Beyond Pictures, Numbers and Words: A Focus on Multiplication and Division
Teachers and students in one classroom learn how representations and models can help students to build conceptual understandings about multiplication and division.
Learning for the Classroom
Taking the Learning Home
Bruce Rodrigues: EQAO, Assessment, and Mathematics
Bruce Rodrigues, CEO of EQAO, presents primary, junior and grade 9 mathematics assessment data in the context of current provincial conversations, positioning EQAO as only one piece in the assessment picture of Ontario.
Video Clips
Coaching for Student Success in Mathematics
What does it mean to coach for student success in mathematics? Coaching for student success isn’t just about having a numeracy coach. It is about including everyone in contributing to the improvement of numeracy instruction and student learning and achievement in mathematics.
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Creating the Conditions for Learning Mathematics
This resource allows viewers to observe students as they are learning. They also observe educators as they watch and examine the classroom footage and the student work from the lesson. Throughout this video, viewers have the opportunity to consider the mathematics that students learn within the Ontario Curriculum and how contexts set the stage for learning.
Overview
Classroom Learning
Analyses
MathTalk, Conferencing and Professional Learning
Knowledgeable Others
Empowering Students in Math
Students in this Grade 2/3 classroom see math happening everywhere. They have embraced problem solving…
Empowering Students in Math
Engaging Students in Mathematics
This resource explores a mathematics lesson taught within a three-part lesson framework. Throughout, the teacher…
Overview
Getting Started
Working On It
Consolidation
Teacher Debrief
English Language Learners and Mathematics: Patterning and Algebra
Explore how the development of English language proficiency and the achievement of the Mathematics curriculum…
Designing an Inclusive Learning Environment for English Language Learners
A Space Where Everyone Can Learn: Patterning and Algebra in the Classroom
Building a Whole School Approach
Explicit Teaching in Problem-based Mathematics
Explicit Teaching in Problem-based Mathematics offers a re-imagining of what it means to engage in “direct” instruction. Rather than a separate pedagogical approach, explicit instruction is an integral part of problem-based learning and instruction. Animation and video are used to feature educator moves that support students to “notice things they would not otherwise see.” Think uncovering. Think making visible.
Video Clips
High-Yield Strategies for Improving Mathematics Instruction and Student Learning – VIDEO
The purpose of this webcast is to stimulate professional learning about organizing for and improving…
High-Yield Strategies
High-Yield Strategies to Improve Student Learning
Today’s classrooms are filled with learners whose strengths are as diverse as their needs. In order to teach all students effectively to build on strengths while zeroing in on areas that need more attention teachers must have an extensive repertoire of strategies.
Introduction
Part 1: Ongoing Assessment and Feedback (Literacy)
Part 2: Teacher Moderation (Literacy)
Part 3: The Gradual Release of Responsibility Model (Literacy)
Part 4: Teaching Non-Fiction Writing (Literacy)
Part 5: Using Texts of All Types (Literacy)
Part 6: Critical Literacy (Literacy)
Part 1: Ongoing Assessment and Feedback (Numeracy)
Part 2: Teacher Moderation (Numeracy)
Part 3: Three-part Problem-Solving Lesson (Numeracy)
Part 4: Use of Learning Materials Appropriate to the Mathematics (Numeracy)
Part 5: Developing a Mathematics Learning Community (Numeracy)
Conclusion
Honouring Student Voice in Mathematics
This resource profiles a teacher and her Grade 5/6 as they work through a three-part mathematics lesson. The students reflect on how they have supported each other as a community of learners in developing their understanding of mathematics.
Plan for the Math by Doing the Math
Fostering a Community of Learners
Student Voice and the Three-Part Lesson
Kindergarten Matters
Kindergarten Matters: Re-imagining Literacy and Mathematics Throughout the Day
Introduction
Learning is ... a shift in thinking and action
Learning is ... co-constructed inquiry
Learning is ... expressing and communicating theories that give meaning to events and objects in the world
Learning is ... a process of constructing, testing and re-constructing theories
Learning is ... building relationships between contexts and perspectives
Kindergarten Matters: Intentional Play-based Learning
Kindergarten Matters: Planned, Purposeful, and Playful Talk
Leaders in Mathematical Thinking
Current mathematical thinkers, including Marian Small, Cathy Bruce and Ruth Beatty, share their ideas during…
Jill Gough
Connie Quadrini
Chris Suurtamm
Cathy Bruce
Alex Lawson
Marian Small
Lisa Lunney Borden
Ruth Beatty
Nathalie Sinclair
Steven Strogatz
Sarah Greenwald
Daniel Ansari
Leadership in Mathematics
All those who work in education understand that effective instruction in mathematics is essential because…
Joyce Public School: Introduction
Joyce Public School: Building Relationships and Developing People
Joyce Public School: Developing the Organization
Joyce Public School: Improving the Instructional Program
Joyce Public School: Securing Accountability
Joyce Public School: Mathematics in the Classroom
St. Marguerite D’Youville: Introduction
St. Marguerite D'Youville: Setting Direction
St. Marguerite D'Youville: Improving Instruction
St. Marguerite D'Youville: Developing the Organization
St. Marguerite D'Youville: Building Relationships
St. Marguerite D'Youville: Securing Accountability
St. Marguerite D’Youville: Conclusion
St. Thomas Aquinas Secondary School - Introduction
St. Thomas Aquinas: Setting Directions
St. Thomas Aquinas: Building Relationships
St. Thomas Aquinas: Developing the Organization
St. Thomas Aquinas: Improving Instruction
St. Thomas Aquinas: Securing Accountability
Conclusion
Learning Mathematics Within Contexts – VIDEO
What is the purpose of understanding students’ mathematical knowledge at the start of a lesson? What is the significance of contexts for student learning of mathematics? Why is it important for teachers to solve mathematical problems that they will use during their classroom lessons?
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Linking Today’s Understanding to Tomorrow’s Learning: Proportional Reasoning
In the resource Linking Today’s Understanding to Tomorrow’s Learning: Proportional Learning you will see teachers who think deeply about ways to help students develop proportional reasoning.
They determine how to make ideas explicit for students, to help them “notice things that would not otherwise be seen. The teachers use a wide variety of teaching strategies to have students learn deeply ratio tables.
Each day, these educators increase their understanding of how and what their students learn. at the same time, they develop their own capacity as learners and teachers.
Intro
Phase 1: Starting Points in the Learning
Phase 2: Building on the Learning
Phase 3: Extending the Learning
Talking about What Works
What Mathematics Researchers Are Learning
Loving the Math, Living the Math
Explores the math program which contributes to the development of confident mathematicians in Matthew Oldridge’s…
Part 1 - Loving the Math, Living the Math
Part 2 - Loving the Math, Living the Math
Part 3 - Loving the Math, Living the Math
Math Conversations that Count: Grades 1 to 12
This resource features the importance of math conversations in classrooms grades 1 to 12, and…
Introduction
Conversations in Primary
Conversations in Junior
Conversations in Junior/Intermediate
Conversations in Secondary
Conversations that Connect Across the Grades
Math in Action
Math in Action takes in-depth look at the teaching and learning at a Toronto school, where educators work to engage students in mathematics through real-world situations and explorations. Learn how staff identify and address the needs of their students by creating partnerships between school, home and the community.
Math in Action
Part 1 – Loving the Math, Living the Math
Explores the math program which contributes to the development of confident mathematicians in Matthew Oldridge’s…
Introduction
Loving the Math: Conditions for Creating a Math Learning Culture
Living the Math: Features of Matthew's Mathematics Program
Part 2 – Loving the Math, Living the Math
Explores the math program which contributes to the development of confident mathematicians in Matthew Oldridge’s…
Understanding the Mathematics
The Role of Technology
Part 3 – Loving the Math, Living the Math
Explores the math program which contributes to the development of confident mathematicians in Matthew Oldridge’s…
Student clips
Passion for Teaching and Learning Mathematics
Passion for Teaching and Learning Mathematics offers an inside look into primary, junior and intermediate classrooms during math learning activities. Teachers, students and administrators talk about and demonstrate how learners can use a variety of student-developed strategies to discover math concepts, constants and rules. It will be relevant to educators interested in eliminating math anxiety by connecting math understanding to real-life learning experiences.
Grade 1: The Brownie Dilemma
Grade 4/5: The Water Problem
Grade 6: The Dice Challenge
Grade 7: The Logo Problem
The Milk Bag Experience
The Smart Board
Leadership: Rita Angellotti
Principal and Leads
Principal of Mackenzie Glen
Planning for Mathematical Understanding: Fractions Across the Junior Grades
This resource documents the journey of junior teachers in Wellington Catholic District School Board who plan a unit on fractions as a division, implement it, and reflect on it at various points during its progression.
Collaborative Unit Planning
The Big Ideas of Fractions
Debrief and Reflections
Promising Practices in Mathematics Learning and Teaching
Today, declining mathematics scores is a new challenge that will not wait. In elementary schools…
Promising Practices in Mathematics Learning and Teaching
Spatial Reasoning in Number Sense and Numeration
Primary and intermediate educators and their students investigate spatial reasoning and spatial visualization and highlight the power of using visual, concrete and digital representations to support math learning in the number sense and numeration strand.
Introduction
'Spatializing'
Supporting Students with Special Needs
Visualizing
Proportional Reasoning
Scaling Up or Down
Composing and Decomposing
Non-Verbal Reasoning
Manipulating Objects
Comparing Objects
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Related Junior Resources - Scaling Up or Down
Related Junior Resources - Composing and Decomposing
Related Junior Resources - Non-Verbal Reasoning
Related Junior Resources - Manipulating Objects
Related Junior Resources - Comparing Objects
Teaching Mathematics Through a Social Justice Lens
This resource shares one school’s approach to improving student learning in mathematics – an approach…
Introduction
What is Social Justice Math?
Building a Collaborative Culture of Learning
Social Justice Math Lesson
Insights into Intense Learning
Three Part Lesson in Mathematics: Co-planning, Co-teaching and Supporting Student Learning
A grade 6 three-part lesson on fractions – co-planned, co-taught and observed by a team…
A Problem-Solving Approach
Co-planning
Supporting Student Learning
Co-teaching
Shared Perspectives
Through the Eye of the Learner: From Student Work to Teacher Practice
Witness educators from a primary and a middle school who formed a learning team to…
Overview
Setting the Context
Classroom Visit #1
Debrief of Classroom Visit #1
Classroom Visit #2
Debrief of Classroom Visit #2
Learning Team Debrief
Principal Team Debrief
Understanding Geometric Figures through Drawing and Paper Folding
This webcast explores the study of 2-D geometry in the junior mathematics classroom. It offers…
Introduction
Research
In Depth
Analyzing Relationships
Investigating Triangles and Measuring Angles
Students in Action
Consolidating and Implementing
We Are All Mathematicians
A montage showcasing the mathematics learning happening across Ontario at all levels.
We Are All Mathematicians
Young Mathematicians
An eLearning Experience Especially Designed for Primary Educators
This resource has been created for teachers, ECEs, administrators and support staff in K to 3 classrooms who want to explore the learning and teaching of mathematics in the early years. Through provocations (i.e., guiding questions, quotes and video clips), Young Mathematicians provides an opportunity for individual and collaborative inquiry and reflection on classroom practice.
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