Mathematics

Interactive virtual field trips are designed for students in grades: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11/12.

Mathematics is a way we can understand the world around us and rebuild it. As a universal language with the same meaning across the globe, math unites us. Math allows us to work together towards new ideas and innovations. Math is one of the most creative disciplines! As math teachers, you have the opportunity (and the challenge) of giving the gift and the power of mathematical knowledge and skills to students. Our field trips can help you achieve this incredibly important task.

Let's bring this to life with two examples:

  1. Rather than rely solely on direct instructional resources like textbooks or other traditional forms of didactic material, you can also take students on an E2 trip to spark math learning. Field trips provide real-world material for students to ask questions and make connections to the curriculum. For example, in ‘Building Blocks : See What Your City is Made Of’ or the ‘Follow the Money: From Coins to Crypto’ field trips, students encounter real world uses for curriculum topics such as ‘algebraic expressions’. Our interactive field trips make it easy for teachers to bring the curriculum to life in accessible, relevant and interest-based ways. Our interactive field trips do not provide direct instruction of the curriculum – we know teachers do that best. Instead, what we offer is a way for Mathematics teachers to draw connections to geometry, analytic geometry, arithmetic and algebra, statistics and combinatorics and more from our adventures.

  2. You are working on students’ global skills and concepts such as critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, problem solving, and mathematical reasoning and communication. Because all of our field trips address global skills and concepts you can bring your class on any field trip to develop their cross-curricular competencies.

See how each of our interactive field trips connect to the curriculum, global skills and concepts, SDGs, and careers on our Events Schedule page.

What you can do before, during and after a field trip

With every field trip you will receive a package containing educational materials including a system map, a mind map, questions, prompts, and challenges to scaffold discussions, projects and continued learning that is level-appropriate for your students.

    • Provide context around the topic and frame the related problems for your students

    • Develop formative assessment around related concepts

    • Scaffold the experience with some questions that are level-appropriate for your students

    • Ignite their curiosity!

    • Encourage questions

    • Take full advantage of the interactive nature of the field trip

    • Mindfully highlight links between the information shared and your curriculum

    • Guide students in a post-trip discussion. What do they want to learn more about? What interests may this have sparked?

    • Explore opportunities to reinvest conceptual learning in new contexts

    • Revisit the learning as often as possible during curricular teaching time to consolidate learning

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