Pyper, J. S., Oesterle, S. (2020). Interdisciplinarity with mathematics: Middle school and beyond. Conference proceedings book chapter for the Canadian Mathematics Educators Study Group (CMESG) conference, May 31 - June...
In this Working Group (WG), we explored the opportunities and challenges of teaching and learning mathematics in an interdisciplinary (I-D) context. To follow Staats (2014) this means “drawing a context...
A quick, off the top of my head string of thoughts about teaching and learning... Teachers are planning the start to their classes. I am too, for my classes. I...
Pyper, J. S. (2013). E-Kwatee-Ons -- From mind games to algebra part 2. OAME Gazette, 52(2), 29-32. Ekwateeons_twoDownload
Pyper, J. S. (2013). E-Kwatee-Ons -- From mind games to algebra. OAME Gazette, 52(1), 29-33. Ekwateeons_oneDownload
This activity was designed to give grade 9 students another look at the Pythagorean Theorem -- something that would be a little tactile, and a little collaborative with a friend....
I am continually surprised by my students, they are so unique and individual, they find ways to surprise me about when and how they learn – often when I least...
PBL 4 – day 1, Everyone has some mathematics that excited them, that made them think, wow! That is cool! And that mathematics might have been the inspiration for continuing...
PBL 2 – day 4, what was learned…. Technology for teaching & technology for learning secondary school mathematics. The five PBL teams focused either on grades 9 and 10, or...
‘Flipped’ classrooms, i.e., when teachers create engaging learning activities and teaching experiences for students to watch, work with, learn from, at home,… and then in-class time is for collaborative or...
