Grade 9

What your teen learns in grade 9

• Grade 9 mathGrade 9 is the first year of high-school math, and algebra takes over: equations with several steps, lines on a graph, exponent laws. Here is what it covers, where students usually get stuck, and one way to help.
• Grade 9 scienceGrade 9 science is the first high-school course: chemistry gets numbers (protons, neutrons, electrons), electricity gets formulas, and ecology looks at whole systems. Here is what the year covers, where students usually get stuck, and one way to help.
• Grade 9 EnglishGrade 9 English is the first high-school course: longer texts, the first formal literary essays, and quotations that have to be worked into the writing. Here is what the year covers, where students usually lose marks, and one way to help.