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A brief history and description of the 4-colour theorem and its proof.
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AUTHOR(S): Chris Fisher
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In this resource John explains how he used the “grains of wheat on a checkerboard” activity in a grade 4 classroom.
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AUTHOR(S): John Hurgeton
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Aboriginal Perspectives is a companion web site to Math Central. It is part of Mathematics with a Human Face. The purpose is to create and make available lesson ideas for teachers, constructed around video clips with an Aboriginal focus. The site is under construction and in its infancy but the intent is that the number of video clips will increase and the lessons will span all areas of the curriculum.
Proceed to Aboriginal Perspectives.
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AUTHOR(S): Faculty and Students at the University of Regina
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Karen designed this website to assist teachers and pre-service teachers in the area of mathematics from Kindergarten to Grade 12 . Here you will find a multitude of teacher resources to assist you in incorporating Aboriginal content in your mathematics program.
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AUTHOR(S): Karen Arnason
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This is one of a collection of teaching activities on Statistics Canada's Web site. This activity shows students that the answers to the census become useful in decision making when they are totalled and associated with geographic areas. Students will engage in activities centred on using a neighbourbood map, summarizing data about persons in households, and making decisions based on the results of their calculations (2 class periods). This is a pdf document and Acrobat Reader is required to view it.
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AUTHOR(S): Statistics Canada
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This is one of a collection of teaching activities on Statistics Canada's Web site. This activity introduces students to an overview of the Census of Agriculture. It helps them understand why a record of Canada's most important primary industry is needed every five years. Students will begin to form values about the place of agriculyure in today's society (1-2 class periods). This is a pdf document and Acrobat Reader is required to view it.
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AUTHOR(S): Statistics Canada
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This is an article in the eighth edition of Ideas and Resources for Teachers of Mathematics, a newsletter published by the Saskatchewan Mathematics Teachers' Society. The topic of the eighth edition of the newsletter is "Real World Problem Solving". This article is an interview by a primary grade student with an airline pilot.
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AUTHOR(S): Dean Goranson
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The atlatl and dart, the predecessor to the bow and arrow, was very important in the lives of Aboriginals in Saskatchewan and all over the world up until about 2000 years ago. Experiment based lessons allow students to learn about the science behind the weapon system that put humans on top of the food chain. Subject integrated lessons for grades 4-12 in the areas of math, science and social studies based on Saskatchewan curriculum objectives.
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AUTHOR(S): Janice Cotcher
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This is an article in the sixth edition of Ideas and Resources for Teachers of Mathematics, a newsletter published by the Saskatchewan Mathematics Teachers' Society. The topic of the fifth edition of the newsletter is geometry. In this article Jill describes a geometric activity which she undertook on an interactive math night with her grade three students and their parents, and the enthusiasm shown by the students that night and the next day.
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AUTHOR(S): Jill Britton
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This is one of a collection of teaching activities on Statistics Canada's Web site. Using the 'Canadians' reading habits' table, students answer a series of questions on the components of a table before describing the relationship between rows and columns. The class produces a tally chart of their reading behaviours and calculates the percentages. Students apply the results to one of four scenarios.
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AUTHOR(S): Statistics Canada
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Predict your adult height using today’s height. This is one of a series of lessons using Census at School data.
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AUTHOR(S): CensusAtSchool – U.K
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Have fun discovering your age in different units of time: minutes, days, months…This is one of a series of lessons using Census at School data.
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AUTHOR(S): CensusAtSchool – U.K.
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This is one of a collection of teaching activities on Statistics Canada's Web site.
The question "What is life like for us?" lies at the heart of statistics. Since the beginning of time, people have kept records in the form of pictures, words and numbers in order to tell others how they live and what is important to them. Counting Canadians gives your students the chance to explore statistics in three ways, by using Statistics Canada's historical data, by using Statistics Canada's E-STAT site and by collecting their own data
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AUTHOR(S): Statistics Canada
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This is one of the articles in the fifth edition of Ideas and Resources for Teachers of Mathematics, a newsletter published by the Saskatchewan Mathematics Teachers' Society. The topic of the fifth edition of the newsletter is data management and in this article Lillian describes some of the data management undertakings produced, analyzed and interpreted in her grade one class.
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AUTHOR(S): Lillian Forsythe
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This is one of the articles in the fifth edition of Ideas and Resources for Teachers of Mathematics, a newsletter published by the Saskatchewan Mathematics Teachers' Society. The topic of the fifth edition of the newsletter is data management and in this article Angela describes two activities she did with her grade five class. In the first students used a circle graph to display how they spent a 24 hour day and in the second they discussed possible outcomes and probabilities from rolling a die, using game Math Quest.
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AUTHOR(S): Angela Harding
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