Like the earlier curriculum experienced by students, the senior secondary curriculum
adopts a strong focus on the processes that best enable students to understand mathematical
concepts and learn related skills. Attention to the mathematical processes is
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considered to be essential to a balanced mathematics program. The seven mathematical
processes identified in this curriculum are problem solving, reasoning and proving, reflecting,
selecting tools and computational strategies, connecting, representing, and communicating.
Each of the senior mathematics courses includes a set of expectations – referred to in this
document as the “mathematical process expectations” – that outline the knowledge and
skills involved in these essential processes. The mathematical processes apply to student
learning in all areas of a mathematics course.