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Journal of the Mathematics Council of the Alberta Teachers’ Association
Volume 55 Issue 1, June 2018
9 to 18
Intersections in Reasoning Within Science and Mathematics
Ashley Pisesky, Janelle McFeetors, and Mijung Kim
Elementary school classrooms are rich sites of children’s mathematical and scientific thinking. As a preservice teacher (Ashley Pisesky) and researchers
who have taught in schools (Janelle McFeetors and Mijung Kim), we are privileged to watch and listen to children’s excitement as they make sense of a new mathematical idea or figure out a scientific way of problem solving. Observing colleagues in classrooms, teachers often plan in interdisciplinary ways knowing that children’s learning is more meaningful when they connect ideas. With curricula packed with content, integrating content areas also helps to ensure that all outcomes are addressed in a
school year. Teachers and students do not necessarily live out artificial distinctions between content areas in their classrooms.
