The Ontario Math Curriculum, Grades 1 to 8

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The Ontario Math Curriculum, Grades 1 to 8

• Think back to your days as a student in
  elementary school.
• What mathematics can you recall?
• Dont look in the curriculum guide
• You dont have to remember topics precisely
• Suggest what you think you know----
• Well turn those into the Ontario elementary
  mathematics strands!

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The Ontario Math Curriculum, Grades 1 to 8

• The five mathematics strands in Ontario
  elementary mathematics are
• Number sense and Numeration
• Think about what might be meant by Number
  Sense.
• Measurement
• What does it mean to be measurable? Remember,
  its fundamentally an act of comparison.
• Geometry and Spatial Sense
• Think about what might be meant by Spatial
  Sense.
• P.S. Note how spatial is spelled!

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The Ontario Math Curriculum, Grades 1 to 8

• The five mathematics strands in Ontario
  elementary mathematics are (continued)
• Patterning and Algebra
• What comes to mind with patterning?
• What comes to mind when you see algebra?
• Why do you think these are together in the same
  strand?
• Data Management and Probability
• What is data, anyway?
• What comes to mind when you think about
  managing data?

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The Ontario Math Curriculum, Grades 1 to 8

• When we see the names for the five strands,
  something comes to mind for each of us. This is a
  TEXT representation
• When we read the details of each strand, we think
  again about what each means. We deepen the TEXT
  representation
• Id like you to think about them in quite a
  different way for a minutethrough a Visual,
  Concrete Metaphor representation. Think of
  strand as yarn. What do you SEE?