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River Heights Celebrates Math Heroes

Caption: River Heights students challenge one another to be Math Heroes.

As math heroes, River Heights students will:

  • Talk about math
  • Play with numbers
  • Take risks
  • Celebrate mistakes and use them to help our brains grow
  • Accept feedback
  • Persevere with math problems
  • Celebrate math success
  • Engage our families as math partners

Daily, they are challenged to be “Math Heroes.” They celebrate their successes, failures, share Math Moments, Math is Everywhere Challenges, and Math Selfies to help their students develop a better understanding of numbers.

Joseph Campbell once articulated that, “You are the hero of your own story.” These are some of the Math Hero stories that are emerging at River Heights:

Teacher to Student: Mrs. Heaslip to Nicholas

One day, Nicholas had given his answer, which was wrong. Then, he looked at his work and said "Oh, I know what I did wrong!" and went on to explain his mistake. I congratulated him, telling him that his brain just grew even more because he learned from his mistake! Well, that started a flurry of hands being raised, anxious to tell me where they had made their mistakes!

Student to Student: Sierra to Aidan

This year, our principals and teachers challenged us to be Math Heroes by taking risks and not to be afraid to make mistakes in math. This is a very challenging thing to do, especially as a grade eight student. My math hero is Aidan. He always accepts feedback, uses it to help him “get better,” and perseveres to the end of every challenging math problem that we do. In March, our teachers challenged us to take a “math selfie” with our families, doing some kind of math activity. At first, we were scared to do something like that. Then, Aidan took a risk and did it. Because of that, we all saw that it was ok to take a risk in math. Aidan is a great math hero for everyone.

Student to Teacher: Sophie to Mr. Lacey

Mr. Lacey is my Math Hero because he perseveres and never gives up on us or a math problem…even if the question is hard. Having him as a math hero is important to me because he helped me and my classmates “get better” at math. He always gives us challenging questions in math…even on the last day of school. I’m better at math because of him. I hope you get to meet this wonderful teacher and my Math Hero.

River Heights is excited about their learning (failures and successes). Please share your Math Hero story with them @RiverHeights_ES