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Dr. Julie Comay shares how playing cards can be used to explore mathematical concepts with children. She also recommends a series of child-friendly card games.
Problems that arise in the real-world allow for meaningful classroom discussions about social issues. Currently in Nova Scotia, there is an ongoing debate between Mi’kmaw and non-Indigenous fishers about the rules around when lobsters can be harvested.
What is a math disability? Problems of identification and definition.
The world beyond the classroom offers a wealth of interesting, relevant materials and spaces with opportunities for counting, sorting, patterning, reasoning, calculating, measuring, surveying, constructing, visualizing, problem-solving, modelling.
Over the past three cataclysmic months, one extraordinary phenomenon (among many) has been the overnight upending of traditional schooling.
Seen through a mathematical lens, an aptly chosen text has the potential to trigger and support mathematical investigations into the workings of the physical world and our interactions within it.