by kylepearce3 | Dec 26, 2017 | Fuelling Sense Making, Making Math Moments That Matter, Sparking Curiosity
Instead of Teaching Lessons to Do Tasks Over the past 5 years, I’ve been exploring the use of Dan Meyer’s 3 Act Math Task approach in my math classroom and share many of my own tasks when facilitating workshops. After participants experience these tasks in the role of...
by kylepearce3 | Sep 19, 2017 | Fuelling Sense Making, Making Math Moments That Matter, Progressions, Visualizing Mathematics
Division From Fair Sharing to Long Division and Beyond Over the past school year, I have had an opportunity to work with a great number of K to 8 teachers in my district with a focus on number sense and numeration. As a secondary math teacher turned K-12 math...
by kylepearce3 | Mar 4, 2017 | Featured Post, Fuelling Sense Making, Making Math Moments That Matter, Visualizing Mathematics
Japanese Multiplication? Chinese Multiplication? Line Multiplication? Whatever it’s called, it’s only a trick if you simply memorize without meaning Have you ever wondered why Japanese multiplication works? I’ve heard some call it Chinese multiplication,...
by kylepearce3 | Dec 27, 2016 | Fuelling Sense Making, Making Math Moments That Matter, Progressions, Visualizing Mathematics
Exploring Fraction Constructs and Proportional Reasoning Fractions are a beast of a concept that causes struggles for many adults and students alike. While we all come to school with some intuition to help us with thinking fractionally and proportionally, the...
by kylepearce3 | Dec 11, 2016 | Fuelling Sense Making, Making Math Moments That Matter, Progressions, Visualizing Mathematics
Arrays and Area Models to The Standard Algorithm Did you know that the words “array” and “area model” appear in the Grade 1-8 Math Curriculum a combined 22 times? Not only do arrays and area models help to support the development of...
by kylepearce3 | Nov 17, 2016 | Fuelling Sense Making, Making Math Moments That Matter, Progressions, Visualizing Mathematics
The Foundation and Development of Multiplicative Thinking Proportional Reasoning is a big idea that is connected in some way to all mathematical strands and stretches across many grades in the Ontario mathematics curriculum. While many focus on the importance of...
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