As the kickoff to this year’s OAME conference (Ontario Association for Mathematics Education), Zack Hawes (Research Officer, OISE’s Robertson Program) and Dr. Cathy Bruce presented to OMCA (Ontario Mathematics Coordinators Association). This also marked the official unveiling (unwrapping) of Taking Shape (Moss, Bruce, Caswell, Flynn, and Hawes).
Members of OMCA were provided with copies of the book and spent the afternoon discussing spatial reasoning and excitedly trying some of the activities first hand. A favourite activity amongst the group involved a series of paper folding challenges. For example, see the Twitter caption immediately above. Try it yourself! Members left the meeting with book in hand and an eagerness to try out the activities with young children.
Zachary Hawes and @drcathybruce sharing some fascinating research on spatial reasoning pic.twitter.com/OSGCrwuyxT
— Michael Jacobs (@msbjacobs) May 4, 2016
What an awesome afternoon of learning! Thank you @drcathybruce and Zachary Hawes!!! Looking forward to unpacking your new book! @OMCAmath
— Vicki Parry (@vparry25) May 4, 2016
How can you fold your paper to get this design with only one hole punch pic.twitter.com/ZMmLh8Uwqw
— TeatherBoard (@TeatherBoard) May 4, 2016
How can you fold your paper to get this design with only one hole punch pic.twitter.com/ZMmLh8Uwqw
— TeatherBoard (@TeatherBoard) May 4, 2016
Yes!!!! Cue music pic.twitter.com/Ivo2wtCj3U
— Ruthie sloan (@Roosloan) May 5, 2016
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-Zack Hawes and The Robertson Program