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Julia Robinson Math Festival
Students participated in Julia Robinson Math Festival lead by Jonathan Tang, Numeracy Teacher Consultant. Students enjoyed collaborating to solve logic problems. They used creativity and critical thinking skills to come up with solutions. Students were engaged and felt proud during the festival. It connected nicely to one of our school numeracy objectives which is to…
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How many squares?
Students in the Grade 6/7 class spent time collaborating with each other to calculate how many squares were in the diagram that they were given. Students demonstrated a variety of computational startegies to come up with the answer. When asked about the activity, students commented on how much they enjoyed it because they had to…
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Computational Fluency Learning in Action
The pictures show some specific actions that staff are doing to support student learning in numeracy. In the first picture a student is using the decomposing strategy to solve three digit addition computations. The other picture represents an instructional strategy called Number Talk where students are invited to share everything that they know about the…
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Numeracy Professional Development Day at Bridge Elementary School
During the September 22nd Professional Day, Thomas Kidd staff participated in a numeracy workshop led by District Numeracy Consultants. During the workshop staff learned about numeracy curricular competencies, how to assess numeracy instruction and use it to inform practice. They also participated in grade group break out sessions where instructional routines were modelled for them.…