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		<title>On-line applets for Grade 9 Algebraic Thinking</title>
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Hello to all those exploring the new Grade 9 Math curriculum!  The new prescribed learning outcomes for this curriculum are very clear &#8211; students need to model and solve linear equations in various forms, and apply the operations to polynomial expressions concretely, pictorially and abstractly.
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		<title>Protected: Grade 9 &#8211; Algebraic Thinking Tasks</title>
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		<title>Grade 9 Circle Properties&#8230; on YouTube!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 02:28:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK.  I gotta get me a TV.
I was working through some of the content for the Grade 9 curriculum and stumbled upon some YouTube videos that might be helpful.  The teacher who does the demonstrations is lovely, although the comments below her vids aren&#8217;t particularly kind.  If you show these to your students, consider using [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mindfull.wordpress.com&blog=448900&post=653&subd=mindfull&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pythagoras was here&#8230; a cool interactive applet&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:11:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check this out!
My tech-savvy husband Tom put me onto a great free and open-source application called GeoNext.  It is powerful and intuitive software for creating and demonstrating geometric principles and properties.  The link below takes you to a site that makes use of the software for demonstration purposes, but also poses a range of problems [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mindfull.wordpress.com&blog=448900&post=647&subd=mindfull&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Grade 9 tasks and games &#8211; number</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:59:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello to the gang in Campbell River!
As promised, I have posted some of the tasks we did together last night that touch the grade 9 curriculum &#8211; and other grades too, depending on how they are used&#8230;
Click below to download select slides from the presentation last evening:
Rich tasks for Grade 9 &#8211; Games and Good [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mindfull.wordpress.com&blog=448900&post=642&subd=mindfull&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The big math ideas &#8211; grade 2/3</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:43:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello to my friends in Coquitlam!  Here are the slides you were looking for, outlining the Big Math Ideas for grade 2/3 math &#8211; or at least for the first part of the year!  Remember that in teaching in the way (considering the enduing understandings) it is far easier to stay sane as a combined [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mindfull.wordpress.com&blog=448900&post=638&subd=mindfull&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>100,000 hits!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:07:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Holy cow!  Math education is alive and well&#8230;.!  
Yesterday marked the 100,000th hit on this blog!
I credit my husband Tom who encouraged me (ok, TAUGHT me how) to set up a blog in the first place, and you, the people who read the posts and access materials to support your students.  We hail from all [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mindfull.wordpress.com&blog=448900&post=635&subd=mindfull&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Printable Games for Grade 3 Number sense</title>
		<link>http://mindfull.wordpress.com/2009/09/28/printable-games-for-grade-3-number-sense/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 01:26:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One more thing to share this evening for the gang in Whitehorse!
As promised, I wanted to post the games for practicing number sense and operations as connected to our Grade 3 math curriculum.  There are many more tasks where these came from &#8211; and they are available for students as young as 3 years of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mindfull.wordpress.com&blog=448900&post=630&subd=mindfull&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Number Patterns for Grade 3 &#8211; Pattern 3 Ways</title>
		<link>http://mindfull.wordpress.com/2009/09/28/number-patterns-for-grade-3-pattern-3-ways/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:44:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is another set of support materials for those wanting to play the &#8220;Roll and go game&#8221; from Math Makes Sense, Grade 3.
Click above for the instructions, which are drawn directly from the resource.
Try having your students record their patterns in 3 ways (and for a challenge, in 4) on the Number Pattern Three Ways [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mindfull.wordpress.com&blog=448900&post=626&subd=mindfull&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Where&#8217;s the party? Number Patterns for Grade 3</title>
		<link>http://mindfull.wordpress.com/2009/09/28/wheres-the-party-number-patterns-for-grade-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:27:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello to the Whitehorse gang!
As promised, I have uploaded the line masters for the task we did today.  It is intended to tie together experiences of skip counting by a number (4, 8, 12, 16, etc), describing a pattern rule (we started at 9 and counted by threes) and using a hundreds chart as a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mindfull.wordpress.com&blog=448900&post=616&subd=mindfull&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hundreds chart and calculator applet!</title>
		<link>http://mindfull.wordpress.com/2009/09/27/hello-maple-ridge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:24:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Something I wanted to mention especially for my friends at early primary is this National Council of Teachers of Mathematics site.  It&#8217;s a hundreds chart and a calculator applet &#8211; as you punch numbers and add to them, the corresponding numbers in the hundred&#8217;s chart are highlighted.  it&#8217;s pretty cool &#8211; and very [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mindfull.wordpress.com&blog=448900&post=71&subd=mindfull&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Intermediate on-line math games</title>
		<link>http://mindfull.wordpress.com/2009/09/26/intermediate-on-line-math-games/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 06:07:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK, OK &#8211; I&#8217;d hate for you to feel left out!
For my colleagues who teach Intermediate Math, there are a ton of on-line resources to support you and your students.
Here are some of my new favourites:
Make 15 &#8211; You play against the computer, alternating you choice of numbers to create a set with a total [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mindfull.wordpress.com&blog=448900&post=611&subd=mindfull&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pre-school and early primary on-line math games</title>
		<link>http://mindfull.wordpress.com/2009/09/24/pre-school-and-early-primary-on-line-math-games/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:26:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am always on the hunt for quality math games for our earliest learners &#8211; and am always pleased when I find some that DON&#8217;T require children to be readers!
These PBS games are a real find &#8211; A whole white board of tasks to use with students. Many are very very basic, and look at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mindfull.wordpress.com&blog=448900&post=608&subd=mindfull&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kindergarten Math Materials</title>
		<link>http://mindfull.wordpress.com/2009/09/03/kindergarten-math-materials/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 02:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello to my K teaching friends in Kelowna!  I wanted to post some Kindergarten-relevant materials here, just for you&#8230;  All in one place and easy to find, as a follow up to our 2 days together.
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Here is the line master for the book Five Black Dots:  (play around on your photocopier to have them [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mindfull.wordpress.com&blog=448900&post=581&subd=mindfull&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reflecting &#8211; critically &#8211; on blogging in education</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:08:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So today I had the opportunity to talk with a group of educators &#8211; virtually &#8211; about the power of blogs in education.  Although we ended up cruising through my own blog specifically, there are some points to be made in general about blogs and their purpose and place in an educational setting&#8230;
First, the reason [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mindfull.wordpress.com&blog=448900&post=574&subd=mindfull&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mental Math Strategies</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:16:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello to the gang at Beaver Creek &#8211; the first school with whom I have worked to have chosen Mental Math as an instructional focus for their school goal&#8230; wow!  You rock!  :o)
I have attached a fleshed out list of  mental math strategies for you.  As mentioned, they would be great to put on the wall [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mindfull.wordpress.com&blog=448900&post=564&subd=mindfull&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pokémon math!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 23:50:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK, OK.
I never really understood what Pokémon were until I saw a young friend of mine playing the game &#8211; and watched him manipulating large numbers effortlessly&#8230;  So I decided to use the context of the game to help grades 2 and 3 students work with number sense and operations to 100 and to 1000.
Here&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mindfull.wordpress.com&blog=448900&post=559&subd=mindfull&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cool game for make tens strategy &#8211; primary</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 04:39:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check this out!  Reminds me of an electronic version of Tri-Ominoes from my youth!  Students arrange small triangles within a larger one to make sums of ten.  Strategic and challenging practice!
One Big Triangle
Carole
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		<title>Shape and Space Tasks</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 03:54:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For my ever thought-full friends in the valley&#8230;  

Here are the shape and space/measurement tasks we did this evening, aimed at intermediate.
Thanks for keeping me company in the sunshine tonight!  
Click below for the full selection!
shape-and-space-tasks
Enjoy!   Carole
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		<title>Great bilingual site for teachers and students&#8230; Check it out!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 03:53:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Math Central is an award winning site  maintained by faculty and students in Mathematics and Statistics and Mathematics Education at the University of Regina in Regina.  It exists in both English and French (and Spanish!!) and features famous mathematicians, teacher resources, even a problem of the week&#8230;
Enjoy!
Math Central
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