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	<description>what&#039;s worth learning, teaching and assessing in math...  by carole saundry-fullerton</description>
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		<title>Math and The Holidays</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Happy holidays, everyone!
As someone who &#8211; this year &#8211; will celebrate both Hanukkah and Christmas, I wanted to re-post a couple of seasonal problems for you&#8230;  There is math everywhere!

The first:
There are 8 days of Hanukkah. For each of the 8 days, a candle is lit and placed in the menorah &#8211; one on the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mindfull.wordpress.com&blog=448900&post=675&subd=mindfull&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://mindfull.wordpress.com/2009/12/14/math-and-the-holidays/</link>
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		<title>Protected: Grade 9 Math &#8211; Circle Properties</title>
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		<link>http://mindfull.wordpress.com/2009/11/30/grade-9-math-circle-properties/</link>
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		<title>More primary games for developing number sense!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thank you for coming this evening in such numbers to play and talk math!  It is so important that we work conscientiously on developing number sense in our students &#8211; the ability to compare sets, to build and represent number in many ways, to partition and decompose number &#8211; in advance of working with the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mindfull.wordpress.com&blog=448900&post=666&subd=mindfull&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://mindfull.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/for-the-folks-in-abbotsford-primary-games-for-developing-number-sense/</link>
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		<title>On-line applets for Grade 9 Algebraic Thinking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160;
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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So &#8211; sounds like we&#8217;ll need some tools to do this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mindfull.wordpress.com&blog=448900&post=663&subd=mindfull&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://mindfull.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/on-line-applets-for-grade-9-algebraic-thinking/</link>
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		<title>Protected: Grade 9 &#8211; Algebraic Thinking Tasks</title>
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		<link>http://mindfull.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/grade-9-algebraic-thinking-tasks/</link>
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		<title>Grade 9 Circle Properties&#8230; on YouTube!</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://mindfull.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/grade-9-circle-properties-on-youtube/</link>
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		<title>Pythagoras was here&#8230; a cool interactive applet&#8230;</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://mindfull.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/pythagoras-was-here-a-cool-interactive-applet/</link>
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		<title>Grade 9 tasks and games &#8211; number</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://mindfull.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/grade-9-tasks-and-links-of-interest/</link>
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		<title>The big math ideas &#8211; grade 2/3</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://mindfull.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/the-big-math-ideas-grade-23/</link>
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		<title>100,000 hits!</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://mindfull.wordpress.com/2009/10/09/100000-hits/</link>
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		<title>Printable Games for Grade 3 Number sense</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://mindfull.wordpress.com/2009/09/28/printable-games-for-grade-3-number-sense/</link>
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		<title>Number Patterns for Grade 3 &#8211; Pattern 3 Ways</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://mindfull.wordpress.com/2009/09/28/number-patterns-for-grade-3-pattern-3-ways/</link>
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		<title>Where&#8217;s the party? Number Patterns for Grade 3</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://mindfull.wordpress.com/2009/09/28/wheres-the-party-number-patterns-for-grade-3/</link>
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		<title>Hundreds chart and calculator applet!</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://mindfull.wordpress.com/2009/09/27/hello-maple-ridge/</link>
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		<title>Intermediate on-line math games</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://mindfull.wordpress.com/2009/09/26/intermediate-on-line-math-games/</link>
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		<title>Pre-school and early primary on-line math games</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://mindfull.wordpress.com/2009/09/24/pre-school-and-early-primary-on-line-math-games/</link>
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		<title>Kindergarten Math Materials</title>
		<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.
Here goes:
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>
		<link>http://mindfull.wordpress.com/2009/09/03/kindergarten-math-materials/</link>
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		<title>Reflecting &#8211; critically &#8211; on blogging in education</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://mindfull.wordpress.com/2009/08/25/welcome-back/</link>
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		<title>Mental Math Strategies</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://mindfull.wordpress.com/2009/06/01/mental-math-strategies/</link>
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		<title>Pokémon math!</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://mindfull.wordpress.com/2009/06/01/pokemon-math/</link>
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