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Students, you can download homework files, explore fantastic websites, and send comments or questions through the contact form.
Parents, you can find a great variety of helpful links that can be useful to assist and guide your kids with their homework and projects. You can explore some of these websites to play family games with your kids and at the same time having fun learning math.
Also, there is a contact form that you can use to send feedback to improve this website or to check anything related to your kid's math performance.
inside of our math classrooms
Adult guidance and peer collaboration
We, math teachers, believe in the potential of your child to construct their own knowledge under the guidance of teachers, peers, or with the support of technological tools such as computers. We act as mediators to develop and enhance your child’s learning. Our curriculum and lesson plans have been designed to further each student’s potential through social interactive activities inside and outside of the math classroom. Technology such as computers, calculators and more can be used to make students explore and reach their maximum potential. However, social interaction between peers, teachers or adults is the primary source of learning promoted in our math classrooms. Our math classrooms are communities of learning Physical environment of the math classroom: grouped desks or tables and work space for peer instruction, collaboration and guidance, and small group instruction. Each classroom is equipped with mathematical artifacts, pictures, and symbols in several languages. You are welcome to donate anything that can positively impact our math classrooms. Curriculum design and lesson planning: these are structured to promote and encourage social interaction through collaboration and guidance. |
Instructional strategies used in our math classrooms
Scaffolding Scaffolding methodology is the simplification of tasks to make them manageable to students but at the same time motivating and challenging. Scaffolding activities will ensure students develop through gradual stages. Peer tutoring is essential for students to reach or reinforce their cognitive development. For example, to teach the use of the general formula to solve quadratic equations, we would plan the lesson by presenting examples where and how they can use the general formula. Then, we ask students to help us solve more quadratic equations by using the general formula while simultaneously talking through the process as a group. Finally, we give the students a few more problems where they have to solve quadratic equations by using the general formula on their own. In this way, we take the students from not knowing anything about solving quadratic equations by using the general formula to knowing how to do it on their own. Cooperative learning Students are able to make the connection between mathematics and the world in scenarios tied to their communities. Working in groups, they use negotiation, communication, reasoning, and cooperation to complete each assignment. They learn the importance of trusting team members and can call on the knowledge of others. Together, they create a larger and better picture of the situation than they could alone. Reciprocal teaching and cognitive guidance This is a two way interaction between students and teacher to engage in deep discussions over text materials: Do you know that the symbol π is used to represent one of the most important numbers in mathematics? What number is it? How can you determine its value? etc. There is an open dialogue between students and teacher to discuss different methods of problem solving strategies: Is there a short cut to solve this? Check out some problem solving strategies by clicking here |