by Amy CAMP | Oct 23, 2014 | Secondary Maths, The Grades
The secondary school has re-allocated 80 minutes per week of IWS (Independent Work Sessions) and split it between Maths and languages. This allows more opportunities for me to supervise students while they complete independent work. This is also allowing more...
by Amy CAMP | Oct 23, 2014 | Secondary Maths, The Grades
The IXL report for October 12-18 is very strong. Students are becoming more comfortable with the Intensives time structure and learning to use the provided time with greater success. Many students are also starting to do more than the minimum requirements (a score of...
by Amy CAMP | Oct 15, 2014 | Grade 12, Secondary Maths, The Grades
Grade 12s have learned to calculate derivatives of polynomial functions. This week they are exploring the significance of tangent lines, normal lines and their gradients. Applications appear in physics and economics when studying rates of change and marginal...
by Amy CAMP | Oct 15, 2014 | Grade 7, Grade 8, Secondary Maths, The Grades
Students in grades 7 and 8 have been playing the popular game, 2048, in an effort to collect some data to help answer some questions. In the game, players attempt to combine numbers together to make larger and larger combinations before the board fills up. Some of the...
by Amy CAMP | Oct 13, 2014 | Secondary Maths, The Grades
Image my delight when my weekly IXL report came in and showed that secondary students completed over 2,600 problems over a holiday week. Students who completed more than 200 problems this past week include Sara, Fiza, and Andee.
by Amy CAMP | Oct 2, 2014 | Grade 7, Secondary Maths, The Grades
During the recent assessment, Grade 7 students saw the return of a sequence of numbers that appeared at the beginning of the year… The Fibonacci numbers. In the assessment, students were asked to consider the number of ways that a person could climb a set of...
