Learning Opportunities

Children arrive in Grade 1 with a range of abilities —from those just learning to count to those who can add, subtract, multiply, and divide with small numbers. How do teachers support all of these children to learn with understanding, enthusiasm, and proficiency? In this highly interactive course, we focus on recognizing and assessing children’s initial thinking so that we can help them to develop more efficient addition and subtraction strategies.

Highlights of Course:

• Analyze student videos to learn to recognize and assess the many strategies children use for basic calculations
• Develop a continuum of strategies from early counting (e.g., counting three times) through increasingly efficient strategies to knowing the ‘facts’
• Analyze student work and thinking on the continuum
• Practise mini-lessons, create word problems, and play games that foster children’s growth and learning
• Align early learning math strategies to AB math curriculum

This learning opportunity is being offered through curriculum implementation funding from Alberta Education.