Stoichiometry: The Chemistry 11 Skill Everything Else Rests On
When a Chemistry 11 mark drops, the cause is almost never the topic the student names. It is usually the mole.
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80 Credits: What BC Students Actually Need to Graduate
Most students in British Columbia find out how graduation actually works somewhere in the middle of Grade 11, usually from a friend, usually wrong. By then…
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Word Problems: Turning the Sentence Into the Equation
Ask a room of students which questions they would most like to be better at, and word problems win comfortably. The mathematics inside them is usually…
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Emerging, Developing, Proficient, Extending: Reading a BC Report Card
If your child is in Grade 7 and their report card says “Developing” in mathematics, what does that actually mean? Are they behind? Is that a…
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Making Parent Teacher Conferences Count: Questions Worth Asking
Parent teacher conferences in Surrey schools are usually short, often ten or fifteen minutes, and it is easy to leave with a pleasant impression and no…
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Which Grade 12 Math Do BC Universities Ask For?
Grade 12 mathematics is one of the few subject choices in British Columbia that can quietly decide which applications are possible two years later. It is…
The Grade 10 Numeracy Assessment: What BC Parents Should Know
Every student in British Columbia has to write the Grade 10 Numeracy Assessment before they graduate. It is not optional, it does not belong to any…
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Two Weeks Before School Starts: What Actually Helps
School starts again in a couple of weeks, and most families spend that time buying binders. That is fine, but it is not what decides how…
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Getting Ready for Grade 12: A Term by Term Plan for BC Students
Grade 12 carries more moving parts than any previous school year: course marks that feed directly into admissions, application deadlines, scholarship forms, and in many households…
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Why Fractions Still Cost Marks in Grade 11 Math
One of the most useful things a family can hear is that a Grade 11 student finding Pre-Calculus heavy going is frequently well able to handle…
