Keeping Informed

Here is a great way to see what your children are learning in their math classrooms. Check out the Investigation unit for your child's grade level. Many classroom teachers include descriptions of the type of math instruction that students are engaged in during each week in class newsletters also.

The Investigation units support the instruction towards the Vermont Grade Expectations (GE) in Math. The GEs are the BIG IDEAS from the NCTM (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics) Standards that we want students to achieve in mathematics at specific grade levels. These concepts are also targeted for assessment on the Fall NECAP in grades 3 through 8.

Resource Books for Parents

As the school year starts to unwind, parents are always interested in how to support their children. Sometimes the math seems foreign or too long ago to remember. We believe that these resources will help parents understand the math behind the lessons that are being taught in classrooms. We, as teachers, use these resources ourselves sometimes to make the math clearer for us and our students. These books define the math vocabulary that is so important to our students and provide easy to understand examples of these concepts and skills. All of these books can be purchased from Great Source Education Group and are available right at our very own Barnes & Noble in Burlington.

For Grades K- 2- Math to Learn
Grades 3-4 - Math to Know
Grades 4-6 - Math at Hand
Grades 5- 8 - Math on Call

Copies of these books can be viewed in some classrooms and with both Math Teacher leaders, Sandi and Allison.

Welcome to a Brand New School Year

We'll be off and running beginning August 31st. So many teachers have worked over the summer to reflect, revise and refine their math thinking and instruction. All classrooms will be integrating more technology into math instruction this year. We'll be tapping into students' natural curiousity and inclination to explore and use all sorts of available technology.

The use of technology may look different at each grade level and each classroom. From the use of software to practice and enrich math skills and concepts to the use of search engines to collect data and then ultimately display and report about a particular topic, students will be engaged in many ways.

Welcome

Check in regularly for K- 4 math news from The City School.