Our World, Our Numbers

 This is a brand new blog, but one I happened to stumble across today. I was pleasantly surprised to learn that this blog is actually also connected with Mr. Avery's blog (from my first blog review!)

Our world, our numbers, is a blog that is connecting schools in Canada, the United States, New Zealand, and Australia, and is designed for primary students sharing their mathematical lives. Each of these countries has different time zones, different currency, and different costs of living. Students learn about these things through interacting with each other with different medias, such as videos, slide shows and pictures.

Every four or so days, a new topic comes up that a new class is responsible for learning about and teaching to the other students/classes that are part of the project. The post that was put up today was from the grade 4 classes in Victoria, Australia, about their currency. The students created a slide presentation with pictures of their currency with interesting facts about each piece of currency. The information provided was interesting facts to help promote learning. They also created a video talking about their currency, allowing other students to experience hearing and seeing students in different countries with different accents. The video shows different products that can be purchased and the approximate price you would pay in Australia. The post ends asking the other students how the currency compares in their countries, and how much things cost where others live.

I will be following this blog to see responses of students from around the world and see what they are learning from each other - I can't wait!