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June 2025 - Overview of the Year

Overview

Throughout the year, the mathematical processes have been showcased to demonstrate the learning that students engage in as they experience the math curriculum.

Here's a brief summary of the mathematical processes:

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May 2025 - Selecting Strategies

When you face a problem or a challenge, there are different ways to solve it. These different ways are called “strategies.” Just like having a toolbox with different tools for different tasks, having a variety of strategies can help you tackle different problems.

Here are some strategies students use in the classroom:

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April 2025 - Selecting Tools

In mathematics, tools refer to physical objects or digital resources that students use to explore and understand mathematical concepts. Students learn how to choose tools to help them solve problems and to represent and communicate their understanding of mathematical concepts. 

These tools can include counters, number lines, geometric shapes, calculators, graphing software, rulers, protractors, and even everyday objects like beans or blocks for counting.

Selecting and using tools in mathematics helps students to:

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March 2025 - Representing

When we talk about representing in math, we mean using different tools and methods to understand and communicate mathematical concepts. Here are some ways students represent math:

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February 2025 - Communicating

COMMUNICATING

Communicating in math is about how students share their ideas, understandings, and solutions with others. When students explain their ideas clearly and listen to others, they understand better and think more deeply about math.

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January 2025 - Connections

Connecting involves seeing how different math ideas are linked, like building blocks, and how they relate to the world around them. 

Students are engaged in connecting when they:

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December 2024 - Reflecting

Reflecting

Reflecting happens when students go beyond just solving a problem and take time to think about the strategies they used and whether their solution makes sense.

Reflecting involves:

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November 2024 - Reasoning and Proving

When students learn math, they also learn how to think through and explain their ideas. This is called “reasoning and proving”. They use what they know about math to explain why they think their answer is right. They do this by showing proof or evidence. Mathematicians do something similar when they make “conjectures”. A conjecture is like a guess that you make when you don’t have all the information. Mathematicians test these guesses by looking for evidence. Then, they use this evidence to see whether their guess was right.

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