TheNumeracy Skills Framework website provides teachers with the numeracy skills required by students at each stage of development across all syllabuses. It encourages the integration of numeracy across the curriculum. Click on the image above to take you to the online version. There is a hard copy available for use in the maths cabinet in the office.
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An interesting article based around research evidence on the best way to learn maths facts, as well as some useful activities and resources that you might like to try with your class.
To supplement plenty of `hands on activities' you might like to try these apps. 1) Think 3D free (free) 2) Tap, Tap blocks (free) Some ideas - * use reflector on your smartboard to mirror the ipad screen. Create a shape, rotate to a given perspective. Students use manipulatives to recreate what they think the original shape is. * Use the camera tool to take photos of the same shape from multiple perspectives (using manipulatives or one of the apps above). Save the pics to your camera roll. Use pic collage to create a collage of your shape and label the different views. See below. Leave a comment and share your ideas!
As we know, Year 7 and 9 are already implementing the Mathematics K-10 Syllabus. The post below highlights some of the concepts that the students may not have learned in Year 6, but are required to have an understanding of in Year 7. It would be an idea for Stage 3 teachers to take some time to address these concepts or at the very least to introduce the students to the language eg. Cartesian plane You might also like to spend some time investigating the resources on the blog which were shared at the Driving Curriculum session held in Hornsby. These include Maths, English, Science and History presentations from the day. See also #curricdriver on twitter for tweets from the day.
My favourite no could be used in conjunction with a strategy lesson (perhaps to highlight common misconceptions with a particular strategy). Although the class featured shows Year 8, I have used this successfully with children as young as Year 2. Tech Tip: Use an ipad to take a photo of the selected work sample/s. Mirror your ipad to the smartboard using reflector. Your image will display on the smartboard. This is a great way to share student work across many KLA's.
If you have any questions or would like a demonstration please ask! If you try `My favourite no' please leave a comment and share your experiences. Today we ran the first session with the maths enrichment group `The Problem Solverz'. We decided to warm them up with a task from CSIRO maths called `The impossible hole'. (Thanks Julie for recommending this site. It is worth having a look at some of the other resources available too). This led to plenty of lively discussion - some wondered...... was it even possible? Of course it was! The children found a variety of ways to squeeze through a hole in the sheet of paper. We threw in a new rule - the largest person in the room must fit through the hole (of course that was me!). This meant a change in technique as the children had so far only found ways to get their own (rather small) frames through the holes. Again, the discussion flowed as the children experimented with different ways of cutting the paper to ensure the largest possible hole was made. Then ...... a breakthrough! A hole in an A4 piece of paper large enough to fit everyone! We moved on to some world cup fever (Thanks to Johnny Baker for the inspiration). The children had to construct their own soccer balls using sliding models. This was more challenging then it might first seem - requiring a level of dexterity as well as thought. The conversation again flowed as the children worked. "I was expecting this to be different. I'm actually having fun." "Is this even maths?" "When I think of maths, I usually think of things like 1+1". "Hey, look I made a hexagon.... I made a trapezium ..... I made a rhombus or is it a parralelogram? What is the difference anyway? There is more to maths than 1 + 1 ........
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