Making Math More Meaningful in Grade 6

Resources Used

From Stanford Online’s “How to Learn Math for Teachers and Parents: Number Talks”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXNG6GKFhQM

Numeracy Nets: Quick Assessment Tasks

Provides useful diagnostic tasks to identify students’ strengths and needs. Tasks are aligned to the Ontario curriculum.

http://www.pearsoncanadaschool.com/index.cfm?locator=PS1zOw&PMDBSOLUTIONID=25862&PMDBSITEID=2621&PMDBCATEGORYID=25873&PMDBSUBSOLUTIONID=&PMDBSUBJECTAREAID=&PMDBSUBCATEGORYID=26203&PMDbProgramID=54446

Number Talks

A step-by-step resource on how to facilitate classroom conversations that build numerical reasoning, and strengthen accuracy, efficiency and flexibility with these mental math and computation strategies.

Learning Trajectories for Primary Grades for Mathematics, Developmental Levels

https://www.mheonline.com/assets/pdf/program/building_blocks_learning_trajectories.pdf