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  • Home
  • Musings
  • Resources
    • Math Blogs to visit
    • Teacher Resource Books
    • Inspirational Videos
    • Growth Mindset
  • Instructional Ideas
    • Assessment
    • Number Sense Routines >
      • Choral Counting
      • Clothesline Numberlines
      • Estimation Clipboard
      • Estimation 180
      • Number Talks
      • Tell Me Everything
      • Today's Number
      • True/False Routine
      • Same or Different
      • Which One Doesn't Belong (WODB)
      • Would You Rather
    • Counting Collections
    • Fractions
    • Patterning
    • Number Concepts
    • Daily Math Investigations (Numeracy Centres)
    • Multiplication
    • Three Act Tasks
    • Using Children's Literature
  • Presentations/Publications

Ideas and beliefs about Mathematics

I believe a strong Mathematics curriculum:
  • is focussed on deep conceptual understanding;
  • allows for students to construct knowledge together; collaboration is key!
  • allows children to show what they know in multiple ways (e.g., CRA: concretely, pictorially/representational, abstractly/ symbolically);
  • is engaging; students are actively involved in doing Mathematics!
  • fosters connections between Mathematical concepts and also with the real world; students need to see Mathematics as meaningful;
  • focusses on the process, not simply the product;
  • builds Mathematical habits of mind (e.g., problem solving, perseverance, curiosity, critical and creative thinking, questioning, conjecturing, reasoning, visualizing, communicating thinking)
  • incorporates technology when it benefits learnings; creative iPad apps can be valuable in documenting and making students thinking visible. 

I expand on these ideas a little more here.

Responding to the Revised Curriculum 

This is a lesson planning template that I created to assist the Teacher Candidates I was working with at UBC. Many of the questions either came from or were inspired from Delta School District's new planning template.  
lesson_template.docx
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Below are a few  Grades 3 -5 Illustrative example I created to align with the revised curriculum. 
iceberg_example.pdf
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hot_lunch_day_example.pdf
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tiling_example.pdf
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Below are a few Primary Illustrative example I created to align with the revised curriculum. 
animals_on_board_.pdf
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math_examples.pdf
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Purposeful use of Math language

This website has PDF's of Word Walls for Mathematics for grades K - 8.
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