Statistics is a discipline of gathering and working with data to make sense of what's going on and to predict what might happen in the...

For three days in one week, my daughter found a centipede in our dining room. On the third day, I said to her, “Wow! That’s centipede...

What child doesn’t love snacks? But did you know? Children have an innate interest about numbers and shapes too. This curiosity can be...

What a Grade 6 Taught Me About Risk-Taking in Math A Grade 6 student and I were working on a geometry activity. Part of the activity was...

Extracurricular Activities – how to find the balance for children Baseball tryouts, soccer practice, martial art classes, dance lessons,...

“What two numbers are best friends?” – Kids and Creative Math Journaling What would a child say when you ask them “what two numbers are...

Re-tests, extended due dates, no homework expectations…what do these have in common? Some educators claim that these are breeding a...

A “Slow Learner” Revisits Her Learning Experience “If you’ve told a child a thousand times and he/she still does not understand, then it...

A minimum of one hour of math per day required in Ontario classrooms was announced early this week. As the Ontario education minister...

One tricky hedgehog trashed tiny Homer’s magical buttons. This was a phrase a Gr 6 student designed to help himself remember the order of...

Every child is creative, but every child expresses creativity in a unique way. Math is often the last subject that comes in mind to many...

It has been a whole two months since I started my battle against a Senior Kindergarten boy’s lack of motivation to write. Although...

I have been working with a Senior Kindergarten child for two months, and let me tell you, this is not just any SK child. This SK boy is...

Young learners often consider mathematics as a field of knowledge that consists of numbers and rules that they are told to follow. In my...

“I want to be a garbage man” was the response of a Grade 3 boy when his mom asked him what he wants to be when he grows up. Since this...

Recently, two problems completed by Grade 3 students caught my attention. So I analyzed the errors my students made. Jason and his two...

They come home with white board marker stains on their hands. Dinner conversations sometimes include stories about students or technical...

Usually at the beginning of the class, we are reminded of the following: “This is your practice, your body. Listen to your body and...

“Do you think Einstein was rich?” was the opening line of a conversation a Grade 5 student started with me one day. I truly didn’t know....

“Sue Ellen Adds It Up”, one of the 2015-episodes of the most classic book and television series, hit the nail on the head by discussing a...