DVD Series

Exploring Student Thinking

Making Math Meaningful
NTSC DVD  Running Time: 22 mins

This remarkable Greater Victoria School District video of first year teacher, Marla Margetts, using the “How Many Ways” idea from the Teachable Moment Manual, is inspirational. Marla’s students exhibit confidence in their own thinking skills as they create equations for the daily numbers. The video also demonstrates how important the connection between home and school is as the students bring some incredible ideas into the classroom.

Power of Ten  -- All The Facts

Exploring Student Thinking
NTSC DVD Running Time: 36:43 mins

In this video four primary teachers personalize the teaching of basic facts by focusing on student strengths and building from ‘what students know’ to ‘what they need to know’. One section makes the connection to problem solving. Another section shows the teacher using the Power of Ten Cards and demonstrates transferring the process from the cards to student visualization.

Click here for samples of All the Facts sheets.

Power of Ten  -- The Weekly Graph

Exploring Student Thinking
NTSC DVD  Running Time: 33:12 mins

This video gives the clearest statement of the Power of Ten philosophy and also shows how student-collected data can provide meaning for the basic facts which children are trying to learn. In one video clip a grade one student becomes a ‘ruler maker’.

Power of Ten  -- Story Problems

Exploring Student Thinking
NTSC DVD  Running Time: 17:56 mins

Problem solving should be at the heart of any mathematics program. Stories give life to numbers. Projects such as the height project make connections to school, home and community life. Students write problems and then those problems are used to make connections to the ever present basic facts.