Hallways

Visuals to spark ideas and highlight the importance of numeracy in the school.

Cardinal Directions in the Hall

3. Numeracy Guiding Document 

4. Examples of Spatial Information (physical locations, directions, shape and space tasks, Maps)
Cardinal Directions (North, East, South, West).

5. School Maps on the Wall with directional arrows to places in the school

6. Maps of city with distances to other places in the world/Canada/Province/City (example a school in St. Albert is 10 952 km Northeast of Philippines)

7. Maps linked to story settings

8. Students developing, organizing and tracking classroom fundraisers, charts and graphs on walls. i.e. a thermometer of funds raised during a fundraiser. Graphs of the weather. 

9. Displays to help students conceptualize magnitude - i.e this hallway is the equivalent of...2 buses, 1 blue whale, or 5000 math textbooks stacked up or expressed as a % or fraction of something. Resource

10. Clocks labelled with strategies

11. Clocks connected to fractions (Examples)
Heinemann Resource

12. Number lines - throughout the entire building navigating through the school by location on a number line (e.g. the bathrooms are at 127 and the office is at negative 35 and color coded dots showing multiples of numbers).  

Maps Linked to Story Settings

Shape Art

13. Mathematics Scavenger Hunt.

14. Art on the walls that includes patterns, open spaces, shapes, geometric designs, specific use of colour. (Example 1, Example 2, Example 3)

15. Pictures of book covers in the library that illustrate quantitative and spatial concepts.
Books that teach Math

16. Labels around the primary school that could identify shapes of different objects

17. Display case with shapes students built out of different recycled materials or popsicle sticks.

18. School TV (e.g. have the weather channel on; have a countdown to the number of days until the end of the year).

19. Conduct school polls and post results. Example 1, Example 2

20. Distance posted to washrooms/office/GYM from classroom (can also be non-standard measures or in converted measurements - millimeters!)

21. Carpets that have a map of the world or patterns of some sort.

22. 'No Walking in the Halls' challenge that has students completing tasks in patterns or other numerical ways.