MPI Day 7 - Geometric Thinking

 It was great today to be reminded of the Class on Air resource, and see the search and filter functions this morning. I feel this is a resource I often forget to utalise in my planning. 

Subitising is a new concept name for me as I had not heard it before. I found the linked resource amazing and have already linked an activity to my class programming with the intent on doing many more with my students.

The site of Math Playground is new for me and has so many great activities and progressions. I have added thr symmetry painter activity to my planning as a warm up to help refresh some of our previous learning from earlier this year.

Mathigon is yet another new site for me this session. The courses especially seem to be quite extensive, and I think this will be a fantastic tool for my classroom, especially for my higher learners whom I can at times find extending appropriatly difficult.

It was great to spend time today going through concepts that I have already taught this year, and to see some different ways of approaching these, and also how they translate in our new draft curriculum document. It is always helpful when my own professional learning can be tailored to what is current in the profession, and MPI is most definitly adjusting each session to the new information, while not getting rid of the good practice and content. I am feeling confident that the learning I am doing will still be relevent in years to come for myself and my students.

Coming out of today, I am excited to have a list of strategies, resources and misconceptions that I will be taking with me into my classroom planning and daily practice. It has been good to have models and tasks revisited briefly from previous days (frayer model/figure it out online resources/Jo Boalar/tip charts/talk moves/rich tasks etc). Polypad was heaps of fun to explore and I can see fantastic potential for this tool too.

MPI Day 5 - Algebraic Thinking

Todays content of MPI was around algebra. We covered a lot on a wide variety of elements of this, and it was really good to be able to explore all levels of the curriculum in this area. It was good seeing how it looked at all these levels, and helpful to understand where students should be coming from and going to next.

I particularly enjoyed the discussion around mathematical discourse and the vocabulary required of students when building and consolidating these concepts.

Exploring the equals sign and other symbols and expressions was affirming for me and the way I currently teach mathematics in ym classroom. I often talk with my students around the 'language of maths' and how it is like learning another language. This works well for many of my students who are exposed to and often speak multiple lanuguages in their daily lives. Understanding there is deeper and often multiple meanings and therefore uses for a range of symbols helps students grasp the complexity and depth of what they are doing with more ease.

It was fantastic discovering more resources again today, specifically the following two of the online abacus and solvemoji.com/. I am also really looking forward to using 99math.com.