Mr. Simpson

ESDH Math and Science Teacher - Sports Enthusiast - Lightning, Patriots, Raptors and Jays Fan

[Mr. Simpson @MrSimpsonMath]

Great volleyball season wrapped up today for @GBJHS girls team. An undefeated regular season, two straight sets playoff wins, and some strong tournament results. You were a great group to coach. Congratulations to you all for the hard work. @HRCE_JHsports Akerley Tier 2 Champions

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Science 10 students from @EasternShoreDHS were in the lab today to start dissecting and analysing owl pellets. #owlpellets #Science

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Science 10 students were in the lab today creating a single replacement chemical reaction with copper (II) chroide and aluminum.

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Working together using sine, cosine and tangent to find the perimeter and area of different 2D shapes.

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Math 10 spent Friday afternoon outside using clinometers and measuring tapes to find out heights of tall objects and to see if the @EasternShoreDHS ramp was to code.

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Today was a great day for a cross country race at Point Pleasant Park. Well done @EasternShoreDHS runners.
Go Schoons!

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Math 10 students played ultimate tic tac toe and reviewed surface area and volume of cones, pyramids and spheres today in groups at the whiteboard. Lots of great collaboration.

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Thanks @GBJHS.
It's been a great five years teaching at Gaetz Brook.
However it is time to move up the road as I move to @EasternShoreDHS .
Safe summer everyone and see you in fall!

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@ArtRoomMsLiu @GBJHS Well done Braxton!!

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Today we worked on order of operations questions involving positive and negative fractions. Groups did phenomenal using their previous knowledge to work together to solve these problems. #buildingthinkingclassroom #hrcemath

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9s worked on adding and subtraction rational mixed fractions.
We started small and built up to the mixed fractions by working at white boards in random groups of 3 to answer 20 questions. I took pictures as they all were so proud the work they did. #buildingthinkingclassrooms

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Grade 8s worked together to measure different prisms and cylinders. They then found the volume and surface area of these objects

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Grade 9s figured out how many pennies spaghetti noodles could hold. They graphed the data, interpolated and extrapolated to estimate values for a given number of spaghetti noodles.

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Grade 9 worked together to match 18 graphs, 18 equations and 18 table of values. Lots of great discussions and strategies for how complete the task.

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Using polypad on @MathigonOrg today to review equivalent fractions with the grade 8s. So many different tools that could be used. We will certainly be using polypad again.

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Grade 8 students worked hard today and had great discussions with each other related to integer order of operations. Thanks @AliciaPotvin1 for the @Desmos activity.

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Thanks @HRCE_Math for access to a great math menu for the grade 9s. It was a great way to wrap up our unit on rational numbers.

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@GBJHS took some time today to remember. The virtual ceremony was planned and ran by a group of grade 9 students. #WeWillRememberThem

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Using @knowledgehook and a pixel art activity today to see what grade 8 students remember about adding and subtracting integers.