The secondary mathematics 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 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.

(Adapted from:  Ontario Ministry of Education. The Ontario Curriculum Grades 9 and 10: Mathematics, 2005. p. 6.)