare? Got an IPod? Way better the rap music! |
| Mathematician Biographies. A great site! Learn about the history of a mathematician or of a mathematics subject! Mathematicians are people too! Sometimes understanding the lifetimes spent to develop ideas makes math much more exciting. |
| BBC – History of Maths – Video series. A really wonderful series of four videos from British Broadcasting on the history of Mathematics. |
Intro-38 Thinking of dropping math?? Check out all the career choices you lose if you drop math or just take the ‘easy’ math! Of course you should check with your supports services counsellor if you want the full advice! Intro-40 General Math Fun.
Hangman Game with Math Words. Who Wants to be a Millionaire-Multiplication Game. Multiplication Game. Fun! Connect 4 Game. Don’t take too many breaks but this is fun Math on Game Shows – YouTubePlaylist. Some fun math vids from Jeopardy, Millionaire, etc. Glencoe – BrainPops ! Try some fun animated movies about mathematics. (Needs ‘ Shockwave’ so may not work on all lab computers! Also need headsets to hear the movies) A funny IQ Test Quia.com – Thousands of fun on-line games (in many subjects too, not just math) Curious Math Videos. A YouTube playlist of some curious math and curious math people. Math Games (for your phone). Math games for mobile devices (HTML5) Math Worksheets. Make your own custom math worksheets (with answers!)! Subtract, divide, multiply, …everything. A zillion of them
Intro 41. WHISKY TANGO FOXTROT file.. My ‘What the Heck’ file! Some weird brain farts that I get in assignments and tests.