Helping educators create meaningful learning experiences is at the core of an ORIGO Education coaching program. It’s another step to ensure happy-to-learn Pre-K through Grade 6 thinkers at your school. See if your mathematics coaching program supports your educators where and when they need it. Click the checklist below. Let’s Strengthen Your Teaching and Learning […]
READ MOREFive Influencers of Learning Infographic
Research impacts everything we do at ORIGO Education. Discover how John Hattie’s groundbreaking study on Visible Learning has driven the shift from learning skills to students understanding mathematics conceptually. To read John Hattie’s groundbreaking study on Visible Learning, please click here: The Research Behind ORIGO Products: Visible Learning To download the Five Influencers of Learning […]
READ MOREThe Sieve of Eratosthenes Activity
Eratosthenes (air-uh-taws-thuh-neez) was an ancient Greek mathematician who wrote steps to find prime numbers. This process is called the Sieve of Eratosthenes and the free resource activity link below demonstrates how to find prime numbers. For more information on the webinar connected to this activity, please click here: Meet the Mathematicians: Who Are the Famous People […]
READ MOREMaking Mathematics Enjoyable Activity
Games engage students to help them enjoy math as they learn. But there are many other activities that don’t involve winners and losers that serve to win the hearts — and therefore minds — of young learners. To view the blog post related to this resource, please click here: Win Their Hearts to Win Their Minds To […]
READ MOREFencing the Circle Game (Pi Day Activity)
Let’s celebrate Pi Day with our fun, interactive ‘Fencing the Circle’ Game! This fun, downloadable resource encourages students to explore the relationship between the circumference and diameter of a circle, whilst using their knowledge of addition and division strategies to learn about ratio and rational numbers.
READ MOREFocus on Fractions Activities Grades 1–6
Please click the thumbnail to download the activity for use in your classroom! Grade 1 – Activities on Fractions – Matching Fractions Grade 2 – Activities on Fractions – Working with Fractions Grade 3 – Activities on Fractions – Fraction Fill Up Grade 4 – Activities on Fractions – Finding Fractions Game (calculating unit fractions) […]
READ MOREFraction Circles
All ancient civilizations wrestled with time and breaking the day into parts. The Romans used sundials borrowed from the Egyptians and split the daylight hours into 12 parts. The choice of 12 allowed them to work with halves, quarters, thirds, sixths, and twelfths. This convention is, of course, still in use today. Work with minutes […]
READ MOREPositional Language Cards
For children, play is a natural way to explore life and enjoy laughter. The playground or park is a perfect place for that! And most children will not realize they are doing early childhood math while they are playing. To view the blog post related to this resource, please click here: Early Childhood Math—In Their Own World: […]
READ MORENumber Sentence Template
Once children have done many concrete and pictorial activities to understand the count-on strategy, you can move to the Reinforce stage of the learning progression. In the Reinforce stage, children start to link their concrete and pictorial understanding to an abstract and symbolic representation. To view the blog post related to this resource, please click […]
READ MOREEarly Childhood Math: Number and Object Cards
Children have a natural love for learning and exploring in their daily lives. Did you know one of the best places to support this enthusiasm is riding in a car or in public transportation? Here are some fun, easy-to-do activities that will both brighten your day and the child’s through enjoying math in the car. […]
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