Greater Edmonton Conference Shaw Centre, Edmonton
Where: Greater Edmonton Conference
Shaw Centre, Edmonton
Date: February 22-26
Workshops and exhibit space
School and district workshops available Feb.22-24
"Back to Square One" 101
Ways to Use The Learning Carpet
This two and one half
hour workshop is a
fast-paced, interactive
programme that will
introduce innumerable and
creative ways to use The
Learning Carpet,
a 100 square floor grid that
is 6 feet square. Teachers
will actively experience
concepts in all five strands
of mathematics:numeration,
patterning, measurement,
geometry, data management
and probability. Practical
strategies for map and globe
skills and basic phonemic
awareness, will also be
shared using the grid.
The Learning
Carpet, is a
teaching tool that
is used to
kinaesthetically
teach primary/junior
children math and
language concepts.
In the workshop the
teachers will sit on
chairs around the
carpet in a
horseshoe fashion.
In the spring of
2003, The Ontario
Ministry of
Education, for The
Early Math
Investment Programme,
approved the hundred
square carpet for
all grades K-3. They
have recommended
that there be a
hundred square
carpet in every
classroom K-3.
The Learning
Carpet-TLC was the
only carpet approved
for all grades K-3.
The Learning
Carpet is now a
recognized, integral
component of
effective primary
and junior math and
language programmes
in Ontario and
throughout the rest
of Canada.
