Leading Math Success

• Targeted Implementation and Planning Supports for Revised Mathematics (TIPS4RM)
• TIPS for English Language Learners in Mathematics
• Connecting Practice and Research in Mathematics Education (CPR-M)
• Assessment
• My Professional Practice
• Professional Learning for Teachers
• Principal's and Administrator's Resources
• Technologies as Learning Tools
• Family and Community Connections
• Professional References
• TIPS
• Notable Strategies
• Impact Math

Targeted Implementation and Planning Supports for Revised Mathematics (TIPS4RM)

This comprehensive resource offers ways of thinking about mathematics education, connects to current research, and includes grade-level support materials for those working with students in Grades 7 to 10.

• Developing Mathematical Literacy (PDF, 1.1 MB)
  Describes a vision for the mathematical literacy of all students, supported by current research and theory.
• Mathematical Processes (PDF, 288 KB)
  Focuses on the seven mathematical processes that are central to empowering students to do mathematics, with suggestions for learning and instructional strategies, questions, and feedback.
• Mathematical Processes: Posters
• Mathematical Processes (PDF, 152 KB)
• Connecting (PDF, 136 KB)
• Reason and Proving (PDF, 128 KB)
• Reflecting (PDF, 116 KB)
• Representing (PDF, 132 KB)
• Tools and Computational Strategies (PDF, 136 KB)
• Mathematical Processes: Sample Adjusted Lessons for Grades 7-10
  
  • Grade 7 (Word, 1.15 MB | PDF, 376 KB)
  • Grade 8 (Word, 2.7 MB | PDF, 532 KB)
  • Grade 9 Applied (Word, 1.75 MB | PDF, 693 KB)
  • Grade 10 Applied (Word, 1.62 MB | PDF, 914 KB)
• Mathematical Processes: Professional Learning Series
  
  • Professional Learning Series (Word, 364 KB | PDF, 144 KB)
• Continuum and Connections
  Content-based packages that: position significant mathematical themes in a larger context; include problems with solutions connected to the Mathematical Processes; make connections across the grades for linking with other strands, with instruction, and with the problems.
  • Fractions (PDF, 675 KB)
  • Integers (PDF, 810 KB)
  • Patterning to Algebraic Modelling (PDF, 646 KB)
  • Perimeter, Area, and Volume (PDF, 1.4 MB)
  • Proportional Reasoning (PDF, 3.14 MB)
  • Solving Equations and Using Variables as Placeholders (PDF, 1.5 MB)
• Lesson Outlines, Student Activities
• Grade 7
• Combined Grades 7 and 8
• Grade 8
• Grade 9 Applied
• Grade 10 Applied
• MHF4U
• MDM4U
• MCV4U

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TIPS for English Language Learners in Mathematics

This resource connects to current research, and includes grade-level support materials for those working with English language learners in Grades 7 to 10.

• Developing Mathematical Literacy for ALL
• Grade 7, (PDF 299 KB | Word 1.7 MB)
• Grade 8, (PDF 1.7 MB | Word 2.5 MB)
• Grade 9 Applied, (PDF 303 KB | Word 971 KB)
• Grade 10 Applied, (PDF 1.3 MB | Word 2.4 KB)

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Connecting Practice and Research in Mathematics Education(CPR-M)

CIIM (Curriculum Implementation Intermediate Math) Report

• Research Report (PDF, 784 KB)
• Research Report Executive Summary (PDF, 452 KB)

Differentiating Instruction

Examining Questioning Practice in Grade 8 Mathematics Classrooms

Programming Remediation and Intervention for Students in Mathematics (PRISM)

• PRISM Pre-pilot: Ottawa Carlton CDSB
• Overview (PDF, 32 KB)
• Executive Summary (PDF, 27 KB)
• Qualitative Report (PDF, 902 KB)
• Quantitative Report (PDF, 1.5 MB)
• PRISM KPR: Kawartha Pine Ridge DSB
• Overview (PDF, 31 KB)
• Executive Summary (PDF, 21 KB)
• Report (PDF, 365 KB)
• PRISM NEO: North Eastern Ontario
• Overview (PDF, 32 KB)
• Executive Summary (PDF, 30 KB)
• Report (PDF, 245 KB)
• PRISM NWO: North Western Ontario
• Overview(PDF, 31 KB)
• Executive Summary (PDF, 21 KB)
• Report (PDF, 182 KB)
• PRISM Tri-Board: Brant Haldimand Norfolk CDSB, Halton CDSB, Hamilton Wentworth CDSB
• Overview (PDF, 32 KB)
• Executive Summary (PDF, 35KB)
• Report (PDF, 225 KB)
• Research Instruments (PDF, 492 KB)

Research Synopses

• Supports for Instructional Planning and Decision Making (PDF, 456 KB)

Assessment

Outlines of summative instruction with authentic assessment tasks illustrate how teachers might assess student achievement of key skills and concepts.

• Summative Tasks Grade 7, (PDF 3.1 MB | Word 1.7 MB)
• Summative Tasks Grade 8, (PDF 1.9 MB | Word 1.0 MB)
• Summative Tasks Grade 9 Applied, (PDF 1.2 MB | Word 791 KB)
• Summative Tasks Grade 10 Applied, (PDF 1.6 MB | Word 770 KB)

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My Professional Practice

This section of the library offers resources that teachers can quickly use to support their mathematics program.

Instructional Supports

These resources provide explicit support for planning and delivering various components of effective lessons and programs

• Formula Sheet (PDF, 142 KB)
• Elastic Metre Manipulative, Grade 9 Applied (Windows Media, Streaming)
• Multiple Representations – Pattern Building (PDF, 70 KB)
• Ways to Determine a Square (PDF, 79 KB)
• Ways to Determine the Area of a Square on the Diagonal (PDF, 131 KB)
• Pythagorean Theorem (Windows Media, Streaming)
• Representing and Investigating Mean and Median (Windows Media, Streaming)
• Transformations, Translations, Reflections and Rotation (Windows Media, Streaming)
• Adjusted Lesson - Grade 9 Applied
• Video (Windows Media, Streaming)
• Adjusted Lesson Unit 4: Day 1 (PDF, 313)
• GSP file
• Using a Variety of Tools and Strategies: Key Messages (Windows Media, Streaming)
• Using a Variety of Tools and Strategies: Area Model (Windows Media, Streaming)
• Using a Variety of Tools and Strategies: Balancing Equations (Windows Media, Streaming)
• Using a Variety of Tools and Strategies: Colour Tiles (Windows Media, Streaming)
• Using a Variety of Tools and Strategies: Relational Rods (Windows Media, Streaming)
• Simplifying Algebraic Expressions Using Algebra Tiles (Windows Media, Streaming)
• Using a Variety of Tools and Strategies: The Zero Principle (Windows Media, Streaming)

Reference

• Fermi Problems (PDF, 282 KB)
• Manipulatives Management (PDF, 30 KB)

Tools

• Learning Skills Recording Sheets (PDF, 1.6 MB)
• Social Skills Anchor Charts (PDF, 350 KB)
• Journal Writing Prompts (PDF, 871 KB)

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Professional Learning for Teachers

Planning Your Mathematics Program, 2005-06

• Grade 7 (Flash, 20:08)
• Grade 8 (Flash, 18:43)
• Grade 9 Academic (Flash, 17:37)
• Grade 9 Applied (Flash, 19:25)
• Grade 10 Academic (Flash, 15:10)
• Grade 10 Applied (Flash, 17:44)

Planning Guides

• Grade 7 (PDF, 140 KB)
• Grade 8 (PDF, 171 KB)
• Grade 9 Academic (PDF, 131 KB)
• Grade 9 Applied (PDF, 139 KB)
• Grade 10 Academic (PDF, 154 KB)
• Grade 10 Applied (PDF, 179 KB)
• Grade 11: Functions, University Preparation (PDF, 88 KB)
• Grade 11: Functions and Applications, University/College Preparation (PDF, 84 KB)
• Grade 11: Foundations for College Mathematics, College Preparation (PDF, 75 KB)
• Grade 11: Mathematics for Work and Everyday Life, Workplace Preparation (PDF, 62 KB)



• Making Connections (PowerPoint, 2 MB)
• Moving Away From... Moving Towards... (PowerPoint, 393 KB)

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Professional Learning Guides

• The Adolescent Learner (PDF, 767 KB)
• Classroom Management (PDF, 405 KB)
• Differentiated Instruction (PDF, 406 KB)
• Flexible Groupings (PDF, 398 KB)
• Graphic Organizers (PDF, 405 KB)
• Manipulatives (PDF, 397 KB)
• Math Talk Learning Community (PDF, 434 KB)
• Providing Feedback (PDF, 394 KB)
• Questioning (PDF, 396 KB)
• Scaffolding (PDF, 395 KB)
• Student-Centred Investigations (PDF, 412 KB)
• Teacher-Directed Instruction (PDF, 427 KB)

Principal's and Administrator's Resources

• Guide for Administrators and Other Facilitators of Teachers' Learning for Mathematics Instruction (PDF, 48 KB)
• Program Planning for 2005-06 (Flash, 8:09)
• Professional Learning Facilitator's Guide (PDF, 168 KB)

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Technologies as Learning Tools

• Grade 7 GSP® Sketches
• Grade 8 GSP® Sketches
• Grade 9 GSP® Sketches
• Grade 11 GSP® Sketches
• Grade 12 GSP®, Fathom®, Winplot Sketches and Powerpoint® Demonstrations

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Family and Community Connections

• Family and Community Presentations (Word, 1.3 MB)
• Yes, I Can Help My Child (PowerPoint, 994 KB)
• Manipulatives and Technology (PowerPoint, 901 KB)
• Why Has Mathematics Instruction Changed? (PowerPoint, 889 KB)
• Family and Community Supports Workshop, (PowerPoint 951 KB | Word 34 KB)

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Professional References

• A web of Connections: Why the Read/Write Changes Everything (Will Richardson)
• Segment 1 (Windows Media, Streaming)
• Segment 2 (Windows Media, Streaming)
• Segment 3 (Windows Media, Streaming)
• Segment 4 (Windows Media, Streaming)
• Segment 5 (Windows Media, Streaming)
• Segment 6 (Windows Media, Streaming)


• About Brent Davis (PDF, 7 KB)
• Complexity Theory in Mathematics Education (Windows Media, Streaming)
• Leading Math Success: Mathematical Literacy, Grades 7-12 – The Report of the Expert Panel on Students Success in Ontario
• Mathematics Educational Research (Part 1) (Windows Media, Streaming)
• Mathematics Educational Research (Part 2) (Windows Media, Streaming)
• Sharing What Works: Dynamic Visualizations in Mathematics (Nick Jackiw) (Windows Media, Streaming)
• Sharing What Works: Valuing and Knowing Mathematics (Dr. Ann Kajander) (Windows Media, Streaming)
• Sharing What Works: Inching Forward on the Pedagogical Highway (Dr. Marian Small) (Windows Media, Streaming)
• Sharing What Works: Learning Mathematics for Teaching (Kathy Kubota-Zarivnij) (Windows Media, Streaming)

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TIPS

• TIPS: Targeted Implementation & Planning Supports

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Notable Strategies

• Notable Strategies: Closing the Gap

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Impact Math

• Impact Math

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