Our goal for our young learners is that they will become numerically literate and be able to use their sense of number to apply it to the world around them effectively and efficiently.
Building Early Number Sense
To explore our collective wonderings around How do we structure our math communities so that we can meet the differing needs of our students? and How can we have an impact on our students' sense of number? a large group of primary teachers in HPCDSB has chosen to use "Number Sense Routines: Building Numerical Literacy Everyday in K - 3" by Jessica Shumway (2011) to deepen our own professional understanding of the development of number sense in our learners. In addition, we hope to build our familiarity with activities to strengthen and build a strong sense of number in our students, to connect the activities back to the Ontario Mathematics Curriculum, and to bridge our experience with the activities with our knowledge of our students to deepen our understanding of which activities and structures with meet the needs of our classrooms with varied needs.
The responsive routines that we are exploring are visual routines, counting routines, and routines that play with quantity.
The responsive routines that we are exploring are visual routines, counting routines, and routines that play with quantity.