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OTF Math Office Hours with Trish Maeker – July 7
OTF Math Office Hours gives beginning teachers and teacher candidates the opportunity to ask questions about math concepts and procedures and to receive support from a teacher qualified in math. Our contacts at the Ontario Teacher Candidates’ Council (OTCC) have expressed support for this program. Facilitator: Trish Maeker To access Trish’s Delta Math Practice Exercises, …
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OTF Math Office Hours with Dee Kruc – June 16th, 2021
OTF Math Office Hours gives beginning teachers and teacher candidates the opportunity to ask questions about math concepts and procedures and to receive support from a teacher qualified in math. Our contacts at the Ontario Teacher Candidates’ Council (OTCC) have expressed support for this program. Facilitator: Dee Kruc RESOURCES Here’s a helpful resource provided by …
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Episode 3: Make Math Moments Through Multiplicative Thinking
In Episode 3, we continue with our focus on Number Sense. Our time together includes a problem-based approach to the following topics: operating with whole numbers, integers, decimals, and fractions: addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and square root, expressing whole numbers using place value and expanded form, working with exponents, and evaluating numeric expressions involving order …
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Episode 2: Make Math Moments Through Additive Thinking
In Episode 2 of this 10-part series, we focus on Number Sense. Our time together includes a problem-based approach to the following topics: Operating with whole numbers, integers, decimals, and fractions: addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and square root Expressing whole numbers using place value and expanded form Working with exponents Evaluating numeric expressions involving order …
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Nix the Tricks! Rules that Break, and Rules that Expire in Grade 4-10 Mathematics
As students travel through the landscape of mathematics, certain rules tend to break on them. Certain rules expire as our need for more sophisticated number concepts and operations develops. That is why giving students “tricks” probably harms them in the long run. This webinar will explore how to build a strong conceptual foundation, so students’ …