A group of Cycle 3 teachers from the Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board, in partnership with the Direction Générale de la Formation des Jeunes (MEQ), have devised a set of preparatory questions to assist teachers in the Anglophone sector in appropriating the May-June 2005 MEQ Mathematics Cycle 3 Prototype exam. The aim of these preparatory questions is to allow teachers to experiment with situational problems and application questions that will be similar in type and format to those found in the MEQ’s 2005 prototype examination.

The preparatory questions consist of two (2) situational problems, ten (10) situations involving applications and two (2) situations involving Mathematical communication. They take into account the relative importance given to the themes covered in the mathematics program and focus on the main concepts and processes studied in what may be considered Cycle 3 Elementary.

The preparatory questions consist of two separate parts, each involving a series of assessment situations. The first part of the examination consists of a situational problem, 5 application questions and 1 communication question under the general heading of “ON TOUR ACROSS CANADA”. The second part of the examination also consists of a situational problem, 5 application questions and 1 communication question under the general heading of “CHALLENGE ISLAND”.

Below you will find 3 folders of documents related to these preparatory questions. Each folder contains various files. Keep in mind that these are large documents and will take considerable time to download.

Unless you have Windows XP on your computer, you will need a program such as WinZip to "unzip" the files and Acrobat Reader to read the documents.