Thinking Mathematically

How:

Ask adults about their work. When do you use math in your work? Do you use fractions or decimals? When do you count, calculate or measure? Do you use statistics, graphs, tables or charts? Continue to build your understanding of math by exploring:

Khan Academy: Continue to learn and practice new math skills while working at your own pace. Review the pick list of graded math concepts and pick up where you left off in school.

Thinking Mathematically: Exploring, questioning, working systematically, visualizing, conjecturing, explaining, generalizing, justifying, proving... are all at the heart of mathematical thinking. These collections of activities are designed to develop your capacity to work as a mathematician.

Number This collection of resources is designed to help you to improve your understanding of topics in Number.

Algebra This collection of resources is designed to help you to improve your understanding of topics in Algebra.

Geometry and Measures This collection of resources is designed to help you to improve your understanding of topics in Geometry and Measures.

Handling Data This collection of resources is designed to help you to improve your understanding of topics in Handling Data.

Problems of the Week: Challenge yourself to figure out these problems of the week at you own grade levels. Once you have your solution, you can check your work with the solutions.

Painted Cube: Each side of a cube requires paint. You have only two colours of paint, white and red. How many different ways are there to paint the cube? Extensions: What if not two colours? What if not a cube?

People Mover: There are nine people spaced evenly in a 3x3 grid (try this in your class). The person in the top right corner is removed, leaving an empty space. How can you move the person in the bottom left corner into this empty space? People can only move horizontally or vertically into empty spaces. How many moves are required? Is this the minimum number of moves? Extensions: What if not 3x3? What if not one empty space?

Rock, Paper, Scissors is considered a fair 2-person game with three options: R, P, S. Why is it fair? Can you design a fair game with 4-options? 5-options? (David Peterson, Fraser Lake Elementary School)

How Tall is the Great Canadian Flag? A 3-Act question. Work with a friend to do some figuring!