Next Monday, the Canadian Mathematical Society will be receiving Dr. Pamela Brittain within the cadre of CMS Fundraising Webinar Series. Dr. Brittain will present a overview of the past 150 years in Ontario math curriculum.

When: Monday, April 12, 2021 at 1:00pm
Where: Register here to receive the Zoom link.

Abstract: Mathematics in education has had its purpose questioned, its method of instruction debated, and its effectiveness tested in many different ways. In fact it may be one of the most hotly debated subjects in schools. In this talk we take a look at the past 150 years in Ontario math curriculum and investigate some of the thoughts, ideas, reports, and proposals that have brought us to where we are now in our math curriculum. While it by no means captures all the debates and changes from the past 150 years, I hope to give a general overview of some of the discussions that have taken place around this subject so that we may better understand where we are now, and gain a glimpse of an idea of where we could go in future.

The Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS) has a new initiative for Black and Indigenous students. Within the context of this initiative we offer a free webinars to students and educators. link ...

The mathies project lives!
The Ministry of Education has just signed a development deal with AFEMO and OAME to produce an HTML 5 version of mathies Colour Tiles, Money and Fraction Strips apps by early in the next school year (Fall 2021). This is very exciting news for all!

In the meantime ... Flash is dead (in a browser)! But, long live mathies apps (elsewhere)!

The Medium Version: YES - you can still access mathies learning tools,
especially on mobile devices, but also on some computers.

The Long Version (click here for more details!) link ...

This is the last of three bonus episodes with some of the featured and keynote speakers from the OAME2021 virtual conference in May. In the previous two episodes we heard a little about each of them and a brief preview of each of their sessions. On this episode we asked them to talk about what they thought was working well with online learning. We'll hear from Robert Q. Berry, Kyle Pearce, Chris Suurtamm, Gail Burrill, Marian Small, Graham Fletcher, Lisa Lunney Borden, Ron Lancaster, Dan Meyer and Jon Orr. More info about the conference can be found at oame2021.ca.
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Coding Webinars - open for registration!
Registration is now open for the Webinars based on the Lesson and Assessment plans focussed on Coding. The series will start with a Webinar whose focus is Coding in the Primary Grades, which premiered on Thursday February 11th. After the Primary webinars are done, they will be followed by a webinar on Coding in the Junior Grades, and finally Coding in the Intermediate Grades. Register on the Webinars page.

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Check this out:

• * NEW *
  Sample long range plans that outline possible sequences of instruction are now available.
  
  • English - long range plans
  • Français - planifications à long-terme
  
   
• Document released: Key Changes - Ontario Mathematics Curriculum, Grades 1 to 8
   
• Document released: High-Impact Instructional Practices in Mathematics
   
• Elementary Curriculum website : https://www.dcp.edu.gov.on.ca/en/curriculum/elementary-mathematics

In response to the current COVID-19 outbreak, OAME/AOEM wants to remind members that there are many supports available for teachers and students to assist with online learning that are available on the OAME/AOEM website. Free to all (members and non-members) are resources such as:

• Mathies (https://www.mathies.ca/) - These online tools provide students and teachers games, activities, learning supports and other links to assist with learning at home. Note that many of these are also available in French.
• Grade Specific Resources (https://oame.on.ca/main/index.php?code=grspecres) - Many resources from K-12 that include activities (many from the TIPS4RM lessons) as well as financial literacy resources. NOTE: This now includes resources that were originally in the Members Only section.
• Math4theNines (http://www.math4thenines.ca/resources.html) - These resources were specifically designed for Grade 9. Great tasks for your students and research for you to dive into.

In addition to the resources noted above, members have access to all of the member resources (once you log in). These include some of the grade specific resources that are not posted publicly for Grade 10 and Grade 12 as well as all webinar recordings from the last two seasons of OAMEtalks and recordings of the featured speakers from OAME 2019.

We would also like to remind you of resources that have been made available to all students and teachers in the province such as:

• The Ministry of Education has made available online learning supports for elementary students (https://www.ontario.ca/page/learn-at-home#section-0) and secondary students (TVO has support available to students in Grades K-6 through mPower (https://mpower.tvo.org/#/login/) and for students in Grades 6-10 through Mathify (href=https://www.tvomathify.com/students). Note that students will need to create an account to access these supports.
• OAME is an affiliate of NCTM and NCTM has many free resources available to teachers to support them through online learning. There are webinars, problems and interactives available at https://www.nctm.org/freeresources/.
• CEMC out of the University of Waterloo also has a variety of resources to support teachers and students . Resources range from problems and online courseware to computer science tutorials. Check out everything available at https://cemc.uwaterloo.ca/news/coronavirus.html.
• ChatterPack has a list of free, online, boredom-busting resources https://chatterpack.net/blogs/blog/list-of-online-resources-for-anyone-who-is-isolated-at-home?fbclid=IwAR1aDg3N2n6hYlqJ3h-oADUhfpyAMF4R7e2fOhnJDv1N8ljcujSUpWzFuRI

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