The Math Guy

I've been into a few Grade 7, 8 and 9 classes over the past few weeks and one of the areas of focus has been integers. It's no big s...

The announcement of Ontario's EQAO results was followed with a predictable tsunami of opinion as to what is wrong with Math in Ontario s...

I'm a firm believer that Math games and puzzles offer an excellent opportunity for practising Math. I sometimes wonder if kids these day...

I was in a grade 6 class yesterday and a couple of quick questions really made me understand why students might have some measurement miscon...

In a  previous post  I shared some Math Vines that I have created with my colleagues Chad Richard and Dan Allen. Here are some others we hav...

**Update: I have now created a website with these yohaku puzzles: http://www.yohaku.ca/ Like many folk, I'm a big fan of number puzzle...

I am sometimes concerned that our students' experience of Measurement consists primarily of memorising formulas and conversions at the e...