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Johnny Therriault School in Aroland First Nation hosts its first ever student-led family math night!

By Bev Caswell, Zach Pedersen, Larisa Lam On Wednesday, February 8th 2017, Johnny Therriault School in Aroland First Nation hosted its first ever student-led family math night. Principal Bill Beaucage’s vision of a “family math party” involving students and showcasing indigenous knowledges was readily taken up by community members, OISE partners, teachers, staff and

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Using student names to explore math and literacy in the classroom

Are you an early years’ educator looking for new ways to have kindergarten children demonstrate literacy and math behaviours? We have a new lesson in our library that uses children’s names to explore graphing. It’s engaging and fun. This lesson, by Dr. Eric Jackman Institute of Child Study Lab School teacher Norah L’Esperance, asks

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Bev, Carl, Jan, and Joan

Thank you to our partners in education for an incredible 2016

The Robertson Program would like to thank everyone we work alongside for a truly exciting year full of creativity, ingenuity and adventure. We feel incredibly fortunate to be invited into schools, communities and even homes – all in the name of making math and science more accessible to learners of all

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Teacher leads an algebra lesson using a spatial approach to illustrate growing patterns

By Dr. Bev Caswell This morning, the Dr. Eric Jackman Institute of Child Study Lab School (JICS) hosted a “Math Morning” that gave an opportunity for parents to see how math is taught and learned at JICS. It also gave me an opportunity to see the amazing math happening at the school!

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Table filled with student built structures

By Bev Caswell, Zach Pedersen, Larisa Lam On Wednesday, February 8th 2017, Johnny Therriault School in Aroland First Nation hosted its first ever student-led family math night. Principal Bill Beaucage’s vision of a “family math party” involving students and showcasing indigenous knowledges was readily taken up by community members, OISE partners, teachers, staff and

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Are you an early years’ educator looking for new ways to have kindergarten children demonstrate literacy and math behaviours? We have a new lesson in our library that uses children’s names to explore graphing. It’s engaging and fun. This lesson, by Dr. Eric Jackman Institute of Child Study Lab School teacher Norah L’Esperance, asks

Read More »
Bev, Carl, Jan, and Joan

The Robertson Program would like to thank everyone we work alongside for a truly exciting year full of creativity, ingenuity and adventure. We feel incredibly fortunate to be invited into schools, communities and even homes – all in the name of making math and science more accessible to learners of all

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Leslie Campbell and Bev Caswell

By Zachary Pedersen Leslie Campbell, a recent graduate of OISE’s Master of Arts in Child Study and Education at the Dr. Eric Jackman Institute of Child Study (University of Toronto), is making headlines in her first year as a teacher. Leslie is a former student of Dr. Joan Moss and

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