Math

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__** What's On in Math This Week - June 18 **__ Well, we are near the end of the year. Wikispaces is closing down so this website has come to its end. If you liked any of the pictures or resources feel free to download them for your personal viewing.

I will sign off here. Thank you all for sending your fine children to our school. I really enjoyed teaching all of the grade one students Math this year. They have been a delight to a one, enthusiastic, interested, clever, and talented in so many different ways.

This week we are looking at probability, finishing up capacity, practicing all kinds of Math problems, experimenting, and playing games.

Enjoy a wonderful summer.

Matthew

There was some interest in the capacity and water experiments we did during Math classes this week. Click here to see some pretty fascinating experiments. The experiment we did at school starts at about 1:37.



Well, this school year is certainly hurtling quickly toward its end. This week we continue Measurement starting with linear measure and area and adding work on capacity, which is always fun for students. We will throw in some probability games and problem solving to keep things interesting for the students. Have a great week.

Overall Expectations By the end of Grade 1, students will: • estimate, measure, and describe length, area, mass, capacity, time, and temperature, using non-standard units of the same size; • compare, describe, and order objects, using attributes measured in non-standard units.

Here are some specific expectations and activities for this week. By the end of Grade 1, students will: – demonstrate an understanding of the use of non-standard units of the same size (e.g., straws, index cards) for measuring (Sample problem: Measure the length of your desk in different ways; for example, by using several different non-standard units or by starting measurements from opposite ends of the desk. Discuss your findings.); – estimate, measure (i.e., by placing nonstandard units repeatedly, without overlaps or gaps), and record lengths, heights, and distances (e.g., a book is about 10 paper clips wide; a pencil is about 3 toothpicks long); – construct, using a variety of strategies, tools for measuring lengths, heights, and distances in non-standard units (e.g., footprints on cash register tape or on connecting cubes);


 * identify and describe various coins (i.e., penny, nickel, dime, quarter, $1 coin, $2 coin), using coin manipulatives or drawings, and state their value (e.g., the value of a penny is one cent; the value of a oonie is two dollars); – || represent money amounts to 20¢, through investigation using coin manipulatives; || – add and subtract money amounts to 10¢, using coin manipulatives and drawings. ||

* I had a few questions about the Rekenreks. Here is a teachers resource that explains some of the thinking behind these math machines and some of the ways they can be used. Click on the picture to view

From the curriculum:

By the end of Grade 1, students will: – solve a variety of problems involving the addition and subtraction of whole numbers to 20, using concrete materials and drawings (e.g., pictures, number lines) (Sample problem: Miguel has 12 cookies. Seven cookies are chocolate. Use counters to determine how many cookies are not chocolate.)



There are word problems aplenty on Study Ladder. You will notice I have included a number of 'Grade Two' activities there for those who seek a challenge. It is not necessary for the children to do any of them if they seem too hard.

We have started new Math duotangs with which to finish off the year. The children have worked hard to complete all of their activities and to review any old work that got missed. This week I will send home their old duotangs. There may be unfinished pages and the odd incorrect bit of work. That is okay, they may have needed extra help or remediation with a concept and done small group work with me when I discovered the need. If that was the case I may not have made them go back to do the page work. Those books are just a small part of the daily work they complete in math.

Now that the children's Math skills and confidence have improved as much as they have, we will begin to stress neatness and presentation as an important part of their work during this last term.

A fun idea to try at home is to take a set of anything, count up its members then cover some and have your child work out how many are hidden. Click here for example.

The children are really gaining confidence in solving problems. Here is Livia's work on a problem. If you have 11 balloons in a bag and there are three more red ones than purple, how many purple are there?

I have added some new activities to the study Ladder Roster. Below is an example of a subtraction activity and a word problem activity. Click on the pictures to go to the activity.





We are also practising the idea of **counting on**. When adding 5 + 3 there is no need to count the five, simply to add the three or say 6,7,8. This greatly improves additon speed with larger numbers (imagine 24 + 6). This student did not count the three and the five. Just pushed them all together.

There is **Study Ladder** practice for this this week (click on picture below). By the way, a couple of children mentioned that the study ladder activities were too easy. This program is designed to advance as quickly as possible and to reward correct answers and success by adding challenge and interest while providing foundation practice such as rapid recall of math facts.

Click the picture below to see more examples of student work.



I heard some children were having trouble finding the Study Ladder activities. I had forgotten that they were hard to find at first. Sorry about that. Look for the yellow //Set Tasks// button. It looks like this:

I have added new activities to their roster, including practice of rapid recall of numbers.

If you have any questions about it or anything else in our math program feel free to email me.

There are a lot of opportunities to practise sorting, classifying and finding patterns in the house and out in the world.

This page is part of a website that has links to all ages and curriculum areas. I will use this page to show the curriculum expectations, samples of student work, software that has proven useful for home practice, as well other games and activities. See above for the links to those resources (and please disregard the navigation menu on the left. I have a lot of resources for other grades and subject areas which I am planning to go through and edit or delete).
 * Welcome to our Grade One Math Page. **

Our initial focus will be based on the following three statements:

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 * o ** Everyone can learn and be successful in math. **
 * o ** Our brains can grow and change. No one is born a “math person.” **
 * **o Everyone “sees” math ideas in different ways, and sharing the ways we see math can help everyone learn more. **


 * Study Ladder **

I hope you all found the Study Ladder login names and password for your child's Study Ladder account. If not please let me know. It is a free program and there are no ads (of course they will try to upsell you to the premium program but that has proven unnecessary in the past). The program tracks each student's progress. Below is a sample activity. I will send home the logins and passwords this week. This is a good opportunity to remind students about protecting their passwords. Click [|here] to read a letter to parents from Study Ladder. We will be talking about the following maze for fun this week. There are a surprising amount of math concepts featured here. We will also be reading books and finding out that they are full of math too. Click on the picture below to see a full size version.



Here is a publication called Doing Mathematics with Your Child: A Parent Guide. It is full of ideas and games you can do at home. See page 39 of the document for links to math games and activities for each math strand.

This year each child will have a Study Ladder account which features relevant math skills that the children can practice at home. It tracks their progress. This program has proven very popular in the past so we will use it again this year to support our in-class activities. Click the picture below for a sample activity. I will teach an activity in class each week for the children to practice at home, and they will be able to access different activities that interest them and on which they can work at their own pace.



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Check the websites section.

 I look forward to meeting you all at the meet the teacher evening this week. If you have questions you can reach me at matthew.ridgeway@ocdsb.ca or at 613 254-8400.

Matthew Ridgeway

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Click the link below for all of the grade one curriculum expectations.

http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/curriculum/elementary/grade1.html

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 Curriculum Highlights The following are highlights of student learning in Grade 1 taken from the Ontario Curriculum document. They are provided to give teachers and parents a quick overview of the mathematical knowledge and skills that students are expected to acquire in each strand in this grade. The expectations on the pages that follow outline the required knowledge and skills in detail and provide information about the ways in which students are expected to demonstrate their learning, how deeply they will explore concepts and at what level of complexity they will perform procedures, and the mathematical processes they will learn and apply throughout the grade.

**Number Sense and Numeration**: representing and ordering whole numbers to 50; establishing the conservation of number; representing money amounts to 20¢; decomposing and composing numbers to 20; establishing a one-to-one correspondence when counting the elements in a set; counting by 1’s, 2’s, 5’s, and 10’s; adding and subtracting numbers to 20

**Measurement**: measuring using non-standard units; telling time to the nearest half-hour; developing a sense of area; comparing objects using measurable attributes; comparing objects using non-standard units; investigating the relationship between the size of a unit and the number of units needed to measure the length of an object.

**Geometry and Spatial Sense**: sorting and classifying two-dimensional shapes and three dimensional figures by attributes; recognizing symmetry; relating shapes to other shapes, to designs, and to figures; describing location using positional language

**Patterning and Algebra**: creating and extending repeating patterns involving one attribute; introducing the concept of equality using only concrete materials

**Data Management and Probability**: organizing objects into categories using one attribute; collecting and organizing categorical data; reading and displaying data using concrete graphs and pictographs; describing the likelihood that an event will occur.

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 __Software__

@https://www.ezschool.com/play/grade1/Multiple%20Choice/Game/401

Website of the Week: Practice for all levels at: @http://www.education.com/game/ten-frame-11-20/ @https://www.sheppardsoftware.com/mathgames/menus/comparingnumbers.htm []

https://illuminations.nctm.org/Activity.aspx?id=3564 TVO kids. Number patterns and numeration @http://www.smartfirstgraders.com/first-grade-math.html

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/mathgames/earlymath/bugabalooShoes.htm @https://www.ixl.com/math/grade-1/subtract-with-pictures-numbers-up-to-10 @http://www.education.com/game/fish-bowl-addition/ For those who need a challenge: @https://www.ixl.com/math/grade-1/complete-the-addition-sentence-sums-up-to-10 @http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/math.htm

Patterns

@http://www.abcya.com/patterns.htm

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which is just one of many from []

[|https://ca.ixl.com/math/grade-1/shape-patterns]

https://ca.ixl.com/math/grade-1/shape-patterns • Sheppard Math software is free and engaging software that provides lots of practice in all areas of the math program. It is free and requires no membership, but it does feature some advertising.

IXL software has a feature where you can have free practice up to a limit each day. Try: [] from []

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