Math
Measuring With A Pencil
Wow! You have really knocked this lesson out of the park–a true home run! I loved to see all your carefully considered choices. Such a variety of items too! Check out the slide show of your work below! Way to go Mathematicians! [ngg src=”galleries” ids=”8″ display=”basic_slideshow”] It’s not too late for me to add your … Continue reading
Play Dough Learning
Looking for something fun to do across the curriculum? Play dough is a great choice! Here is my never fail recipe: Math (Measurement) & Science (Properties of Matter) coming up if you make it together… Combine dry (solids) ingredients in a medium pot: 1 Cup flour 1/2 Cup salt 2 tsp. cream of tartar … Continue reading
Math Fun
Hello Mathematicians, Just thought I would give you a fun game you can play at home to practice your addition skills. All you need is a die (two dice is better) and some counters…Lego works great! Have fun! Connect 4 If you like this one…check out the “Doubles Aren’t Trouble” post in the math … Continue reading
Dracula or Frankenstein? A Ghost or a Witch?
We are hard at work learning about numbers in Division 9! One math lesson each week is devoted to a math journal activity–this week we played a dice game (dice are one of the best math materials ever!). We love dice games! For this game you need: 2 six sided dice something to use as counters … Continue reading
Patterns With Nature
BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! Our Big Idea: We use patterns to represent identified regularities and to form generalizations: Repeating elements can be identified. We have been working hard learning about patterns in math and decided to use our knowledge to create some patterns outside in nature. We had the choice to: work alone work with … Continue reading
Number Fun
In grade one we are learning about number words. In this activity, we worked with a partner to: Sort the numerals and number words Place them in numerical order Represent each numeral/word with the correct number of manipulatives In Kindergarten we are building our number sense as well. We are working on quickly recognizing … Continue reading
Pattern Worms
We have finished our unit on Patterns! So…we celebrated by making patterned worms! We used pipe cleaners and pony beads…with awesome googly eyes! As you can see, we made a lot of great different patterns. ‘AB’ was very popular with a lot of the Kindergarten students–but some tried even more difficult patterns like: ‘AABB’ and ‘ABCC’. The … Continue reading
Musical Dancing Math
This past month we’ve been very busy learning about patterns in Math. We’ve been reading stories with ‘ascending’ patterns like the ones below… We’ve been practising finding the “core” of patterns (that’s the part that repeats) that we make, our classmates make, and our teacher makes. We’ve also been learning about ways … Continue reading
Math with Nature…
In our first math unit this year, we are learning about patterns. So far we have been: using a variety of manipulatives in the classroom to create patterns recreating patterns using our bodies (action patterns, chicken dance) creating patterns using crayons to colour cutting and gluing pictures to make patterns translating patterns at calendar time … Continue reading
“Doubles Aren’t Trouble!”
Our current math unit is addition and subtraction to 12. The grade ones have been learning a number of ‘mental math’ strategies to help solve math problems. counting on (or up) doubles counting back We have been using games to practice our strategies… Double Trouble Doubles Snakes & Ladders Doubles +1 Connect 4 The Kindergarten … Continue reading