School boards may develop locally and offer two mathematics courses – a Grade 9 course and a Grade 10 course – that can be counted as two of the three compulsory credits in mathematics that a student is required to earn in order to obtain the Ontario Secondary School Diploma (see Program/Policy Memorandum No. 134, which outlines a revision to section 7.1.2,“Locally Developed Courses”, of Ontario Secondary Schools, Grades 9 to 12: Program and Diploma Requirements, 1999 [OSS]). The locally developed Grade 10 course may be designed to prepare students for success in the Grade 11 workplace preparation course. Ministry approval of the locally developed Grade 10 course would authorize the school board to use
it as the prerequisite for that course.