Friday, May 27, 2016

Math in Motion!

We have begun our residency with Decidedly Jazz Danceworks in the program called Math in Motion. Students are combining music, sounds, movements with math in the world around them. Here are some pictures of our students engaged in the program.
How many points are touching the ground?

What move should we do for the number 10? What comes before 10? What comes after?

Big jump for number 10!

 Can you make a square?
 is this a square?
What about this one?

 What shape is this student trying to make with his body?
What shape do you see here?
Copy your reflection! (its like a mirror!)


Thank you to School Council for funding this amazing residency at Vista Heights!

Wednesday, May 25, 2016

In math the students were told "The answer is 8, what can the math sentence be?"
Here are some of the ideas they came up with.


Friday, May 20, 2016

Open ended Math problems


 Share your ideas!


Another problem!



What are some solutions you can come up with?


Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Grade 5

Grade 5 students are learning about the above outcome from the Program of Studies. Grade 5 students in Mrs. Calvert's class, worked with a partner to think of the definition, facts/characteristics, examples and non-examples of the above mathematical vocabulary.

They used the Frayer model to help organize their thoughts.

Each pair of students were given one of the words, and filled in their Frayer Model. Here is their work!

Upon giving students a chance to fill in their organizer, all grade 5 students reviewed the work, shared their understandings to add to the model, and looked for real life examples of the above vocabulary words. (click on the picture to enlarge)






Can you organize the following pictures based on the above student Frayer Models

Which is an example of: (click on the backpack for the definition from learnalberta.ca)
parallel 
intersecting 
perpendicular 
vertical 
horizontal. 







Monday, March 14, 2016

Telus Spark

Telus Spark & Math
Addition Definition
Subtraction Definition


 What shapes do you see?
 What shapes are they using? What are they building?

 Can you sort the tires?
 Stirling and Lucas are sorting

 What 3D shapes is Abootie using?
 We have finished sorting! Explain how they sorted.
 It looks like Preston is sorting too...How did he sort?