Math Workplace
MA: WORKPLACE MATHEMATICS 9​
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​Admission: Recommendation of Math 8 Teacher and School Based Team
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Workplace Math at Palmer is the “real-life math” option. It’s made for students who can learn better with hands-on, practical examples or who are thinking about going into trades, apprenticeships, or straight into work after high school. Instead of focusing on hard algebra or super abstract math, it teaches useful everyday skills like measuring things, reading graphs, understanding data, basic geometry, probability, and managing money. Students usually move from Workplace Math 9 (if recommended by their teacher) into Workplace Math 10, then 11, then 12, building skills that are helpful for real jobs and daily life. It still counts for graduation, but it doesn’t meet the math requirements for university programs that need higher-level math—so if you might want to study sciences, engineering, business, or anything math-heavy later on, another math path would be a better fit.
Picture of a Palmer Math Teacher's Whiteboard
Picture a the Math Textbook used in Palmer
MA: WORKPLACE MATHEMATICS 10​
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​​Recommended: Workplace Math 9 OR Math 9 with recommendation of Math 9 Teacher
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This course equips students with the practical math skills and critical thinking needed for most trades and for entering the workforce directly after high school. Key topics include computational fluency, geometry, measurement, data interpretation, graphing, probability, trigonometry, and financial literacy.
MA: WORKPLACE MATHEMATICS 11​
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​Recommended: Workplace Mathematics 10
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This course gives students with the mathematical knowledge and critical-thinking skills needed for most trades and for direct entry into the workforce. The core topics include computational fluency, three-dimensional objects, rates of change, graph analysis, probability, statistics, and financial literacy. Throughout the course, students will continue to develop the mathematical processes and skills established in previous math courses.
