Talk 30: Heather Theijsmeijer and Richard Duffy

As young learners, children spend years developing sense of number as well as the ability to count efficiently, as a foundation for higher operations. However when we introduce students to integers, we often jump right into operations without laying that same solid foundation with students' sense of negative numbers. This results in students often confusing the "rules" for adding and subtracting integers throughout the intermediate grades, and without the ability to judge the reasonableness of their solutions. Join us as we restore the balance between using integer rules efficiently and being able to reason through problems using multiple representations, by looking at a new twist on time-honoured number sense activities. Appropriate for grade 6-10 teachers. Podcast Notes: Recorded December 2021 Heather is the Program Coordinator of 7-12 Mathematics with the Rainbow DSB and Tweets at @HTheijsmeijer. Richard is the Literacy and Numeracy Coordinator at the Rainbow DSB and Tweets at @DuffyRichard73. More info and to find out how to register for Heather and Richard’s webinar on Jan. 12th, 2022, can be found at https://talks.oame.on.ca/season-4