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Mathematics

How to Use These Resources

TVO Learn is designed to meet each student where they are on their learning journey. Learning Activities are comprehensive and require guided instruction from an adult, while Resources for Learning, Apply the Learning prompts and Vocabulary lists work well to reinforce specific skills or to enable independent exploration of a subject. Use these helpful tips to get the most from TVO Learn.

Curriculum Overview

Throughout this grade, in order to promote a positive identity as a math learner, to foster well-being and the ability to learn, build resilience, and thrive, students will apply, to the best of their ability, a variety of social-emotional learning skills to support their use of the mathematical processes and their learning in connection with the expectations in the other five strands of the mathematics curriculum. 

Students identify and learn to manage emotions that they may feel such as pride, confusion, fear and excitement. For example, in algebra as they create and execute code that represents a mathematical situation. Multiplication is introduced using rows and columns, and students are expected to know x 2, x 5 and x 10. 

The mathematics curriculum is divided into six strands:

  • Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) Skills in Mathematics and the Mathematical Processes

  • Number

  • Algebra

  • Data

  • Spatial Sense

  • Financial Literacy

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Learning Activities

Learning Activities provide opportunity for deeper exploration of a subject. Organized by grade and topic (or strand), students should be guided through each Learning Activity by an adult. Before clicking on a topic to prepare for or begin this guided instruction, be sure to read these helpful tips about how to get the most out of TVO Learn.

Learning Activities provide opportunity for deeper exploration of a subject. Organized by grade and topic (or strand), students should be guided through each Learning Activity by an adult. Before clicking on a topic to prepare for or begin this guided instruction, be sure to read these helpful tips about how to get the most out of TVO Learn.

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Resources for Learning

Chosen by TVO educators, these resources support the curriculum outlined above. Review the below list of options along with the activities. Then, read, watch, listen or play to build understanding and knowledge.

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Complete the suggested activities using these resources and other TVO resources.

Apply the Learning

Choose from the following to consolidate learning across all curriculum strands.

  • Create your own definitions for 20 of the words in the vocabulary list. 

  • Can the number 225 be described as 200 + 20 + 5 or 2 hundreds, 2 tens, and 5 ones? Show how you know? 

  • Identify multiplication equations that are equal, such as 3 × 4 and 6 × 2.  

  • Calculate the change required for simple transactions involving whole-dollar amounts. 

  • You have $10, what would you go and buy if you could choose anything at all and why would you choose that item. 

  • Look for three-dimensional objects in your home and imagine what these objects would look like if they were taken apart or flipped around. 

  • You have 1 000 items (marbles), how many different ways can you organize them? How can you check your solutions? 

  • Find an item in your home such as a cereal box and unfold it to see the shape it creates and measure the area and perimeter. 

  • Find an object to weigh in your kitchen, estimate the weight of the object and how much it can hold. How could you measure the object’s weight?  

  • What time is it? Compare the time on a digital and analog clock? Draw the time in the format of your choice. 

  • Draw a picture to show that if two friends are equally sharing one apple, each will get one-half or two one-fourths.

Vocabulary

Review this list of vocabulary associated with the curriculum. Practice spelling, research definitions, and find these vocabulary words when engaging with the TVO resources or completing learning activities.

Students should understand and be able to apply these words in context.

1 000 

array 

columns 

equivalent 

fractions 

represented 

multiplication 

x 2, x 5 and x 10 

number 

rows  

algebra  

analyze 

code 

create 

describe 

division equations 

equal = 

3 × 4 and 6 × 2 

identify 

mathematical modelling 

multiplication equations 

pattern 

pattern repeats 

repeating operation 

averages 

collect 

comparison 

data 

data collections 

display 

graphs 

interpret 

likely 

mean 

mode 

organize 

predict 

scales 

tree diagram 

unlikely

analog clock

angle

area

digital clock

edge

face

length

measure

metric

objects

spatial sense

time

three-dimensional

vertex

weight

calculating

change

whole-dollar amounts

financial literacy

simple transactions

understanding of money

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