GECDSB Professional Learning Sessions
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Friday January 27th, 2017
Central Public School
Great learning with you all again today. Please find some resources below:
Slide Deck
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Learn More About the Progression of Fractions:
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Other Resources Related to this Session:
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Looking forward to working with you again in the next couple weeks!
Friday April 21st, 2017 – Intermediate PLC
Central Public School
The big topics coming up for the Central Public School Intermediate group involved measurement including area, surface area and volume.
Here are some tasks that we explored:
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We then discussed how one might go about doing something “sticky-like” for surface area in their classroom. We came up with the idea of having students cover something (cereal box, their desk, etc.) with square pieces of paper, say 4 cm by 4 cm. Then, give them a piece of 8 cm by 8 cm paper and have them discuss with their partners how many they’d need to cover the same object. Is there a relationship?
If I double the dimensions of my square piece of paper, does that double the area?
We could do more explorations with tripling the area, etc.
We didn’t get to Prisms Vs. Pyramids, but thought I’d add this here for Tammy as she was absent and may want to explore a bit more deeply into volume with her grade 8 students:
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