Monthly Archives: February 2012

Today’s problem has been posted on the Division page.  Check out our new strategy to do division.  We called it THE LEANING TOWER OF NUMBERS.

We will attempt to go sledding again tomorrow, so students should bring helmets to school. Also, if any students are interested in exploring PREZI (www.prezi.com) tonight, the user name is: michael.wendler@ocdsb.ca the password is: wendler

A new page has been added called Division.  It is attached to the Numeration page, under the Math tab.  Today’s problem has been posted there, and did the students ever come up with a wide variety of approaches (strategies) to … Continue reading →

Well, they wouldn’t let us use our cameras in the gallery, so I didn’t get very much footage  of the trip.  But, I put what little I had in a movie trailer found on the Class Videos site found on … Continue reading →

We had a great time on our field trip to the National Gallery of Canada today!

Today’s problem has been posted to the Multiplication page.  Were starting to solve some very complicated problems now, as we approach the end of the unit.  We should have a unit test on Friday.

Today’s problem has been posted on the Multiplication page (It was a doozy).

Happy Valentine’s Day! Tomorrow our class will be going outside for gym.  They can either go skating or sledding, as long as they have a helmet.

We learned about Napier’s Bones today.  A 17th century mathematician and astronomer, Napier was tired of doing all the long calculations associated with astronomy, so he created a new way of doing big multiplication calculations.  Ask your children to show you … Continue reading →

Today’s math problem and homework has been posted on the Multiplication page.