Department Of Education Content Comparison of Curriculum from the West, Ontario, Quebec and the Atlantic Department Of Education June 6th, 2008 Prepared By: Mandy Banfield, Allison Gurnham, Gary Hunter, and Wes LeBlanc

Measurement, Data Management, and Probability Ontario is the only province that introduces the concept of “rate” with temperature change over time. Nova Scotia discusses tessellations in grade 5 and Quebec in cycle 3. Ontario does not discuss them but does mention designs with transformations in grade 7. The WNCP calls for tessllations to be done in grade 5 but this is not included in the Alberta document. Only Alberta uses money terms throughout measurement. This slide is for grades primary to three.

Measurement, Data Management, and Probability Nova Scotia, Ontario and Alberta cover The Pythagorean Theorem in grade 8. There is no mention of The Pythagorean Theorem in Quebec in grades 7-9.

Number Sense and Patterns and Relationships Outcomes specifically related to counting are finished in grade 5 in Alberta and Ontario, in grade 4 in Quebec, and in grade 2 in Nova Scotia. Division and multiplication are introduced in Nova Scotia, Quebec, and Ontario in grade 2 but not until grade 4 in Alberta. Much more detail as to what is to be counted in Ontario and Alberta than in Quebec and Nova Scotia.

Number Sense and Patterns and Relationships In Quebec students are introduced to powers, multiplication and division of fractions, and divisibility rules during grades 4-6 but not in other provinces.

Number Sense and Patterns and Relationships Rates and ratios are not done in Quebec and Ontario in these grades 4-6 but are done in Nova Scotia and Alberta. Finding patterns in tables and beginning to solve single step equations are not mentioned during grades 4-6 in Quebec but are in other provinces.

Number Sense and Patterns and Relationships Understanding irrational numbers, interrelating subsets of real numbers, and comparing and ordering real numbers are grade 7 to 9 outcomes in Nova Scotia but not in other provinces. Nova Scotia has outcomes relating to matrices in grades 7 to 9 but other provinces do not.

Number Sense and Patterns and Relationships Ontario derives the power of the power rule in grades 7 to 9 but other provinces do not. Polynomials, linear relation graphs, patterns from tables, and tables of values are not mentioned in the Quebec curriculum by the end of grade 9.

Layout of Curriculum Documents The Alberta document is divided into four strands; Number, Patterns and Relations, Shape and Space, and Statistics and Probability. The documents lists each outcome, and there is a supplementary document with examples for each outcomes.

Layout of Curriculum Documents The grades 1-8 curriculum in Ontario is divided into Number Sense and Numeration, Measurement, Geometry and Spatial Sense, Patterning and Algebra, and Data Management and Probability. In grade 9 it is divided into Number Sense and Algebra, Linear Relations, Analytic Geometry, and Measurement and Geometry.

Layout of Curriculum Documents The Ontario outcomes often include teaching strategies and examples directly in the outcomes. There is no supporting document to the outcomes.

Layout of Curriculum Documents The Quebec document is structured using three cycles instead of grades, cycle one is grades P-2, cycle two is 3-4, and cycle 3 is grades 5-6. The document is divided into five strands; Arithmetic, Geometry, Measurement, Statistics, and Probability. The Junior high document is not divided by strands, but focuses on three competencies.