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...
Pyper, J. S. (2015). Thinking about teaching, learning, and mathematical mindsets leads me to learning skills. OAME Gazette, 54(1), 28-33. Gz54i1_OAME_Gazette_54_1_pp28-33Download
One of the earliest math Trails was by Dudley Blane and Doug Clarke in 1985 for a trail around the city of Melbourne Australia. Math Trails are an opportunity to...
A Handbook on Rich Learning Tasks, by Gary Flewelling and William Higginson, published by the MSTE Group, Queen's University. Handbook
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...
I think about elementary preservice teachers – many arrive in teacher preparation with little mathematics learning after grade 11, many with varying degrees of anxiety for mathematics and teaching mathematics,...
Using EQAO, which makes standardized content tests for students, for content tests and pedagogical tests for preservice secondary school mathematics teachers suggests to me that there are some questions that...
What if the elementary school curriculum was shifted to be about “mathematical arts” and offer more opportunities for teachers, students, and parents to engage in the learning
Referring to the evidence presented by the SUN news article by blilley@postmedia.com and promoted by @LisaThompsonMPP @fordnation about class sizes: It is important to read the whole article and not (what some...
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...