GRADE NINE: the required elements

• Topics:
  • Perspective
  • Conics
  • Logarithms

    Note: Postpone to grade 10

  • Probability

    Note: Postpone to grade 10

  • Trigonometry

    Note: Brought forward from grade 8

  • Logic

    Note: Brought forward from grade 8

• Suggested Integrative Projects (one required):
  • Conics from Apollonius to Durer
  • Galileo and the pendulum clock
  • Vicenzo, equal temperament, the 12th root of 2
  • Marin Mersenne and musical arithmetic
  • Newton: will Halley's Comet destroy us?
  • Cartography, Mercator, etc.
  • John Dee, the Sidney circle, the Royal Society
  • Double entry bookeeping, John Recorde, logarithms
  • Cartesian coordinates and the notations of algebra
  • Kepler's Mysterium Cosmographicum and the Platonic Solids