Miss Younger's Math Musings
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.
Mathematical Vocabulary from the United Kingdom. I found the book both informative and extensive. The list of vocabulary in it was helpful and there were very few words I could think of to add. One of the things I would add is to teach students the Greek and Latin roots that give number which appear…
I strongly identified with the work of Peter Liljedahl as it immediately struck me as the type of learners, I want my students to be, motivated, curious, self-directed thinkers. It also reminded me of the work of the Critical Thinking Consortium whose ideas I was exposed to as an education student at UBC and have…
My two careers in math are in very different fields, one being something I almost went into and was very passionate about as an undergraduate students and the other is based off a hobby. Geographic Information Systems Analyst Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is a wonderful overlap of geography, math and just about anything else. In…
As adults much of our experience with practicing math facts was in “mad minute drills” timed tests that were useless at best and anxiety inducing at worst. I remember being in grade 4 the grade I currently teach and feeling like an utter failure because I only completed 30 of the 60 problems on my…
This year I have been pushing myself to use rich math tasks and problems that really get my students thinking and working together. One of my favourites is the Three Act Math Task. There are many teachers and math teacher blogs that advocate for the use of Three Act tasks, Dan Meyer and Graham Fletcher…
