January has begun with plenty of math fun and exploring.
Some of our friends have begun to use the “Rekenrek”.
This wonderful tool was designed by Adrian Treffers, a mathematics curriculum researcher at the Freudenthal Institute in Holland, to support the natural development of number in children. In class we have been using it to demonstrate quantities and some friends have used it to further develop their addition skills.
Sumblox are another fun tool that we have been using to explore number concepts in our classroom. They look like regular building blocks but they aren’t!
As you can see above, we began introducing the Sumblox by exploring quantity and later we challenged students to work on building a tower consisting of numbers 1-10.
These great blocks will be used to assist us in learning addition over the next few weeks. We will be sure to share our learning with you.
Our entire class has been given logins to a program called mPower through TVO. A few students were introduced to this program in the computer lab. As we introduce students logins will be sent via REMIND to those that are ready so that you can also use this great MATH program at home. We are able to track student progress through our teacher login even if you do it at home.
If you would like to learn more about mPower please take a look at this video:
This great program is directly linked to Ontario curriculum and we hope to have all our student’s on it by the end of the month. We will slowly introduce it a few student’s at a time during our computer lab times.
Some other centers that have been math based have been connected to counting and ordering numbers (even after working on winter words we worked on ordering the pages by using correct numbers).
Please continue to work on the below at home to further enchance learning at school:
*Number recognition
*Quantity
*Adding
*Number ordering (up and down)
*Words that express numbers and writing numbers
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