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A child studying.

When the Ontario government rolled out its new math curriculum in 2020, it was touted as a 鈥渂ack-to-basics鈥 approach.

Jason Jones smiling in front of a river. The title of his webinar is above: Gaa-gikinoo'amawigooyang: When they teach us

Jason Jones will share teachings that can be learned from animals that have been passed down to him from his Grandmother, Nancy Jones.

A laptop computer with Online Playful Math on the screen and the OPM logo

When schooling quickly transitioned to online platforms last year, The Robertson Program was forced to reconceptualize how we would continue to engage educators and children in math and science education.

Amber Sandy and Erin Sperling

Teachers often wonder how to integrate Indigenous ways of knowing into the elementary science curriculum. Can it be done in an authentic and non-appropriating way? Educators are concerned with creating safe, inclusive spaces for their Indigenous and non-Indigenous students.

Jane Tom's Grade 1 Class playing shape transformer

While working with educators to develop new ways to teach spatial reasoning to early years鈥 students, The Robertson Program met Jane Tom, an educator at Pegamigaabo School in Big Grassy First Nation.

Math and science learned in Indigenous land-based experiences

In our March webinar, educators Marlo Beaucage and Nancy O鈥橠onnell shared the math and science opportunities that naturally emerge when students are given opportunity to form a reciprocal relationship with land.