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This website will be used to post information for IB Math Studies and IB Theory of Knowledge.
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This course is designed to build confidence and encourage an appreciation of mathematics in students who do not anticipate a need for mathematics in their future studies. Algebra 1, Geometry, and Algebra 2 are pre-requisites. Some students have also completed Pre-Cal. We will become familiar with higher levels of study in several useful and important topics in mathematics: probability, statistics, calculus, financial math, logic, functions, trig and geometry. Our aim is to create students that:
• appreciate the multicultural and historical perspectives of all group 5 (math) courses
• enjoy the course and develop an appreciation of the elegance, power and usefulness of math
• develop logical, critical and creative thinking
• develop an understanding of the principles and nature of the subject
• employ and refine powers of abstraction and generalization
• develop patience and persistence in problem solving
• appreciate the consequences arising from technological developments
• transfer skills to alternative situations and to future developments
• communicate clearly and confidently in a variety of contexts
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Is the truth really out there?
The TOK course, a flagship element in the Diploma Program, encourages critical thinking. Its core content is questions like these: What do you know and what do you only believe? What counts as knowledge? What are its limits? What is the value of knowledge? What are the implications of having, or not having, knowledge? What do I know? Am I justified in claiming to know what I know?
Students entering the Diploma Program typically have 16 years of experience and more than 10 years of formal education behind them. They have accumulated a vast amount of knowledge, beliefs, and opinions from academic disciplines and their lives outside the classroom. In TOK they have the opportunity to step back from this relentless acquisition of knowledge in order to consider knowledge issues. (IB TOK Subject Guide p. 3) At the center of the course is the student as knower.
Students will explore the Ways of Knowing, the Areas of Knowledge, Knowledge Issues and the connections between their own knowledge and experiences and the learning process. Students will complete 2 IB assessments – an essay on a prescribed topic and a presentation that explores a knowledge issue – in addition to classroom assignments.
The course will include discussion and support of student Extended Essays. Seniors should be working on essays currently and will receive help in the Fall. Juniors will have time in the Spring to consider topics, discuss methods, and begin work.
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Hillsboro Comprehensive High School
Christine Doza
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