Mathology.ca Grades 7 and 8
Grades 7-8 teachers, we hear you! We understand that teaching Math at these grades comes with a unique set of challenges that include:
- Responding to culturally diverse classes
- Assessment: triangulation of data; observations, conversations & products
- Engagement: choice, flexibility
- Time: time to plan, make connections, get through curriculum
- Wide range of student math understanding
- Teacher capacity: new pedagogy, classroom management, increased expectations for assessment, new curriculum, equitable and responsive instruction, and wellness/SEL
What is Mathology?
Mathology is a flexible set of print and digital Math resources designed specifically to support you and your students with this unique set of challenges. Mathology:
- Inspires Positive Math Stories: Through engaging math lessons and activities that give students choice and voice.
- Saves Teacher Planning Time: Through Mathology.ca, our on-line teacher hub containing curriculum-focused lessons and modifiable year plans to ensure manageable curriculum coverage.
- Helps You Know Your Students Better: Through readiness tasks and drag-and-drop assessment tools to help you observe, have meaningful conversations with and evaluate products from your students.
What are the Features of Mathology.ca Grades 7 and 8?
Mathology.ca
Mathology.ca is your on-line Teacher Hub filled with engaging Math lessons that are carefully curated to support your provincial curriculum. Mathology.ca helps you:
- Find and deliver engaging math lessons.
- Differentiate your instruction through explicit next steps that support student growth.
- Save planning time through built-in year plans that you can modify.
- Discover student readiness for new Math concepts through quick and easy-to-deliver readiness tasks.
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A Sneak Peek at Key Features in Mathology.ca
Readiness Tasks
- Readiness tasks provide you with a snapshot of your students’ understanding of specific math concepts.
- There are approximately 15–20 tasks per grade that reflect big ideas from the previous grade.
- Each task includes a maximum of 4 questions that takes approximately 30-45 minutes for students to complete.
- Tasks are modifiable so you can choose to assign only some questions or modify them to best suit your students.
- An answer key provides a sample solution for each question
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Mathology Next Step Lessons
After you have discovered your students’ readiness for new Math concepts, you are linked to lessons that support your next steps. Your next steps include:
- Lessons that are engaging, visual, shareable and differentiated.
- Interactive Tools at point of use to bring lessons to life.
- Easy-to-Use-Drag and Drop Assessment Tool supports formative assessment.
- Next Step Lesson Ideas that help you differentiate your instruction and support student growth.
- Pre-built, modifiable and share-able PowerPoint lesson prompts
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