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Fort McMurray

Just a note to let you all know that the students have all been reunited with their families. I can't thank you all enough for all your support. Everyone was amazing. We will keep in touch as we rebuild our community in Fort McMurray and I look forwa
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Can't Wait

 2103543?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024   I fully intended to post regular blog posts but have fallen behind.  It is easy to drop things like this from my to-do list.  However, Jim Strachan reminded me how important it is to document and share the learning that is going in schools.  By n

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Pi Day - A Success at Westwood

As part of making Math more equitable to students and more friendly to students we had different events scheduled for Pi day.  You will find included a copy with pictures of all we chose to do this year and instructions for one of the activities.

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Easter Break Assignment

Over the Easter Break many of the students at our school travel and see many interesting things.  I try not to give any assignments over the break but am often asked for something the students can work on over the break.  I have attached the instruct

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Math Council at TVA

     

2103551?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024There has been a lot of math activity going on at TVA in the last month.  In my own classroom I had one of those teaching moments where you look at your students and say to yourself, "2103578?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024wow, they really got it".  Not only have my students "gotten

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Otterson Math Fair!

Hey all!

Below, I've attached a copy of an email I sent to our staff explaining exactly what our math fair will entail. I figure it will give you a pretty good idea of the direction we're heading. I'm hearing some real excitement about the math fair

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Ontario visit in May

Hello.

We are ready and eager to visit Ontario in May. Really looking forward to it. To have the student voice coming out loud and clear it would be very fun and interesting for them  just to participate in ordinary classes and see how it is. Maybe th

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Pereyma "mows the lawn" with Kyle's task

Hello NORCAN friends!

Team Pereyma is excited about our next NORCAN learning session that is scheduled to take place here at Pereyma this Friday, February 19.  Both our Grade 7 and Grade 9 Math students have been learning about perimeter and area, so

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Pereyma's Timbit Task Artefact of Learning

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A while ago, we posted our Timbit Measure task.  This was our first attempt at creating a STEAM task for our transitional Math students.  After much discussion here at Pereyma, we eventually decided to make this task a collaboration be

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Update from Ranvik

Hi Everyone!

First of all; my written english is far from perfect, but i think it's important for us norwegians to not make things more difficult than necessary and i know you all understand most of what i'm trying to say anyway. So i will not spend t

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Update from Otterson

Hey everyone!

Hope all is going well for all of our fellow NORCAN colleagues! Here at Otterson, we've been hard at work on many different fronts over the last couple of months and I just wanted to give you a small update on some of the things we've g

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This week in Grade 7&8 @ TVA

      My plan was to write a bi-monthly blog entry but somehow I missed the last couple of weeks.  Intentions were good but something, not sure what (report cards, marking, prepping, phone calls, Paul constantly checking up on me, responding to Jim's

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My Norway Reflections

PD - Full Group Meeting - Thoughts from the Day 1 Meeting in Oslo (Monday)

  • There are a wide array of projects being undertaken by the project schools. This is a very diverse project. I don’t envy the researcher who has to tie it all together.I’m very
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Formative Assessment

On Day 1 in Oslo, I mentioned my passion for formative assessment. Then, I went on school visits and saw that there's even formative assessment in math classes in Norway! Check out the photos below of some formative assessment in action in a class I

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