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 | Nov 13, 2017 | Making Math Moments That Matter, Sparking Curiosity
Recently, Jon Orr and I received some descriptive feedback from James Francis from Knowledgehook after watching us co-present a workshop titled “Making Math Moments That Matter” at the GECDSB Math Symposium. After sharing some of the pieces he really enjoyed, he also...
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 | Aug 13, 2017 | Making Math Moments That Matter, Professional Development, Technology
While in Austin, Texas for iPadpalooza back in 2014, Tim Yenca (@mryenca) was kind enough to give me a lift to dinner with a group of presenters. After noticing a parking lot with a sign advertising $5 parking, we found ourselves a spot and made our way to pay the...
by kylepearce3 | Jun 1, 2017 | Making Math Moments That Matter, Redefining Mathematics Education, Sparking Curiosity
Celebrate Canada’s 150th Birthday With a Month of Math With the recent raising of The Great Canadian Flag at the foot of Ouellette Avenue on Windsor’s waterfront, the excitement surrounding Canada’s 150th Birthday is well underway. Through the work of my Math...
by kylepearce3 | May 13, 2017 | Making Math Moments That Matter, Redefining Mathematics Education
How Little I Knew About Counting, Quantity and The Concreteness Fading Model St. Lawrence College – Kingston, Ontario Earlier today I had an opportunity to speak for 5 minutes during the OAME 2017 Conference during a session where each presenter has exactly 20...
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