On the morning of the first Burnaby Implementation Day, Daryl Goeson and myself facilitated one of the inquiry sessions.  Here is a pdf file of the powerpoint  we used (which is a slightly edited version of the powerpoint given to all of the  inquiry facilitators).

The following files were also asked to be posted:

Inquiry resource list from DLRC April 2016

Pythagorean Thm Parking Lot Problem

Gauss and Abel Mathematics Contests  (May 13, 2015 )

In Burnaby, approximately 1000 students in grade 7 (or lower) participated in the national Gauss mathematics contest created at the University of Waterloo. This is an extremely challenging contest and our students performed remarkably well.  To answer 20 or more out of the 25 questions correctly on the Gauss contest is a tremendous achievement. Our district had many students accomplish this feat and within this group, the highest Burnaby scores are listed below.

Also, approximately 700 Burnaby students in grade 5 (or lower) participated in the Abel contest which is created by the Burnaby School District. This is also a very challenging contest and to answer 20 or more out of the 25 questions correctly on the Abel contest is quite impressive. Our district had many students achieve this goal and those with scores of 23 or higher are provided below.

Congratulations to all participants. May the math be with you!

Ron Coleborn

Burnaby Math and Science K-12 Consultant

 Gauss

Score of 150    (25/25)

Harry Jiang                 Capitol Hill

Bradley Louie              Buckingham

Karen Situ                    Gilmore

Jerry Sun                      Seaforth

Andy Wang                  Nelson

Ricky Yi                        Capitol Hill

Tiffany Zheng              Lakeview

Eric Zhou                     Seaforth

 

Score of 144    (24/25 – did not attempt one question)

Annette Lee                 Cameron

Erika Liang                  Sperling

Joee Luu                       Westridge

Jessie Sheng                Taylor Park

Julia You                      Marlborough

 

Score of 142    (24/25 – one question incorrect)

Samson Cai                 Twelfth Avenue

Alex Choi                     Rosser

Emily Fun                    Kitchener

Andy Huang                Capitol Hill

Simon Huang              Marlborough

Erika Lieu                    Capitol Hill

Sammy Lin                  Buckingham

Chandler Ma               Marlborough

Sylvia Xiao                   Lakeview

Fred Zhang                  Clinton

 

Abel

 

Score of 25

Andrew Chen                          Buckingham

Bradley Louie                          Buckingham

Benhur Tekle                           Maywood

Shawn Yee                               Marlborough

 

Score of 24

Bereket Ashebir                      Capitol Hill

Joshua Thorpe Dorward        Sperling

Chauncey Li                             Nelson

 

Score of 23

Bryan Chen                             Taylor Park

Gerry Chen                              Capitol Hill

Neo Huang                              Twelfth Avenue

Hui Lin                                     Maywood

Simon Lin                                Buckingham

Simon Rasmussen                 Capitol Hill

Daniel Wand                           Gilpin

Terry Yao                                Morley

Terrianne Zhang                   Capitol Hill