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Friday March 31st, 2017 – PD Day

Great learning with the Davis staff today. Please find some resources below:

The GECDSB Mathematics Strategy

GECDSB Math Strategy


Mathematical Proficiencies

The full GECDSB Mathematics Vision is here.

GECDSB Mathematical Proficiencies


Paying Attention to Spatial Reasoning

Paying Attention to Spatial Reasoning Document


3 Act Math Task: Donut Delight

The main math task explored was Donut Delight where we played with multiplication to predict how many donuts there were in the “double hundred dozen” box and then used repeated subtraction to lead to a flexible division algorithm for division when we tried to find how many layers there were. To see all kinds of different representations and access all of the resources, head to this post here:

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Japanese Multiplication

In some of the groups, one of the multiplication strategies we explored was Japanese multiplication. You can view the post below:

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Here’s a video that gives a detailed explanation of Japanese multiplication.


Some other links I promised to share are included below:

Looking forward to working with you all again soon!