Meeting Grade 9s

Today Grade 9s came to school and met their classmates and student leaders and walked through timetables meeting teachers and learning more school skills and hearing about opportunities available.

My session was the how/when to write an email session, which was pretty fast! Students sent me emails telling me about their favourite number and why it is their favourite. After that we had time to do some math.

Glad I have some problems in my back pocket. We looked at the 4 4s problem, figuring out how to use 4 4s, and the operations we know (including any exponent), and making expressions that equal 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10

We got several expressions figured out. We were working in small groups, practicing some of the norms in our classroom.

I had not anticipated having time to get into any math at all today, so this was a lovely start to the term. We start for real with students next Wednesday.