Unit Title
Orchard Hideout
Teacher(s)
Subject and Grade
Mathematics MYP Year 5
Level
Time frame and
4 weeks
duration
Area of Interaction focus
Significant concept(s)
Which area of interaction will be our focus?
Why have we chosen this?
Use appropriate mathematical concepts and skills to solve problems in both familiar
and unfamiliar situations, including those in real life contexts
Select and apply general rules to correctly solve problems, including those in reallife contexts
C: Communication
Explain whether their results make sense in the context of the problem
Content
What knowledge and skills (from my course overview) are going to be used to enable the
student to respond to the guiding question?
What (if any) standards/skills are to be addressed? How can they be unpacked to develop
the significant concept(s) for stage 1?
Use the distance formula
Use the standard form of the circle equation (center and radius)
Determine the equation of a given circle
Use the midpoint formula
Use the formulas for circle area and perimeter
Understand the theorems of angles at the circumference and center of a circle.
Determine formulas for polygon circumscribed about a circle
Construct perpendicular bisector, angle bisector, incircle and circumcircle of triangles
Utilize algebraic skills (completing the square and equating coefficients) to transform
circle equations to and from ( x k ) 2 y h 2 r 2 and x 2 y 2 ax by c 0
Understand and appropriately use the trigonometric ratios
Use the inverse trigonometric functions appropriately
Approaches to learning
How will this unit contribute to the overall development of subject-specific and general
approaches to learning skills?
Learning experiences
Teaching strategies
Resources
What resources are available to us?
How will our classroom environment, local environment and/or the community be used to
facilitate students' experiences during the unit?
Interactive Mathematics Program Year 3: Orchard Hide Out; Key Curriculum Press
Maths for the CSF 10; Nelson, Chapter 2, 11 and 15
Maths Quest 11General Mathematics; Wiley, Chapter 8A, Ch 14 and Ch 15
Exploring Geometry with Geometers Sketchpad; Key Curriculum Press, activities on pages 15, 16, 17, 18,
19, 25, 26, 73, 75, 121, 123, 124, 125, 170, 171, 195, 199.