Miss Younger's Math Musings
I first heard the term Low Threshold – High Ceiling ( LTHC) tasks a few years ago in an afterschool workshop on getting students talking in socials and science. I didn’t pay much attention to it at the time, I was a first-year teacher and getting my feet wet with so many things it was…
Math routines have become one of my favourite ways to build number sense in my classroom. There are many math routines out there and I could not list them all in this post. Below I have outlined a few of my favourites. My Favourite No This has to be a favourite in my classroom and…
Over the last few weeks I have watched a large number of math themed Ted Talks and a few others about education I have posted my personal video play list below.
https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf The Mathematician’s Lament hit me hard as someone who loves music and art, I couldn’t imagine a world where a child’s only exposure to art or music was one where it was so proscribed as Lockhart suggests. I grew up as a competitive dancer and it continues to shape my outlook, reading Lockhart’s Lament…
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1TZvUFyHnv_QrAt5stbEtfd9EprUj4H19VtvdqvdxLFM/edit?usp=sharing In my most recent course we built a collective presentation this was a challenging exercise for me to know how to contribute to a group presentation that was built completely asynchronously. The results of this presentation surprised me in how well it came together and how little we doubled up on material. This presentation…
Family Numeracy Times In other years my school has celebrated Family Numeracy day in May where parents or other family members are invited to come to the school and play math games with their students for the first hour of the school day. This is a great way to engage families and show them how…
One of my biggest takes always from my current course is that math does not have to be confined and should not be confined to our traditional paper and pencil math. Something that I am looking forward to doing more of in the next few weeks before the end of the year is taking math…
This was my first attempt at a three act task before Spring Break. This is another lesson that is being added to my teacher binder for next year’s multiplication unit.
Growth Mindset Makes A Difference Helping our students build a growth mindset begins at home! Take time to look at ways we can celebrate mistakes as a chance to grow and how focusing on attitude, persistence, resilience, and strategies can help students grow to be confident, independent learners. Math Games Make Practice Meaningful. “what books…
This lesson plan has been a labour of love over the past seven weeks, based on the Japanese model of an overarching question or problem and utilizing a highly engaging three act task structure. This lesson was a hit with my class and the two classes that got the jolly ranchers after we shared them….
