Introduction
can get started yeah so we've asked people to put their name where you're from what grade you're
currently teaching if you're brand new to mathology we are focusing on using mathology.ca virtually
today but we are available to answer other questions if you are using the print little books
or the or the print kits as well i believe most of us across canada
are currently virtual teaching and so that's why we decided to go this way
so let's take a look at using methodology resources virtually
Methodology Resources
and hopefully get you going with some tips and tricks and things that you
want to find to use for next week in your class it is friday so your goal today i'm going to
show you a lot of things if you're new we have lots of ongoing supports that you can go back to pieces when you're
ready but at the end of this webinar i'm going to ask you what is it that you found
that is going to be useful to you in the next week so that's that's really your goal to find one or two things that
you're going to be able to use next week and then the other pieces of mathology it will grow with you as you work
through it so in mathology you have access to mathology.ca
which gives you access to a variety of tools mathology also has print activity
kits that are available we're just not most of us are not using them right now and it has print math little books that
are also available right now but right now we're going to talk about the digital virtual tools that you can use
the projectable and downloadable multi-use cards we're going to talk about the lessons and the projectable
ways that you can use some of these beautiful visuals in a variety of
settings as well as all the the best pieces to use virtually for the digital math little
books so um those that are teaching grade four to six again there the lesson is set out
the same way you have the same virtual tools there are pieces of what we call
readiness tasks that are available from grade four to six that help you look at
a unit and help you think uh before you start where your students are at
again just like grade one to three there's a line masters that you can download modify and share and in grade
four to six there are each lesson comes with its own powerpoint that again you can download
and share with your students so we're going to take a very specific look today at how you can work through that same
learning cycle with your students of finding out what they know teaching them with the resources that are here
listening and watching for what you can on a screen to assess and track and then
provide those next steps whether that is whole group or small group and then keep track of things so today really is going
to be that practical aspect of looking through a lesson this looks really big
but what we put this here for is if you go back to the video and you just want to be
reminded of the pieces that might work best in a virtual world just look here and it will remind you of where to go
so we are going to take a look at um sorry we are going to take a look now at
Mathologycom
some of the things in mathology.ca and again i'm going to show you lots of
things but remember your goal is to um i'm just going to close up some
things that were just used so that we have some space here and we'll come back to some of these
things so excuse me just for one minute while i get rid of some of these things that we can do okay
i'm coming to you from ontario so i'm going to use my ontario account but when you log into your account or when you
log into a trial and if you're brand new to mathology we'll talk about at the end
how you can get a free 30-day trial so your time is not wasted here you can use
these materials for 30 days everything i'm showing you you can use for 30 days for free
so here we have our home page that you can search by a content word or you can
use the little list on the left to find anything that you want when you go to show all lessons that
brings you to the sorter that we may come back to over and over again
that you can sort by grade and strand and work through but the best way to find things is to
pull up a plan for your grade so grade four shows here if you want further you
can go further this is for kindergarten to grade six we're going to show a sample from grade
two and then in a bit we're going to show another sample from grade four
Sample Plan
when i click on a plan that plan will appear for me with everything i need for
my grade on the left hand side as you can see when i open up a folder
it gives me the full what we would call a unit it gives me a little book i might
want to do it gives me some of the activities along that unit and that idea in an
order that would be logical to teach it if you want to make this plan your own
you're just going to click this green button on the top called use sample plan and just follow there's two or three
steps again if you want to know more about the whole planning tool
Getting Started
i encourage you to go to the bulletin board here on the bottom
and you can click into getting started with grade one to three or four to six
we'll just use this example for now and then there's a variety of tutorials
it's three or four minutes that give you everything that you need to know about that planning tool
but today what we're trying to do is help you find really quickly things that you can use the next week
so maybe next week i am going to be doing uh something on number
relationships comparing ordering i'm just going to just take for an example i'm a grade 2
teacher and i'm going to be doing some work on comparing and ordering so i'm offered a
few little books that i might want to think about so let's first take a look at a little book and think about all the
Book
ways that you might want to use it because this is really fast i pulled up a plan i clicked on a little
book i have information about the content of that book and if i want to share that
with my students it's as simple as clicking if i've got a google classroom or a teams i just click and i can load
it right into my classroom or if i want i can just click on the link on the bottom
i can copy that url and share it with students when students click on that
link they come to exactly the page i'm here no login required for students they see
exactly what's here and now you have available to you
things that students can do independently or you can use this book in a variety of ways
on the screen with whole class work so let's just take a look at how they can use these books
independently first you have a read and listen function
so when they click is on um it's just
oh i'm going to go i'm going to go to the
what would you rather there we go
it's as simple as clicking it on and they have a little audio feature here that students can read to themselves if
there's any french immersion teachers that are here this looks exactly the same only in
french and it's read to them in french
Activity
they also again as simple as sharing that url they also have available to them i'm
just scrolling back and forth with the toggle that's there they have a try this activity
so they just click it on again this is um younger grades so they can just
listen to the um explanations here it's asking the student to compare the
groups is the number of counters on the left greater than less than or equal to the number of the counters on the right
click compare to chair to [Music] showing so once we compare
these ones are equal we can change the number of counters
and change the different ways that they're available anytime one of these little
games come up as a teacher you can just click on this question and a little
tutorial will come up to let you know how to use the whole um aspect of it so
it does take some time to possibly teach your students how to play the game where to click
what are the pieces that they need how to use the eraser things like that
but they're fairly simple and easy for students to take on fairly quickly
so again these are shared with the url students don't need to log in one of the questions we uh yep yeah can
i interrupt you two things here i'm just thinking about um the teacher parent
notes in the top right hand corner are also really easy to use
there we go and the other one is just for our bc attendees you may recognize the author
of this book in carol fullerton just a local thing
there we go yes so all the the little books were written for and by canadian
educators the other bc author we have is nadine mcfadden who
has written some of the indigenous focused books
okay so that is the little book that is one of the easiest things to use virtually
Google Jamboard
one way teachers are starting to use it is to use this in combination with another
another platform and one of the easiest ones is to use is google jamboard so if
you've used google jamboard before just type yes into the chat
and for those i'll show you how you can easily take information from here
and place it onto a google google jamboard and use it with your students
so i'm just going to go to a jamboard i've already set up
let's go here oops okay so uh basically what i did was i
uh uploaded a photo a snippet or a screenshot of one of the pages from what
would you rather i placed it here on this google
jamboard and this was an activity we did with educators asking them
which side would would grace gorilla want would they want the left side or would they like the right side
and some people gave different uh ideas but they were all many of them were
using uh math language like more
maybe the groups are less or more organized but it's just a way for
students to click on the note on the side add a sticky note with their information post it up on the
board and have conversations so this can be done as a whole class activity
it can be done with students articulating and the teacher typing into the chat it can be done by
if you've got 23 students copying pasting for 23 pages just go to the next
frame and paste it in and each student gets to say their reason why
or students put their name on their sticky so there's so many ways to use this jamboard to collaborate
and so what um some teachers would do is they might read much of the book kind of
on day one or have the students read it on their own time or listen to it and then they take one or two pages and
every day they just have a math conversation about the book
Linemasters
so that is just one way of using the math little books another way to use it is again it gives
ideas of questions you might want to have for conversations or if you want students to be doing some
more independent work there is some line masters that are here
one of the line masters i want to point out is the connecting home in school so typically that is meant for a
newsletter for home but let's take a look at some of the samples
and think about maybe it's something you want to do actually as a lesson
so it asks the student to gather up 100 objects it might be pasta it might be beans
and it asks them to do something with that amount
the other one 10 snap i'm just going to put it here you can quickly read it
again this can be done whole group small group uh however you want to do it but at least
the ideas are here for you when you're looking at a book many of the books
in the line masters the last line master often is a simple
worksheet of math problems that again you might want to download in word because you might want to use the idea
but you might want to change some of the the numbers for your students and that's another way you can
differentiate some students might be ready for two digit numbers in grade two others might still be only working with
numbers to twenty they can still use the same context but you can just change it
up as needed so as i move back to our uh
our unit here we've got our math little book that's there the one advantage of pulling up a plan
Virtual Tools
is even though in the math activities i'm going to show you there is virtual
tools suggested you can access them all in this very first folder
and these are great to share with your students so you may be
working on i'm just going to take
a number line for now and you can share this
tool with your students so you again just like the little book you copy the url and paste that into your virtual
school or however you share urls with your students and they come to exactly this page
no login on behalf of the student so the student can use this for practice
some teachers ask well how do they show their work well they might take a screen capture and send that back to you again
however you collect that information so students might be
looking and representing um
some of their work maybe you ask them to represent uh the total number
of acorns in the page that they chose with what would you rather
so they just make whatever size of number line they take their little bobble
and they move it forward for whatever oops for whatever [Music]
number i'm going to i'm just going to erase that
and i'm just going to start again so you see how easy it is
they just drag and drop maybe it was 80 i can't remember what the total was and the
students are representing their number there
so this math tool folder is found on the top of every grade sample plan and once
you click into it then you can share individual virtual tools with students
a couple of the popular ones are the money tray because it is canadian money and easy to
use and calculate with even young students as they
get going into grade three fraction strips tends to be very helpful
even in terms of grade two when they're comparing and contrasting different
sizes these tools tend to be fairly popular amongst our primary teachers
so we've taken a look at interactive tools we've taken a look at the math
little books let's go back to our number relationships unit and take a look at one of the activities
that's here so we're going to take a look at ordering quantities this is all
within one unit and i like it because i know that when i'm teaching i'm going to be doing this
activity ordering quantities probably before i get into estimating
with benchmarks they really need to know their quantities before they can
use those benchmarks efficiently so just like the little book it has information here for you in terms of
Planning
thinking about your planning it shows here in the content background what the students should be coming to to
be successful with this and then in the lesson is where i'm going to find everything i need
the lessons are always a three-part lesson format so those that have articulated that they're new
the lesson starts with a before with a what to do and then there's a consolidated
when we are teaching virtually some things need to be adapted so for
example in this activity the students are given
this card they're given sticky notes and they're given um some number cubes
and they're asked to roll
two number cubes to make a two two-digit number and write the numbers down
then it asks to compare the numbers write the lesser number on card one
write the greater number on to card two what would go on card three so if we were in the classroom they
would roll the dice they'd make a two-digit number put it on one sticky card a two-digit number put
it on another sticky card and now start ordering them and then find a find a
number that would be greater than that second card obviously we're not many of us are not
in class we're not with students how might i use this virtually
so i'm thinking again i'm going to use a jamboard and i'm going to use a digital
dice so i am just going to go to my jamboard
and find the one i was working on there we are just going to x this out
so here's my jam board again i uploaded it by setting the background this way
students can't delete it and i can make one for each student if i want to just copy and paste and do that
again for the amount of students or i might use this as a whole class so uh
i might say let's find a digital dice
so i am just going to go like this digital
i don't even spell it right we don't have a lot of time
when we're doing planning but i can certainly find uh random dice i don't know roller dice i maybe i've been here
before here we go so um i'm gonna roll two dice i'm gonna
roll the dice okay i get a three and an eight
so i'm gonna grab a sticky i'm gonna put 38 on one sticky
i'll go back to my dice let's roll again and again there's a variety of them you
may have a better one if someone's got a really good looking digital dice that you want to share in the chat
just pop it there otherwise it's just easy to find something and to click it and it rolls
so let's say i've got 35 in my second one
these are close first task is to
place the lesser one on the first place the greater one on the second
and make a number that is make a number that is greater than that
i might pick 56. so
i can be doing this as a whole class individual students might be doing it i might be doing it as a whole class and
asking the students to represent on their um on their digital tool we can see how if
students have the number line tool in front of them how they might represent these three numbers to show
that 56 is the largest we might start asking how much larger is
card two than card three and then this activity goes on to say okay roll the dice again this time
again they're going to be working with new numbers but let's just say they do that they ask them to put in these two
what is the lesser number and then the last activity is to roll the dice again get
two digit numbers and find out what number might go in the middle and why it goes in the middle so
for grade two students they may be able to do this really well but to articulate
why this number might go in the middle they're going to have to use some math language how much more how much less how
many tens how many things like that they can start comparing
so as we look at our lesson kim sorry i'm just going to interview for a sec could you go back to your jamboard
for a moment um how did you get the order me um card on that jamboard
okay i'll just do the whole cycle right here i took i'm going to just take a screenshot of
my picture here i'm going to go to my jamboard
let's i'm just going to get a new page here i'm going to go to set background
image i'm going to find it i just took it right
there it is
and there it is thank you awesome and then
um
and then again you know if i wanted to assign that to a student i would just uh
again do it again pull it up
so it might take me about six minutes five or six minutes to load them up
and assign a page number for a student if they want to share this jam board
with students it works just like the little books here's the url share the url and they come right in to this
jamboard if you're new to jamboard thanks kim that's awesome
so having students come in and share through a jam board having students
share their screen and represent with their virtual tools to articulate their
math learning are two great ways to bring about that visual aspect
really really easy without you having to look everywhere so in the lesson it does suggest a
couple of pieces here is the tool that's here as well
sometimes what i like doing is putting this on a jam board because when you take a snippet and put it on a jam
board you can you can annotate right so i can actually
do things here if i want a little bit messy but it still works or if it's a chart 100s
chart i can start circling numbers so this pen tool gives me some
flexibility in how i might use something so that's why sometimes i'll use the actual tool and put it into a jam chart
into a jam board
the other place when we're thinking of a lesson it does have some pdfs that are available in words so you
might want to share these digitally with students they might be tracking sheets that they
can keep track of their work that they're doing for the activity they might be
some other line master that might be helpful to you as well as
the other place if the lesson you look at the lesson you're like oh that's really hard to modify
click the differentiated support first before you give up on the lesson because many of the lessons will have
another lesson here here's another lesson that you can take a look at is this easier to modify for
virtual teaching even one of the intervention lessons you might want to use
and then it also has next steps in class that has some more ideas you might use
or next steps at home so let's take a look at this example
it says get play guess my number give clues using comparison words so for
example you might say i'm thinking of a word it says 29 to 40 but i might say i'm
thinking of a if i say such a short thing then kids will say is it 35 is it 34 is it 33 so
you might say hmm i'm thinking of a number between 29 and 79 then they start
being a little bit strategic so they might say is it greater than 50 because
i always say i can only answer yes or no it's a yes or no thing they may have some items at home
that has some price tags on it they might be able to pull some of those things out and order them according to
least to greatest greatest elise so these things were these things were all things were also already
supplies that you might want to use for your own lessons
and to keep track of what you're doing you can just open this up it'll open up in a pdf and
you can download that to your computer it says print but you can save anything that is printable in a pdf and use this
for your lesson to keep track of all your lessons so when you're looking at a lesson i
encourage you to look at the unit level where in the unit level you might be working
take a look at the lesson take a look at the what to do can i modify it
does it have a visual i might be able to use does it have some line masters that i
might be able to use and does it take a look at some differentiated
support in here that i might be able to use so for uh grade one to three
all the lessons work the same way let's take a look now at a grade for sample
so grade 4 to 6 works a little differently in that it's got some different resources that are a
little bit more independent for students to use
we're going to take a look at multiplication and division so if you are a teacher that has some
students in grade three to six you might want to start your unit with a readiness
task it is a really simple pen and paper but again you can download this in in
word and upload so if you're uploading word into google docs it just automatically
goes into a google doc and assign it to your students and then students can just quickly
answer these questions based on the previous year's expectations and give that back to you so you have a
sense of where they're going so if they're all ready to go you can start your grade four first lesson in
the unit if let's say a lot of the kids didn't do well on activity question
number four here's the grade three lesson that goes right to that concept so you don't even
have to know what the concept is that they were missing from grade three here's the lesson that goes with it and
you might want to do that lesson or things from that lesson for a day or two before you start the grade four lesson
once they're ready to start the grade four let's take a look so grade
four to six is organized a little differently it has the same three-part lesson
but instead of the virtual tool suggestion they are listed at the top and they are also sometimes listed in
the actual powerpoint so the visuals for grade four to six are always housed
in a powerpoint that you can share through google teams or google slides just as they are
once you download this uh powerpoint to your computer or you download it to your
teams or google classroom when students open it if there is a suggested virtual
tool sometimes there'll be a link or if there's a line master here's a mathmat7 and mathmat34
if there is a line master suggested they would just click this and it would download to their computer that line
master they may need to use it each lesson just like grade 1 to 3 has
that differentiated support and the information about next steps in
class and next steps at home for now are still just on this one page
currently they are being written so about six units in every grade have
these blue aspects what to look for probing questions
highlight next steps they are being added as we speak so if
you don't see them on the lesson just know that they are coming but again the next steps at home is a
great thing to use so even here it's talking about
using arrays and using things like beans cotton balls
so you can just use this idea as is
Practice Worksheet
from grade 3 and up there is also a practice worksheet that you might consider
assigning to students again each practice sheet you can download in word and change
any of the aspects of the lesson that you want any of the numbers if students
are if you need to differentiate that and so those practice pages are always
from grade three to grade six because that's when students are really
starting to work independently and then just like uh grade one to three
each of the lessons has an assessment master
that again you might want to download and use to take little notes on your students as they are working and then
come back at a later time into the assessment tool and
start to track some of your students
based on the minimal you might have heard or might have seen obviously when we're working virtually
we're not going to see in here as much but we may see and hear some things that we can track
and again if you want more information on the assessment tool you just go to
the bulletin board here and find the little video and it will show you all about the assessment tool and how the
analytic tool might work and show you that overall information
so we have taken a look at a sample plan how to find a little book
how to find a lesson manipulate some of the pieces thinking about four five six using some
of the powerpoints they're just already ready for you and when you're looking at the
powerpoint that's just the first powerpoint that is shown in the icon sometimes there's one powerpoint
sometimes there's two sometimes there's three so download them to see all the the pieces you might be able to
use some of the lessons from grade 3 to 6 have
a knowledge hook lesson and that knowledge hook is a digital aspect lesson
best way to find it patty reminded me yesterday is to just put knowledge hook in the search
i come to my search results that are here oop knowledge i didn't spell it right
there we go knowledge hook did i spell it right
nope i still didn't spell it right no
you have an extra e in there i think kim i do have an extra navy
i'll take a vowel for ten thousand yes no knowledge
no no null lead
no given h
okay just a minute let me go the other way let me go the other way
if i'm looking at a specific unit there we go
null no knowledge i thought i spelt it right um if i'm looking at a specific unit it has
the banner that's here it's a friday kim
i know i'm like okay i thought i spent it right i can just go back to the home right at the top here
okay and did i spell it right now i think so
Knowledge Hook
there we go okay so from grade three to six there are a few lessons in every grade so there's 18
in total and so i can just narrow it down maybe i'm grade four i can see that
these are the knowledge hook lessons that are available for me i click on the lesson and i'm going to
find it in the very last tab it probably takes you know 15-20 minutes
just to if you're not familiar with knowledge hook just to launch it and figure out how it works but basically your students
again you give your students a website to go to and a little code to put in and then they are ready to
digitally contribute some answers to some
questions or to they call them missions that you can
assign individually to students so we just show this up front there's not a lot of lessons that have it but if
you want to spend 15 or 20 minutes just clicking and finding out how to do
it there's just little eyes here you can just find out exactly how to do these uh
little things with your students and how they might participate with it so we show that at the end and it's free
so you just launch it you go through and it is all free and your students don't have to log in they just go to the
website and they start playing so it's a good thing to investigate for
some of those lessons if you want to work digitally with your students that way
so i am going to summarize some information but before i do that i am going to invite you to put
into the chat something that you found that oh yes i am going to use that next week and just
pop that into the chat
so with mathology.ca you do have access as you saw me i was just going around
the different grades from kindergarten to grade six and when you load up a plan and make it
your plan you have the ability to put in things from other grades and keep things all in your same place
so i do invite you to go to the bulletin board to take a look at the getting started
little videos if you're interested in correlations you might want to click this little button here in the middle
and take a look at those two but really everything you need is in mathology.ca
so patty are we getting some some ideas of what people are going to
use in the next week we got a good good idea from vanessa for
Free Trial
those who haven't tried it yet um you should try a free trial and give it a whirl this week and i put the the link
there to how to sign up for a 30-day free trial so thanks vanessa yeah it'll take you one or two minutes to
sign up for your 30-day trial and then you are in pull up your plan
from your grade and just start you're welcome and did you want me to cover these next slides kim
sure oh okay awesome um so our wrap-up is
i think kim already said these quite well but we did um inside your license
you actually have access to all grades from k to six um so you can
have as many different lessons as you as you need um it includes all 72 of the
math little books um those powerpoint slides for grades four to six um all those interactive tools um at your
disposal and um there's so much more we didn't show you today but we just really wanted to focus in on the things that
you might need over the next couple weeks so this is kind of like survival mathology so um so thanks for that um
highlighting those kim and if you're wondering about a license there's a one-year teacher license for 175 and again you have all
the materials from k-6 inside that license and we also have five-year licenses licenses for 665.
and we have a really engaged and engaging teacher community
on twitter so if you are a twitter right or twitterer um and you go into search just type in pearson mathology um our
our page will come up and you'll see that uh teachers are wonderful they're um almost daily sharing ideas on how they're using
mathology we're seeing a lot of really great ideas in the past week around virtual i think you see one of the virtual tools
on the right hand side there and one of the the inter the math little books on the left so
please do follow us for lots of ideas on how to use it virtually we'd appreciate it
and this is a chance um i have you all off mute if you wanted to ask any
questions that would be great and kim while we're opening up the florida questions did you want to just put up the last slide
um you have a local pearson person we have one in in every province and sometimes two and
if you have any questions beyond today um please reach out we'd be very uh happy to hear from you um you'll see all
the names there um and the other piece that you will receive an email from me um probably
monday or tuesday at this point um with a recording of today's webinar um it went pretty fast you might want to go
through it again and and see it um and so you'll be getting that in the next couple days as well so that's an
opportunity if you have questions you can poke me as well