27 Apr 2020
Greetings fellow mathematicians!
We hope you have all had a relaxing and much deserved holiday with your families. We would also like to take this opportunity to acknowledge and thank you for your terrific efforts in mathematics last term. We could see excellent investigations, use of mathematical meta-language and good control of procedures and strategies when investigating concepts such as addition, subtraction, multiplication and division!
We are so excited for Term 2 and our teachers have created engaging numeracy lessons across the school in our online learning platform and also our take home package products. We look forward to your upcoming investigations and particularly, your ability to reflect upon what you have understood mathematically. We are so fortunate to have teachers and students who are highly passionate about mathematics and how amazing this learning domain actually is. It has been wonderful to see confident students investigating mathematical concepts at their own instructional level and even choosing to challenge themselves in their thinking and understanding.
A few things to remember for this term are;
*Ask your teacher for assistance when it is needed or you get stuck in your mathematical thinking during daily tasks. Our teachers are always happy to provide feedback and support you in your learning.
* Remember to try to answer the reflection questions for your assigned daily tasks as this gives us great insight to what you have understood about mathematics once you have completed an investigation. Try to use meta-language to explain and articulate your thinking too!
* Practice your counting sequences and number facts (addition, subtraction and multiplication) as often as you can, as this will help storing it in your long-term memory and retrieving it when you need to use them to solve problems.
* Drawing your thinking in mathematics is also an excellent way to demonstrate what you understand about a concept. The see-saw suite has many drawing tools that you can access to do this so get creative!
* Challenge yourself when and where you can. Remember if the work you are investigating is too easy, your brain isn’t getting sweaty and therefore your learning is limited! We need our brains to experience what research calls ‘productive struggle’ in order for true learning to occur.
Welcome back everyone! We will be viewing your work regularly and providing feedback to share our insights with you all. Exciting times ahead 😊
Ms DiMarco and the Numeracy Team