Fraction Ball converts a traditional basketball court, putting focus on the relationship between fractions and their equivalent decimals. “Fraction Ball can be painted pretty much anywhere or even drawn with chalk,” says University of California-Irvine Assistant Professor Dr. Andres Bustamante.
TELUS Friendly Future Foundation is helping The Robertson Program for Inquiry-based Teaching in Math and Science provide youth from underserved communities an opportunity to gain experience teaching math.
Deliberately selecting culturally diverse and relevant literature ensures all students have an opportunity see themselves reflected in class material. Plus, 7 self-reflective questions for educators to consider when selecting storybooks to support mathematical learning.
The drive for symmetry is already apparent in the play of young children, who show growing inclination and ability to create spatially regular and patterned forms with art or construction materials and will often persevere to an astonishing degree to select the precise block needed to maintain the symmetry of a construction.
Spatial activities categorized by process, such as mental rotation, perspective taking, visualization and mapping. More than 30 lessons for early years, primary and junior educators — free to use with students! Includes background info on the benefits of spatial reasoning in mathematics education.
The ability to identify and match numbers is important, but what is often missing is foundational understanding of place value. Interview-style approaches can reveal how a student thinks about ones, tens and eventually hundreds, thousands, and beyond.
4 quick, efficient, student-friendly assessments that help educators better understand the mathematical strengths and needs of students.
