Before we get started with these 5 practices, it is important for the educator to set goals for instruction and to select appropriate tasks for the particular students at a particular time in their learning. This intentional planning for learning is very important. What is it that the students will be expected to learn?

In order to support you in this work, the curriculum team at SMCDSB is linking resources to support students in mastering skills and knowledge in the curriculum expectations as they are organized in the Focusing on the Fundamentals of Math document. We hope you had an opportunity earlier today to explore those links in the tables for your grade, giving consideration to individual students’ learning needs.

The following tables are provided below and you can click on the top right corner to open the document in a separate tab. The expectations are in connection with learning in all strands of the math curriculum – Number Sense and Numeration, Geometry and Spatial Sense, Measurement, Data Management and Probability, and Patterning and Algebra.

Setting goals for math instruction is key to clarifying what it is that students are to know and understand in their engagement in the math lesson. In knowing the curriculum expectations, it is also important to know what strategies and key ideas are needed. Proficient use of numeracy and operations is well described in the continuum by Alex Lawson in the book What to Look For.

In order to select appropriate tasks that will support the curriculum expectations and the concepts to be developed, please use the Strand Guides.