Read and construct many different kinds of maps and scale drawings. Develop a sense of working with similar figures. Explore the idea of a path in the field. Learn to give instructions for distance and direction. Express paths graphically and computationally on paper.
Students use algebra in every other strand to symbolize, generalize and communicate.
Students collect, organize, record and explain information and make predictions using statistics and probability. This is essential in an information society. Students use real tools to measure real objects. Measurement also includes the use of nonstandard tools of measurement. Students investigate the connection between mathematics and the world around them in both a concrete and an abstract geometric sense.