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		<title>One More/One Less (#4 Young Learners Series)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2020 23:48:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Understanding numbers requires some understanding of number relationships. For little people, there are several relationships that can be explored that will lead to a richer understanding of the number system. &#160; Today we will talk about the “one more/one less” relationship which can later be extended to the “two more/two less” relationship. &#160; The relationship [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Patterns Everywhere! (#3 young learners series)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2020 23:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Finding and making patters is a fabulous math activity to do with your young children. Patterning is tied to the study of mathematics in a number of ways: Patterns regularly occur in mathematics. Patterns can be recognized, extended, and generalized. The same pattern can be found/created in many different forms. Patterns can occur in the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Other Kinds of Counting (#2 young learners series)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2020 01:54:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In the previous blog post I talked about the most fundamental ideas about counting and how we can help children develop cardinality. Until children have grasped this understanding, there is nothing else to be learned in mathematics. Nothing. They need to know the names of numbers, the order they come in, and that the last [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Counting: the Beginning of all Mathematics (#1 young learners series)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2020 21:53:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I am inspired to begin a series of posts about math for younger children. For each topic we will discuss it on several levels, so wherever your child is on the math journey, hopefully there will be some ideas for you to engage with him or her. &#160; It is important here to recognize that [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>SD#71 Workshop</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Aug 2019 22:34:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I am excited for the opportunity tomorrow to present a primary math workshop here in the Comox Valley. This is the perfect time for professional development for teachers as the new school year is about to begin. We will be looking at four important number relationships that we should help young children develop. One of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Lost in Translation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Sep 2017 22:17:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What is a student really saying when he or she says, &#8220;I hate math!&#8221;? To hear someone make the statement, &#8220;I hate math!&#8221; is, unfortunately, not uncommon. In fact, it is not restricted just to students, but parents, neighbours, and, yes, even educational colleagues say this, too. But what are people really saying with that [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Calgary City Teachers&#8217; Convention 2017 Power Up your Problem Solving</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2017 02:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[One of the best ways to begin improving problem solving in your math class is simply this: Just do it! Of course. you can learn some techniques for making that problem solving time more of a success than it would otherwise be. You can teach students some strategies for thinking, and help them to use [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Calgary City Teachers&#8217; Convention 2017 Big Ideas for Little People&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2017 02:39:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We will be talking about number relationships at this session of the convention tomorrow. Once early learners know their numbers in order, have one-to-one correspondence for counting, and understand that the last number in the counting sequence names the set they are ready to develop some number relationships that will serve as a basis for [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Beginnings&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Sep 2016 17:45:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[School has just begun for a new year here in British Columbia, and the question for all teachers is this: Do you know where your students are? (I confess this particular way of wording the question comes from a public service commercial from many years ago. It went, &#8220;It is eleven o&#8217;clock. Do you know [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>&#8220;Why am I doing this?&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2016 01:51:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It is nearly the beginning of the school year here in BC, Canada. New beginnings are always special with untold opportunities and challenges before us. As a teacher, educational assistant, or parent who is home schooling a child, it is important to keep one question at the forefront and ask it of yourself daily: &#8220;Why [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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