DP AA, MYP & IGCSE Math Lesson Plans

Engineer, then educator

About James Wang

I was trained as an engineer and worked on significant transport and technology development in the UK and Germany before deciding to pursue a career in international education. For 12 years I taught Physics and Higher Level Mathematics at top international schools, including United World College, and today I teach DP and MYP Mathematics while supervising Robotics and Machine Learning co-curricular activities and clubs. My teaching is inquiry-led, interdisciplinary, and rooted in real-world applications — I help students and workshop participants break their curiosity down into detailed concepts and practical, coherent to-do lists, and see them through to implemented outcomes.

Currently: High School Mathematics Teacher & Robotics Supervisor, Overseas Family School, Singapore
IB roles: DP Mathematics Examiner (Paper 2) · Assessment Content Developer contributing to the 2027 New Subject Framework
Education: MSc Educational Assessment (Distinction), University of Oxford · Professional Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Before teaching: Graduate Engineer, Bombardier Transportation · Programme Planning Manager, Singapore Land Transport Authority

The three curricula

This site maps how core mathematics topics progress across three programmes taught side by side in international schools:

IGCSE (Grade 9–10) — Cambridge or Edexcel International GCSE. Builds procedural fluency: direct calculation, standard techniques, and applying methods to set problem types.
MYP (Grade 6–10) — the IB Middle Years Programme. Concept-based and criterion-referenced (Criteria A–D), it asks students to justify, model real contexts, and communicate reasoning, not just compute.
DP Analysis & Approaches (Grade 11–12) — the IB Diploma Programme’s university-bound mathematics course (SL/HL), assessed against explicit objectives such as abstraction, interpretation, and computation, and built on the fluency and reasoning the first two programmes established.

Each lesson plan below shows the same underlying topic taught at all three stages, with an explicit note on how each level builds on the one before it.

Lesson Plans — DP AA / MYP / IGCSE Mathematics

Full 60-minute lesson plans across five core topics, each showing the vertical articulation between the DP Analysis & Approaches (SL/HL), MYP Grade 10, and IGCSE Grade 10 programmes.

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