Miss Younger's Math Musings
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….
I have summed up what have been my most important learnings over the past seven weeks into a power point presentation that could be presented to my colleagues. For me the last seven weeks have been transformative as a teacher, pushing me out of my box and showing me things that I didn’t know were…
Read alouds are a wonderful way to infuse language into our math programs. There are many great picture books that engage students creativity and curiosity in the math classroom. I often use my math read alouds to introduce or reinforce a concept. Making the connection between our language instruction and our math instruction helps students…
Student math toolboxes Each student has a toolbox in their desk to use any time 20 2-sided red and yellow counters 20 bingo chips 100 paper counters (each student has a different shape) Paper base ten blocks Units Rods Flats Cubes 6-sided dice 10-sided dice Ten frames Place value chart to 1000’s place Number word…
We all know that attitude is everything in life. Our mindset and outlook influence our path forward and success, there is a large body of research on mindset and math attitudes from influential educators including Jo Bolar ( https://www.youcubed.org/). Early in the school year I try to determine where my student’s attitudes towards math lie,…
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/time-to-lead/our-time-to-lead-income-inequality/article15316231/?section=0&autoplay=true https://www.thestar.com/opinion/letters_to_the_editors/2015/04/18/leveling-the-fundraising-playing-field.html Reading these articles, I immediately thought of my experience in the two vastly different schools I have taught in. My first classroom was in an inner-city neighbourhood with a high poverty rate and many refugee families. For many of my families they wanted their children to do well and to be successful but…
I began my first teacher blog in 2014 as a student teacher with my domain name. It chronicled my practicum year and my first months in the classroom. As I’m posting to this blog I am reflecting on how much I have learned since I last posted to that blog in 2017. Reading my old…
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…
