French participating school and Mathematics topics
Collège du Parc«Collège
du parc» is a lower secondary school in Sucy en Brie.
Sucy en Brie is a town
in the subdivision 94 (Val-de-Marne) nearby Créteil, with 25000 inhabitants.
Main of these inhabitants is in upper or middle class.
Webpage : http://www.ac-creteil.fr/clgduparcsucy/
610 pupils
| division |
Number of pupils |
| 6ème (11 years old) |
147 |
| 5ème (12 years old) |
166 |
| 4ème (13 years old) |
144 |
| 3ème (14 years old) |
153 |
One class with
rugby option since year of “5ème”.
| Subjects |
Number of teachers |
| Music |
2 |
| Biology |
3 |
| English |
5 |
| Fine arts |
1 |
| French and Latin and Ancient Greek |
9 |
| German |
1 |
| History and geography and civics |
5 |
| Mathematics |
6 |
| Physics |
2 |
| Spanish |
2 |
| Sportive education |
6 |
| Technology |
3 |
There
are also 1 documentalist and 7 education assistants.
At the end of year of “3ème”84,5% of pupils succeed school
leaving certificate: general exam taken at fifteen (GCSE).
75% of pupils move
up to “lycée” , fifth form.
18% of pupils move up to vocational school.
4%
of pupils repeat their year.
3% of pupils go to apprenticeship (CFA).
Mathematical topics
in the
period September - November 2008
5ème (12 years old)Chapter 1: Numerical works
- Knowledge and use of the following words: sum, difference, product,
quotient, terms, factors, numerator and denominator.
- Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of two decimal numbers.
- Order of size of a result.
- Knowledge and use of operating priorities in numerical examples like:
- Knowledge and use of operation properties.
- To state and use distributive law in order to develop or factorize numerical
expressions:
- Solving a problem by writing and calculating an expression.
Chapter 2:
Point symmetry (rotation of 180° about the point)
- Definition of a symmetrical point to another point.
- Construction of a symmetrical point to another point.
- Construction of usual geometrical figures by point symmetry (straight line,
segment, circle...).
- Statement and use of point symmetry properties.
- To recognize the symmetry centre of a geometrical figure and to construct
centre.
- To complete a geometrical figure in order to get a symmetry centre.
Chapter 3: Algebraic expressions
- Reduction of a multiplication; for instance: a×3 = 3a.
- Knowledge and use of operating properties in algebraic expressions.
- Knowledge and use of distributive law in order to develop or factorize
algebraic expressions.
- Use of algebraic expressions to make numerical calculus.
- Equality test between two algebraic expressions by using numbers.
- Solving equations like: x+a=b and
x-a=b.
Chapter 4:
Angles, Parallelogram
- Knowledge and use of the expressions: adjacent angles, complementary angles,
supplementary angles, vertically opposite angles, alternate and interior angles,
corresponding angles.
- Statement and use of properties of angles made by two parallel lines which
are cut by a secant.
- Prove that two lines are parallel by using equality between alternate and
interior angles or corresponding angles.
- Showing equal angles in a figure and justifying.
- Connection of symmetry point properties to parallelogram.
- Statement and use of properties of a parallelogram.
- Construction of a parallelogram telling which properties are used.
- To prove that a quadrilateral is a parallelogram.
Textbooks
 Click here to see the French
textbook excerpts on Fractions.
Click here to see the French
textbook excerpts on Pythagora's Theorem.
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