Getting Ready for Grade 9 Math
Eight tutor-led lessons that rebuild the Grade 7-8 foundations, so destreamed Grade 9 math (MTH1W) feels like review, not survival.
Who it's for: Students finishing Grade 8 and heading into destreamed Grade 9 math (MTH1W) who want to walk in confident in fractions, algebra, and linear relations from day one.
The 8-lesson plan
Slides are what your tutor teaches from in the live lesson. The practice module is homework — do it before the next lesson.
Rock-Solid Numbers: Fractions, Integers & Rational Number Fluency
Rebuild fast, accurate arithmetic with fractions, integers, and decimals using order of operations, the toolkit every later lesson leans on.
Powers & Roots: Exponent Laws and Square Roots
Master the exponent laws Grade 9 leans on hardest -- product, quotient, power-of-a-power, and zero exponents, with negative exponents introduced live -- then recognize perfect squares and estimate irr
Ratios, Rates, Proportions & Percent in Real Life
Convert confidently between fraction, decimal, and percent form, then solve ratio, unit-rate, proportion, and percent problems the way Grade 9 word problems demand -- percent-of-a-number applied forwa
The Language of Algebra: Expressions, Substitution & Algebra Habits
Build the algebra habits confident Grade 9 students have: translating words into expressions, collecting like terms, and evaluating by substitution.
Solving Linear Equations: One Step to Many, Both Sides
Isolate the variable through one-step, two-step, both-sides, and fraction/decimal-coefficient equations, and build the habit of verifying every solution by substitution.
Linear Relations: Tables, Graphs, Slope & the Equation of a Line
Turn a growing pattern into a four-quadrant table and graph, find the rate of change/slope from a table and from two bare points, and write -- and graph -- the equation of a line, the full relations t
Measurement: Area, Volume, Surface Area & the Pythagorean Theorem
Find the area of composite 2D shapes built from rectangles, triangles, and circles, calculate volume and surface area of prisms and cylinders using nets, and apply the Pythagorean theorem to both a mi
Data Basics: Statistics, Graphs & Probability
Calculate mean/median/mode/range, read and sanity-check graphs, describe scatter-plot relationships, and apply basic probability -- including a fully-taught tree-diagram skill for compound events -- t