Miss Younger's Math Musings
“Play isn’t a luxury. It’s a necessity.” (Mraz, Porcelli, & Tyler, 2016) I really feel that games are an important part of math class and great for practicing skills and building fact fluency. As humans we are hard wired to play and the need to incorporate play has been written about by many authors. One…
For me one of the most valuable things coding brings to math class is the idea of debugging. When code is debugged, you search for the mistakes and correct them to make your code run better, in this venue mistakes are simply part of the process and not as something wrong. We get new releases…
When reading through both documents I found ideas stood out from both. I did find that the WISE one spoke to me a bit more as I found the content more clearly defined and it proposed a balance between approaches. My own belief is that math should be joyful and exciting that play is a…
In choosing the activities for each of my three competencies I noticed that I was drawn to games and instructional routines. I love math routines after having been introduced to a few through a book study at my first school. In that book study we worked through “High-Yield Math Routines” which covers six routines that…
When I hear the term balanced numeracy my mind instantly jumps to my districts balanced literacy guide and I look for a similar resource. While the Balanced Numeracy Network provides a good overview and links to many helpful resources I am looking for more clarity on the pieces of a balanced numeracy program. Something I…
My grade group often talks about how overwhelming it can be to attempt to cover all of the material in math especially this year with students having heightened anxiety levels and gaps in their mathematical background. As a grade group we are in the process of determining which topics are most important. We have also…
I like this idea and would be happy to try it with my current team, our team has a range of experience from 3 years to 30 years in the classroom. The three of us have spent this year building a supportive and positive working relationship even giving ourselves a team name. We have been…
Speed Matters I can remember being in my grade 12 pre-calculus class and my fellow students having negative comments because I was the last person done a test. AY probably failed everyone had said, she was the last done. Two days later when we got the test back, I had done well and had solved…
I found a set of “math magic tricks” that involve different computation steps that take you to a designated end number from any starting number. When I first looked at the you’ll always get 15 as an answer equation I thought there was no way that would ever work, until I tested it, setting up…
This clip gives a few of my suggestions for connecting math with our communities.
