{"id":3881,"date":"2018-10-05T11:58:36","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T18:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/?p=3881"},"modified":"2018-10-05T15:08:14","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T22:08:14","slug":"independent-math-tasks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/2018\/10\/05\/independent-math-tasks\/","title":{"rendered":"Independent Math Tasks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/files\/2018\/10\/images.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-3883 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/files\/2018\/10\/images-300x168.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"291\" height=\"163\"><\/a>Hello Everyone!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>As we investigate the concept of STRUCTURE in numbers, I have provided a variety of independent and collaborative tasks to explore our math content and curricular competencies. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The tasks involve playing games and analyzing them, making visual representations of math concepts, creating a math rap, answering math questions online and in a book, and more.<\/p>\n<p>Students have a lot of choice, and they can complete tasks in any order. Depending on how they feel, they can work with a partner at a large table, or choose to sit alone for a bit at a private desk. I hope it will provide everyone with the appropriate level of engagement they need to explore our math curriculum with depth and complexity. If anyone needs help with the questions, I am here to guide and to teach students one-on-one.<\/p>\n<p>The task list is kept in the red binder. Red binders can be taken home as long as they come back to class each day. I will give time in class each day and all games and tools are available in class. Websites to explain the games, as well as more complex topics, are available under &#8220;Math&#8221; in the <a href=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/deterraa\/articles-of-interest\/\">Articles of Interest.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The tasks allow us to investigate math content and curricular competencies across subject areas. As they work together or alone, students will be able to:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Practice and discuss elements of good learning and work habits<\/li>\n<li>Use critical-thinking skills to obtain information and mathematical understandings<\/li>\n<li>Exchange ideas and build shared understandings about the math content.<\/li>\n<li>Integrate language arts and math, using language in creative ways to express math understandings.<\/li>\n<li>Answer critical-thinking questions, ask questions of their own, corroborate inferences, and draw conclusions using evidence.<\/li>\n<li>Collect simple data to provide evidence about their thinking<\/li>\n<li>Use graphs and venn diagrams to make comparisons and organize the data.<\/li>\n<li>Develop mental math strategies and abilities to make sense of quantities (Magic Number activities, Sumoku game, Quirkle).<\/li>\n<li>Visualize to explore mathematical concepts (Quirkle, Blokus, Venn Diagrams)<\/li>\n<li>Use technology to explore mathematics (iPad videos, Math is Fun website, Domain of Science YouTube Channel, and more.)<\/li>\n<li>Develop, demonstrate, and apply math understandings through play, inquiry, and problem solving.<\/li>\n<li>Communicate math understandings in many ways.<\/li>\n<li>Work with addition and subtraction, multiplication and division, and multiples and factors according to their abilities and grade level.<\/li>\n<li>Explore patterns found in numbers and how they can be represented both visually and numerically.<\/li>\n<li>Investigate number concepts such as types of numbers (irrational, rational, integers, etc.), number lines, prime and composite numbers, and more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Enjoy our math tasks!<\/p>\n<p>Ms. D<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Everyone! &nbsp; As we investigate the concept of STRUCTURE in numbers, I have provided a variety of independent and collaborative tasks to explore our math content and curricular competencies. The tasks involve playing games and analyzing them, making visual representations of math concepts, creating a math rap, answering math questions online and in a book, and more. 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