I see that pathways are in the textbook but i haven't seen anything about it in the assessment standards or sample questions. Are you guys covering them? To what extent?
Thanks,
Kim
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Re: Pathways
Hello Kim, this is my first time teaching the Math 30-2 and I am covering it just in case. NOt to a great extent but with some examples in class so they will have seen it before. I teach by distance and it is mentioned in the module book #3 that I follow along when I am making my notes for teaching.
Re: Pathways
Hi Kim,
I taught pathways both by using the "count the paths" method as well as the FCP method. I only assessed them on the simple rectangle and the two rectangles put together at a corner. I didn't use any that had holes or didn't go from one corner to the opposite corner.
I didn't think my students found the pathways very difficult though so it didn't take very much of my time.
Re: Pathways
I received this information at an ERLC session in December put on by Jenny Kim and Deanna Shostak. The statements in quotation marks are taken from a document they handed out.
Pathways is not an outcome in either 30-1 or 30-2. It could be tested as application of permutations with repetitions.
Math 30-2 SO5 (Prob) - "simple 2D pathways are applications of repeated permutations" (this means that only rectangles without holes or overlaps will appear on the diploma).
Math 30-1 SO2 (PCBT) "Single 2-dimensional pathways may be used as an application of repetition of like elements" (again, this means 2D rectangles without holes or overlap will appear on the diploma)
Math 30-1 SO4 (PCBT) "No pathways as applications of Pascal's Triangle"