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Winter Math!

Winter Math

Winter break is right around the corner! This is a great opportunity to take time with your child and connect math to the real world. Below are some ideas that will help get you started:

• Grocery shopping can involve money, budgeting, estimating, adding, subtracting, and measuring
• Cooking can involve weighing, measuring, ordering, estimating, adding, and multiplying
• Organizing for a party can mean matching numbers of people to plates, cutlery, area of tables, ordering food, and seating arrangements
• Going on a trip by car or plane involves time, distance, budgeting, speed, comparing various routes, and shape scavenger hunts
• Completing a half finished symmetrical design using playdough (e.g., half a butterfly, tree)
• Building a snowman can involve measuring, spatial reasoning, and estimating

These ideas will help your child see the importance of math in their everyday lives through fun and interactive ways.

http://www.edugains.ca/newsite/math/schoolleader/ideas_for_school_leaders.html

The Ontario Ministry of Education recently released information for families about Focusing on the Fundamentals of Math.  You can access this information at https://math.thelearningexchange.ca/training/provincial-math-training-learning-modules/parents2/

To find out what your child will learn in math this year or to find other fun activities that you can do together as a family, please visit http://www.yrdsb.ca/Programs/Math/Pages/default.aspx.  Be sure to also try our Problem of the Month

Chanukah Greetings

To all those celebrating Chanukah, we would like to wish you and your families a very happy celebration.

December 6th is Movie Night!

Mathematica Prep Session

Based on the positive feedback from last year, we are pleased to bring back an optional lunch time program, for students in Grades 4 to 8, to help them prepare for the upcoming Mathematica contest which will be held on Wednesday, April 17, 2019.

Ketan Padalia is a parent volunteer who will continue to be guiding students through preparatory tests that will challenge their problem solving skills and help them become comfortable with the possible questions that will be asked.

This program will be held once a week, during lunch time. If your child is registered for the Mathematica contest and would like to participate in this optional program, please indicate your interest by Friday, December 21, 2018 by filling out the digital form found at: https://goo.gl/forms/ZvOWUjfi5weVHmRb2. More information will follow.

If you have any questions, please contact Ms. Wong (tubie.wong@yrdsb.ca).

Cookie Dough Pick Up

Cookie dough will be available for pick up on Thursday, November 22nd in the gym starting at 5 pm.

Don't Forget About Our Book Swap!