Math

This Month: social emotional learning

This strand focuses on students’ development and application of social-emotional learning skills to support their learning of math concepts and skills, foster their overall well-being and ability to learn, and help them build resilience and thrive as math learners.

Students will work on being able to:

• express and manage their feelings, and show understanding of the feelings of others, as they engage positively in mathematics activities

• work through challenging math problems, understanding that their resourcefulness in using various strategies

• recognize that testing out different approaches to problems and learning from mistakes is an important part of the learning process

• work collaboratively on math problems – expressing their thinking, listening to the thinking of others

• see themselves as capable math learners, and strengthen their sense of ownership of their learning

• make connections between math and everyday contexts to help them make informed judgements and decisions