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This spring, we have some wonderful work that we will be engaged in. As we continue into our Social Studies unit, our students have begun to identify an endangered animal in each region of Canada. We will be studying the environmental impacts of industry on the animals from each region. We will also be creating…

Originally posted on Big Ideas in Education Blog: The strategies we use to teach math are coming under a lot of consideration these days. I do believe that curriculum frameworks are changing for the better within a changing society. We are moving from a purely behaviouralistic view of curriculum as drill, repetition, basic skills instruction…

Amazing article on math from @joboaler from @standford Click to access FluencyWithoutFear.pdf

Today our students worked on a Patterning Problem to: describe and extend a geometric pattern make predictions related to this pattern investigate this problem with manipulatives ask questions present findings and express the patterning rule.  We began with a whole group discussion of the problem posed in class. Minds on: We engaged in a think…

Originally posted on OSSEMOOC: Written and shared by Andrew Forgrave While I had originally thought I might take in #edCampSWO (SouthWest Ontario) in Tillbury, ON at the last minute, it turned out not to be the case. Add to the mix a similar interest in also attending a second Ontario #edCamp being held on the…

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