SD71 Math Resources

Professional Resource - Focus

March 14th is Pi Day - grade seven teachers, check out the activities to have fun with your measurement unit.

Accessible Mathematics:  10 Instructional Shifts That Raise Student Achievement by Steven Leinqward(available in the LRC Professional Library)

Quoted from Chapter 3 Ready, Set, Review page 14

"So What Should We See in an Effective Mathematics Classroom?

- A deliberate and carefully planned reliance on ongoing cumulative review of key skills and concepts

- Using cumulative review to keep skills and understandings fresh, reinforce previously taught materials and give students a chance to clarify their understnadings

- Classess that waste no time and begin with substantive mathematics at the very start of every class

- The use of a brief review and whole-class checking of "mini-math" questions as an opportunity to re-teach when necessary"