OTF Math Office Hours gives beginning teachers and teacher candidates the opportunity to ask questions about math concepts and procedures and to receive support from a teacher qualified in math. Our contacts at the Ontario Teacher Candidates’ Council (OTCC) have expressed support for this program.
Facilitator: Trish Maeker
- To access Trish’s Delta Math Practice Exercises, you will need to create an account. Follow the instructions in the attached “Delta” .pdf document.
- To create a Desmos account to work through activities modelled by Trish during her session, follow the instructions in the attached “DESMOS” .pdf document.
- The attached “What Would You Do_EQAO” .pdf document provides questions from previous EQAO Grade 9 Math assessments.
And…
- For answers to questions about the MPT administration, consult the MPT website at https://www.mathproficiencytest.ca/#/en/applicant/landing
- You can view archived Math Office Hours here: https://www.otffeo.on.ca/en/learning/otf-connects/otf-math-office-hours/
- Nia Ghomaschchi’s YouTube video 11 Strategies For Passing The Ontario Math Proficiency Test can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rx06D3yuxe8
- If you are on Facebook, check out the FB Group: Rethink the Teacher Candidate Math Legislation. It provides many notes, helpful tips, discussion and updates, etc.
- Using Math Moments to Multiply Math Skills is a series of 10 webinars designed to develop conceptual understanding and to lead both students and you to being better positioned to generate algorithms to build procedural fluency. Find them here: https://www.otffeo.on.ca/en/learning/otf-connects/resources/
Finally, here are some additional resources to help you prepare for the MPT available on YouTube…
- Brock Teacher Candidate Kristin Dreise goes through the sample test and answers to each question in this YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-7fnPD_c7w
- Series of short videos by a teacher who goes by Bright Stars on You Tube, with each dealing with a specific topic covered on the MPT. These include: Probability, Variables in Expressions, Exponent Laws, Number Sense – Place Value, BEDMAS – Order of Operations, Linear Relations, Probability, Parallel and Perpendicular Lines, Prime and Composite Numbers.
- Math and Physics teacher Olivier Chabot works though each of the MPT questions in his YouTube series called Duddhawork, a play on words for “Do the work”. You will find Olivier’s many videos, each going through one question of the MPT sample test, as well as a video with seven steps for preparing for the MPT, at https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=duddhawork .