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MATH + CODING, 1-8

SELF-SERVE WORKSHOPS

Designed to serve as a base lesson plan — a set of activities to select from and adapt — for diverse learning settings (f2f, hybrid, online, parents/children).

  • Grades 1-2: geometric/motion patterns & rules; sequential & concurrent events
  • Grades 3-4: shapes, angles, repeating patterns, variables; repeating & nested events
  • Grades 5-6: algebraic expressions, inequalities; conditional statements
  • Grades 7-8: linear/non-linear relationships; sub-programs, code efficiency, data analysis

OTHER WORKSHOPS, gr. 1-8

Professional learning workshops. Hands-on, online. Contact: ggadanid@uwo.ca

MATH + MAKING, 1-8

Professional learning workshops, from the Ontario Tech U Maker lab. Contact: laura.morrison1@ontariotechu.net

MORE SUPPORT

  1. GENERAL SUPPORT
    1. 1. Lessons learned from classrooms
    1. 2. Five As for coding & math
    2. 3. OMCA presentation
  4. MATH + CODING SUPPORT
    1. 4. Repeating patterns
    1. 5. Odd & even number patterns
    2. 6. Infinity & fractions
    3. 7. Inequalities
    4. 8. Making 10
    5. 9. Coding in the Ontario 1-8 Math Curriculum

1. LESSONS LEARNED FROM CLASSROOMS

by George Gadanidis

2. FIVE As FOR CODING & MATH

The affordances of modelling math with code (6 min.) by George Gadanidis

3. REPEATING PATTERNS

From the table of contents, Algebra + Coding, 1-8

Computational Modelling in Elementary Mathematics Education – Making Sense of Coding in Elementary Classrooms (May 2018). Read the White Paper by MKN Computational Modelling CoP members, George Gadanidis (Western University) and Beverly Caswell (Robertson Program, OISE/UT).

See videos of lesson studies in Grades 1-3 classrooms on this theme, from the Ontario Math Knowledge Network.

4. ODD & EVEN NUMBER PATTERNS

Module Lessons

From the table of contents, Algebra + Coding, 1-8

Where do even numbers hide?

Math worth talking about

A song based on teacher comments as they learned about odds and evens

Odds & evens poster

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5. INFINITY & FRACTIONS

About this module by George Gadanidis (3 min.)

Module Lessons

From the table of contents, Algebra + Coding, 1-8

You can hold infinity in your hand!

Infinity at the AI Academy

See a series of animations, and other videos on infinity at learnx.ca/wonder/infinity

Math Shadow [parody of Moon Shadow]

Infinity poster

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6. INEQUALITIES

Module Lessons

From the table of contents, Algebra + Coding, 1-8

About this module by George Gadanidis (4.5 min.)

7. MAKING 10

See also this Making 10 presentation.

Module Lessons

From the table of contents, Algebra + Coding, 1-8

Random pairs line up?

Making 10 poster

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See the story The Pleasure of Making 10 at https://learnx.ca/wonder/rene-descartes/, featuring Rene Descartes, who said “I think, therefore I am”.

Did Rene Descartes really exist?

Or was he a figment of his own imagination?

8. CODING IN THE ONTARIO 1-8 MATH CURRICULUM

VIDEO TOPICS

    1. GRADE 1 – sequential events (0:43)
    2. GRADE 2 – sequential and concurrent events (1:36)
    3. GRADE 3 – sequential, concurrent and repeating events (2:52)
    4. GRADE 4 – sequential, concurrent, repeating and nested events (3:41)
    5. GRADE 5 – conditional statements and other control structures (4:40)
    6. GRADE 6 – efficient code (5:49)
    7. GRADE 7 – defined count and/or subprogram and other control structures (7:08)
    8. GRADE 8 – analysis of data (9:30)