Don't FEAR the WRATH of MATH!

Do your students cringe at the thought of problem solving? Do you cringe at the thought of teaching problem solving? In either event, to prepare students for that upcoming math assignment click here.
 

Students are encouraged to read through and click on the Grade that pertains to them located on the right hand side of the page. Once this has been done, have them click on the Grade 6 icon in the center of the page. Once they have done that there will be a number of different skills that you can have to them practice. Students, you can do this at home with your parents, siblings or with your friends. Hint: Our focus for an upcoming lesson may be on "Charts and Graphs".

If your students are wondering about which expectations this covers in the Ontario Curriculum Standards. By the end of Grade 5, students are to:

• collect and organize discrete or continuous primary data and secondary data and display the data using charts and graphs, including continuous line graphs.

Most specifically the activity will focus on an appropriate type of graph to represent a set of data, graph the data using technology, and justify the choice of graph (i.e., from types of graphs already studied, such as pictographs, horizontal or vertical bar graphs, stem-and-leaf plots, double bar graphs, broken-line graphs, and continuous line graphs)

Curriculum Guidelines can be found at:
http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/curriculum/elementary/math18curr.pdf