The Mathematics curriculum in 5e
Mathematics lessons take up 3h30 of a 5e student’s timetable, while science & technology takes 4h30, French 4h30, 3h for history-geography and 5h30 for the 2 modern languages. Building on the teaching from 6e, the aim here is to refine investigation and reasoning skills in order to develop students’ independence in solving algebraic and geometric problems.
Mathematics in detail
Built around 6 clearly identified skills: investigating, modelling, representing, reasoning, calculating and communicating, 5e mathematics lessons are organised around 4 key areas:
- Data organisation and management: working on proportionality (percentages, scales…), literal expressions (convergence), graphical activities (plane) and data representation and processing.
- Geometry: mastering plane figures (triangles, circles, parallelograms), constructing the symmetry of a point, a segment, a line or a circle, freehand sketching of right prisms or cylinders of revolution.
- Numbers and calculations: performing calculations, divisibility of whole numbers or a decimal, working with positive numbers in fractional form, calculating and understanding whole and decimal signed numbers, being introduced to the concept of an equation.
- Quantities and measurements: mastering the use of a protractor, calculating the perimeters of shapes, durations, times, areas (parallelogram, triangle and disc) and volumes (prism, cylinder of revolution).
End-of-year expectations for 5e in Mathematics
Students should use this 5e year to consolidate the knowledge and skills taught so far. In 4e, the pace will pick up and new concepts will appear.
They must be able to perform simple calculations, percentages, fractions, areas and volumes, and practise exact or approximate calculation, whether mentally, by hand or using instruments. They must be able to represent space and use concepts of plane geometry to prove statements.
In terms of data organisation and management, they must be able to collect and organise data, interpret it and represent it as a table, chart or graph. They must also understand the concepts of probability.
Students must also be able to write, refine and run an algorithmic program with conditional instructions and/or a loop.
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