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Unleash your creativity with the world's best virtual manipulatives!

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Mathies - Money (Canadian bills and coins)

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Mathies - Money (Canadian bills and coins)

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https://mathies.ca/tools/Money/index.html

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https://www.youcubed.org/tasks/the-four-4s/

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Jo has used this task with a lot of success on the first days of school with very hesitant students. Soon after setting the challenge the board area becomes full of students putting up their solutions, then returning to their seat to look for more. For students, it is a very safe and non threatening activity. It builds number sense and is a fun challenge. This task is also a really nice way of helping students become comfortable sharing their work in front of the class. The first appearance of four 4's was in English mathematician: WW Rouse Ball's Mathematical Recreations and Essays in 1892, and then revisited by Constance Reid in 'From Zero to Infinity' in 1955.

Task Instructions

Can you find every number between 1 and 20 using only four 4's and any operation?

or

Can we as a class find every number between 1 and 20 using only four 4's and any operation?

Here's an example √4 + √4 + 4⁄4 =

Give this challenge to students and write all the numbers from 1 to 20 on the board. Then ask students to come to the board and write a solution any time they have one. The more solutions you get for each number the better.

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Jo has used this task with a lot of success on the first days of school with very hesitant students. Soon after setting the challenge the board area becomes full [...]

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https://estimation180.com/

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How do I get started? 1 USE THE FREE MATH LESSONS Estimation 180 Tasks 3-Act Tasks 2 SUBSCRIBE Email Newsletter Podcast

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http://centraledesmaths.uregina.ca/index.php

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Des ressources didactiques pour les enseignants de mathématiques, un service question/réponse pour enseignants et élèves, le problème du mois, les carrières de mathématiciens (célèbres) et plus encore.

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51 Esti-Mysteries - Steve Wyborney's Blog: I'm on a Learning Mission.

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A variety of tasks that can be filtered by grade or strand. From Stanford University (Jo Boaler and colleagues).

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An online math magazine from Marian Small and Rubicon publishing. First 3 issues are free. After that, a paid subscription is required.

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In "The Latest," M Magazine brings you a pair of in-depth feature articles and interviews each issue. M Magazine goes into detail about topics that are on the minds of math educators now, such as teaching virtually, understanding equity, and teaching financial literacy.

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M Magazine | A new online magazine dedicated to empowering and highlighting the work of math educators across Canada and beyond

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In "The Latest," M Magazine brings you a pair of in-depth feature articles and interviews each issue. M Magazine goes into detail about topics that are on the minds of math educators now, such as teaching virtually, understanding equity, and teaching financial literacy.

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Fawn Nguyen's site of hundreds of visual patterns.

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Welcome! Explore these patterns with your students and watch their natural tendencies to see patterns morph into powerful algebraic thinking and reasoning. It's an ideal routine to foster mathematical practice #7 - look for and make use of structure.

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Explore these patterns with your students and watch their natural tendencies to see patterns morph into powerful algebraic thinking and reasoning. It's an ideal routine to foster mathematical practice #7 - look for and make use of structure.

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From Number Lines to Base Ten, Pattern Blocks to Place Value, Disks our collection of free Virtual Manipulatives gives educators and families access to visual and hands-on digital resources that lead to understanding. Students can use these resources in class and at home to practice math concepts, reinforce their growing math understanding, technology they love in the process.

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Demonstrate key math concepts in your classroom using our new virtual manipulatives!

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You can also search "Growing Shapes" on youcubed.org for a more complete lesson plan in PDF form for this same task.

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Task Instructions

We often see growth pattern tasks that focus on numerical questions like "How many squares are in the 100th case?" or "How many squares are in the nth case?" These are good questions, but we only ask them after we focus on what the shape looks like and how it grows. We start by asking students "How do you see the shapes growing?" and we ask that they make their answer entirely visual, that they forget about counting and numbers. Color coding is often a great tool for this.

Once students share how they see the growth in the pattern we then proceed to the numerical and algebraic questions. Having looked at the pattern growth visually opens up the ways of thinking about the pattern to answer the question about the 100th and the nth case. It also shows students how we all see math differently even in a question that has a single numerical answer.

As an extension of this task, we sometimes ask students to come up with algebraic expressions that match the different visual ways of seeing the pattern grow. This might give rise to a question like "Since the number of squares is the same in each way of seeing why do the algebraic representations look different?" and it might lead into a conversation about equivalent algebraic expressions and simplification. Discussions about this idea and question bridge the visual and algebraic ways of thinking and exercise the connections between different parts of the brain.

Reference

Ruth Parker and the Mathematics Education Collaborative, MEC

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We often see growth pattern tasks that focus on numerical questions like "How many squares are in the 100th case?" or "How many squares are in the nth case?" These are good questions, but we only ask them after we focus on what the shape looks like and how it grows.

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Open Questions for Rich Math Lessons - Patterns and Relations/Statistics and Probability - Marian Small

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Open Questions for Rich Math Lessons - Patterns and Relations/Statistics and Probability - Marian Small

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Book format. Publisher = Rubicon

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source for stickers from session 2

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Public Math is a collective that seeks to support positive math identities through projects that engage children, families, and adults in playful, creative mathematics as they go about their daily lives. Playgrounds, public transportation, waiting rooms, fairs, and neighborhoods are the venues for our work.

We are grateful for the financial support of CPM, Desmos, The Math Learning Center, and The Math Happens Foundation.

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Public Math is a collective that seeks to support positive math identities through projects that engage children, families, and adults in playful, creative mathematics as they go about their daily lives. Playgrounds, public transportation, waiting rooms, fairs, and neighborhoods are the venues for our work.

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Steve Wyborney\\\'s Blog: I\\\'m on a Learning Mission.

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For my educator friends who have access to Google Slides, but do not have access to PowerPoint, this post is for you. Since Google Slides does not have the animation that makes the Splats become transparent, the Splat! reveal does not work in Slides. Now - with these materials - it will. I've rewritten the first 20 Splat! lessons and the first 20 Fraction Splat! lessons with a different method so they will now include the reveal when using Google Slides.

The content of the lessons is the same as the original lessons.

Visit these links to see the original videos about how to use the and the Fraction Splat! slides.

Quick Note: The file sharing power of Google Drive is impressive and highly useful. However, for the purposes of sharing these resources, I need to use a method that I can personally maintain, update and support - and I've learned that the best way to provide resources from my blog is through the download links and the sign-up forms.

I hope you enjoy these Splats! formatted to work in Google Slides!

Splat Through 10
How many dots are under the Splat?
SPLAT 1.1 - numbers through 10 (Google Slides compatible version)
SPLAT 2.1 - with numbers 12-20 (Google Slides compatible version) SPLAT 2.2 - with numbers 12-20 (Google Slides compatible version) SPLAT 2.3 - with numbers 12-20 (Google Slides compatible version) SPLAT 2.4 - with numbers 12-20 (Google Slides compatible version) SPLAT 2.5 - with numbers 12-20 (Google Slides compatible version) SPLAT 1.2 - numbers through 10 (Google Slides compatible version)SPLAT 3.1 - multiple splats (Google Slides compatible version) SPLAT 3.2 - multiple splats (Google Slides compatible version) SPLAT 3.3 - multiple splats (Google Slides compatible version) SPLAT 3.4 - multiple splats (Google Slides compatible version) SPLAT 3.5 - multiple splats (Google Slides compatible version)
SPLAT 4.1 - instant multiple splats (Google Slides compatible version) SPLAT 4.2 - instant multiple splats (Google Slides compatible version) SPLAT 4.3 - instant multiple splats (Google Slides compatible version) SPLAT 4.4 - instant multiple splats (Google Slides compatible version) SPLAT 4.5 - instant multiple splats (Google Slides compatible version) Note: These lessons use a single splat along with a mixture of unit fractions and whole numbers. In Level 11, you control the Splat! SPLAT 11.1 - fraction splats (Google Slides compatible version) SPLAT 11.2 - fraction splats (Google Slides compatible version) SPLAT 11.3 - fraction splats (Google Slides compatible version) SPLAT 11.4 - fraction splats (Google Slides compatible version) SPLAT 11.5 - fraction splats (Google Slides compatible version) SPLAT 1.3 - numbers through 10 (Google Slides compatible version)Note: These lessons use a single Splat! which appears at the same moment as the whole numbers and fractions. Each question instantly presents missing information. SPLAT 12.1 - Instant Fraction Splats (Google Slides compatible version) SPLAT 12.2 - Instant Fraction Splats (Google Slides compatible version) SPLAT 12.3 - Instant Fraction Splats (Google Slides compatible version) SPLAT 12.4 - Instant Fraction Splats (Google Slides compatible version) SPLAT 12.5 - Instant Fraction Splats (Google Slides compatible version) Multiple Splats! with Fractions Note: These lessons include multiple Splats! and you control the timing of the Splats! The entire screen can be seen, the total can be determined, and then Splat! Remember: Each Splat! that is the same color must be covering the same number. SPLAT 13.1 - Multiple Fraction Splats (Google Slides compatible version) SPLAT 13.2 - Multiple Fraction Splats (Google Slides compatible version) SPLAT 13.3 - Multiple Fraction Splats (Google Slides compatible version) SPLAT 13.4 - Multiple Fraction Splats (Google Slides compatible version) SPLAT 13.5 - Multiple Fraction Splats (Google Slides compatible version)
Note: These lessons use multiple Splats! which appear at the same moment as the whole numbers and fractions. Each question instantly presents missing information. Remember: Each Splat! that is the same color must be covering the same number. SPLAT 14.1 - Instant Multiple Fraction Splats (Google Slides compatible version) SPLAT 14.2 - Instant Multiple Fraction Splats (Google Slides compatible version) SPLAT 14.3 - Instant Multiple Fraction Splats (Google Slides compatible version) SPLAT 14.4 - Instant Multiple Fraction Splats (Google Slides compatible version) SPLAT 14.5 - Instant Multiple Fraction Splats (Google Slides compatible version) SPLAT 1.4 - numbers through 10 (Google Slides compatible version)
SPLAT 1.5 - numbers through 10 (Google Slides compatible version)

Splat Through 20
How many dots are under the Splat?

Multiple Splats
Note: Splats that are the same color must cover the same number.

Instant Multiple Splat
Note: An additional feature of this level is the opportunity to ask, "What could the total be?"

Instant Fraction Splat!

Multiple Instant Splats! with Fractions

After reading this blog post, take a look at THE 12 MOST POPULAR MATH STRATEGIES AND DOWNLOADS ON THIS BLOG.

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Splat! for Google Slides - 40 Lessons - Steve Wyborney's Blog: I'm on a Learning Mission.

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For my educator friends who have access to Google Slides, but do not have access to PowerPoint, this post is for you. Since Google Slides does not have the

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Great rich tasks for small group work or whole class problem solving!

https://mathforlove.com

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… efforts to intensify attention to the traditional mathematics curriculum do not necessarily lead to increased competency with quantitative data and numbers. While perhaps surprising to many in the public, this conclusion follows from a simple recognition that is, unlike mathematics, numeracy does not so much lead upwards in an ascending pursuit of abstraction as it moves outward toward an ever richer engagement with life’s diverse contexts and situations.

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Coast Metro Marian Small April 19 Grade 4

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A bunch of different units based on the body. Columns to calibrate into metric and imperial measures for reference. (May want to re-create with just metric calibrations.) (originally received from Dr. Susan Gerofsky, UBC)

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https://mathigon.org/polypad
Ruler, set triangle, and protractor. All adjust in size.
Work with students that the ruler and set triangle are "units" rather than centimeters (will change size depending on screen size).

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Linear Measurement 4-pager (Janice Novakowski)

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Linear Measurement 4-pager (Janice Novakowski)

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Poses questions in a "Would you rather..." format. Students use mathematical understandings and calculations to make a decision and justify it.

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Would You Rather Math – ASKING STUDENTS TO CHOOSE A PATH AND JUSTIFY IT WITH MATH

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Teachers, sign up for my mini-workshop to learn about how to implement Would You Rather Math into your classroom routines. We will explore some sentence frames, what happens when things don’t go as planned, how to use the prompts in a remote learning setting, and much more. See you there!