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Banner text dislaying zero mathematics most mysterious number

Zero is a powerful number with a complex history and surprising significance in mathematics. Learn about how the brain interprets zero and the history of the number, along with ideas on how to start conversations about zero in the classroom.

Banner displaying Teaching Fractions through Baking

This three-part, hands-on lesson uses baking to teach students how to understand, compare, and work with fractions. Students measure ingredients, double and triple recipes to practice adding and multiplying fractions, and identify and compare fractions in their own recipes.

Online Playful Math: Strengthening Fraction Skills Through Play

Number lines make explicit and build upon pre-existing spatial-numeric intuitions, support children鈥檚 growing understanding of ratio, proportion and scaling, and help students to construct and internalize a 鈥渕ental number line鈥 that continues to develop in complexity from kindergarten through university mathematics and beyond.

Students outside with a title that reads, "Listening to the World, A 3-part lesson exploring sound".

A three-part lesson exploring how sound works and how we perceive it. Through classroom experiments鈥攕uch as testing how sound travels through different materials and environments鈥攁nd neighbourhood sound walks, students will fine-tune their listening skills and develop an appreciation for the subtleties in their surroundings.

A header image that has children and an instructor seated on a basketball court, and a title that reads, "Approaching Math Through Basketball".

In collaboration with YAAACE, The Robertson Program set out to develop a series of engaging activities aimed at fostering a deeper understanding of probability and statistics among a fifth-grade competitive basketball team.

A header image with children listening to a book being read aloud by an instructor, and a title that reads, "Approaching Math Through Story, Using Quilting Stories to Explore Patterning, Number & Geometry".

Quilts are holders of stories about community, culture, tradition, celebration 鈥 and even math! Picture books focused on quilts can help students build skills, such as spatial sense skills by thinking about patterns, shapes, angles, symmetry and much more.