Our Land Acknowledgement shows recognition of and respect for Indigenous peoples from the past and the present. We acknowledge that the property of Richland Academy is situated upon traditional territories of the Anishinabek, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, Mississaugas of the Credit, Mississauga and the Wendat peoples.
Recognizing this land is an expression of gratitude and appreciation to those whose territory you reside on, and a way of honouring the Indigenous people who have been living and working on the land from time immemorial.
Recently, our Grade 5/6 students tried to solve a puzzle where the letters A-Z = the numbers 1-26.
Most students figured out that you must first assign a number to each letter. Then, the sum of the 2 numbers on the right, minus the sum of the 2 numbers on the left, was equal to the number in the middle.
But, one student discovered that you can also subtract diagonally! This required the class to think about and work with negative integers, but it worked, for all 4 puzzles!
