Hugh Beaton Public School Math Professional Learning Workshop

Hugh Beaton Public School Professional Learning

GECDSB School Based Learning Sessions (SBL)

Tuesday February 7th, 2017

Thanks for inviting Andrea and I to learn with you on your school based learning day! The group was energetic and excited to learn about meaningful manipulative use, spatial reasoning, the progression of multiplication and concreteness fading!

Here’s a summary of what we explored today:

The GECDSB Mathematics Strategy

$GECDSB Math Strategy$

Mathematical Proficiencies

The full GECDSB Mathematics Vision is here.

Paying Attention to Spatial Reasoning

Warm-Up: How Do You See the Dots?

We did a quick Dot-Card warm-up asking you to visualize how you saw a series of dots on the screen. We went around the table and it seemed that everyone had a different perspective.

Here’s some of the ways you might have visualized the dots:

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We then explored the progression of multiplication from arrays and area models to the standard algorithm.

For a full summary, see the post below.

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Concreteness Fading

We attempted to summarize the use of manipulatives on a continuum called “Concreteness Fading”. While the name suggests that concrete manipulatives fade away over time, it is important to remember that they fade away with one layer of abstraction and then reappear as a new layer is “piled” on.