Let’s Plan our Birthday Party!

Believing that the planner is a living illustration of an ongoing collaboration to facilitate transdisciplinary thinking and learning (Learning and Teaching, IB), this post aims to share a Grade 5 Math planner about teaching different types of numbers. The template used is the one already shared on my blog “How to develop a math planner […]

What’s Happening on the Stairs?

A thorough understanding of basic number facts and arithmetical operations, as well as a solid knowledge of number properties and number relationships, is an essential prerequisite element to develop mental computation skills. Indeed, mental computation needs to be viewed as a sequence that starts from the kindergarten and develops over the years, and as a […]

Exponents, Just the Beginning

The exponent of a number shows how many times to multiply it; It is repeated multiplication. In Grade 5, students are introduced to exponents while writing big numbers in expanded form. At this level, they are required to use whole number exponents to denote powers of 10, use the new terminology (base, power, squared, and […]