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...
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 | Feb 17, 2017 | Good Reads, Making Math Moments That Matter
Developing Mathematical Practices and Deepening Understanding, Grades 4-10 Cathy Humphreys and Ruth Parker Mathematics Professional Reading In my district, Number Talks: Helping Children Build Mental Math and Computation Strategies, Grades K-5 by Sherry Parrish has...
by kylepearce3 | Jan 21, 2017 | Making Math Moments That Matter, Progressions, Visualizing Mathematics
A Progression of Counting and Quantity Success in mathematics begins with the development of a sense of number through counting and quantity. It may seem that children learn to count in much the same way that they learn their alphabet – by simply repeating...
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...
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