We believe:

• All students should begin to explore what a mathematician is by participating in activities that promote and encourage:
  • curiosity and a sense of wonder
  • playfulness 
  • flexibility
  • sense making
  • resilience
• Children develop a mathematical foundation by building beliefs about what mathematics is and what it means to understand and “do” mathematics.
• Children need to be actively engaged in doing Mathematics with hands on manipulatives daily.
• Children are influenced by the positive attitude about mathematics from the adults around them.
• Children need high quality problems to solve that relate to their real world where possible.
• Cross curricular connections make learning mathematics more meaningful and add to understanding.