Our Final Day of Mathtastic - Photos and Words by Thomas

Mathtastic ended in the fall, but we're just now getting around to publishing some of the awesome photos we've had sitting in our "Drafts" folder on the blog!

Sophia is working with her mom to solve a problem.

Hunter is working really hard with a Smoothie for a Brain Drink!

Jack is working with his mom and he's giving me a funny face. The boxes in the background are from a long time ago when we were doing Cardboard City!

Daniel, thinking very hard with his gigantic pencil!

Miguel is having lots of fun measuring the hallway.

Vickie is counting how long she threw a cotton ball.

Lauren is writing things in her Math Notebook and I think she likes the Canucks!

Melodee is working with really hard with someone is her group and they're working really well together.

Madi is getting really deep into her Math!

All of the girls are working together to solve a pretty hard problem.

I thought Mathtastic was a really good experience, it taught me and the whole class a lot more about Math.

-all photos and words by Thomas

Mathtastic 521 - Session #2

It is wonderful to see the groups of students cooperating and collaborating as they work on their Mathtastic Centres.

Today, my cousin Emeline, who wants to be a teacher, came in for her first day of volunteering. She will come in every Friday and we are so happy to have her coming in! She was a big help for Mathtastic! As were the seven parent volunteers that came in today! We have such a great team of helpers in Room 209.

Some of these centres have a LOT of work, but the wonderful Mathematicians in Room 209 and Room 312 can face up to any challenge creatively and work their way through!

I got to work with this group today on Problem Solving.

Mathtastic 521 - Day 1 by Kaleigh

That's Millie and Laurie (Shauna's mom) - they're working on Krypto, a Math Game. Millie LOVES it!

We did this thing called "Mathtastic 521" with Andrew and Owen's and Shauna's class. It's basically like Math, except like with games and problem solving and other stuff like that.

We were split into groups of three or four and some people got to have some help with the parent volunteers. Thanks to them, we were allowed to do a lot of stuff!

There was Geometry, Games, Problem Solving, Number Sense and Numeration, Probability, Measurement, and Patterning. Everyone will get to work on every centre. You work on each centre for two days. We have done two days this week.

I did Problem Solving. We finished one problem in one day and then the second in the second day.

Shauna, Andrew and Owen (and Andrew and Owen's student teacher, Carolyn) arranged it. And the parent volunteers helped.

I don't usually like Math, but I liked it because of Mathtastic. It's fun and it's not as hard and you work with other people. It's good to work with other people because they can help you and you can help them.

I am really excited about Geometry and Games and Measurement.

I know I am good at addition and subtraction in Math. I'm also good at a little bit of multiplication. I want to practice Geometry.

Laryssa and James problem solving, just like me!

This is Jack, and Millie's hand!

Sophia and Gabby working on Games - this is Tangrams.

Fiona and Julianna - the twins - working together. They are doing Geometry.

Finley and her dad, Al working on Geometry.

Me! Kaleigh!

-by Kaleigh