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September 2014 In this edition of the News you will find:   Menu Maths Updated   Best Price / Last Chance   Picture Puzzles: New Menu Added   New Cube Tube Videos   Tasks of the Month Task 190, Magic Hexagon Task 192, Keith's Kubes Please feel free to distribute this information.

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Menu Maths Updated Menu Maths is the concept of offering students choice in their learning of mathematics. This month we have updated our Menu Maths page to make this section easier to read and make it clear that we would like to see your stories about using a menu approach to delivering units of work. It's easy to create menus especially if you have tasks in your school resources because you can use the Task Cameo Content Finder to find tasks that are connected by content, which is the most common basis for building a unit plan. The Menu Maths page also leads you to Menu Maths Packs and Picture Puzzles both of which offer ready prepared menus to help students learn to work like a mathematician. See Link List below. Best Price / Last Chance The purchase price of an access code to Picture Puzzles has been $110 for two months now as a pre-release special. This is a once only purchase - no more to pay. Offer ends September 30th. Introductory Price of $220 from October 1st. Established Price of $330 from March 1st, 2015. September the 30th is in the school holidays. If you don't act now on the Pre-release Special, it will not be available next term. See Link List below.

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• Picture Puzzles: New Menu Added

  A new menu, Number & Computation A, became available to Picture Puzzles members at the end of August. It uses Poly Plug and is built on the Uncover Counting, a Calculating Changes activity.

  The next menu, Space & Measurement B, is expected around the end of September. Each menu includes five Picture Puzzles with extensive teaching notes and each Picture Puzzle is a PDF slide show that will display on any computing device.

  Currently available menus are:

  Pattern & Algebra A	Space & Measurement A	Number & Computation A

  See Link List below for more information.

Link List Menu Maths Working Mathematically (PDF) Picture Puzzles Cube Tube: Four & Twenty Blackbirds Task 62, Four & Twenty Blackbirds Task Cameo Library (206 tasks listed) Task Cameo Content Finder Did you miss the Previous News? If so you missed information about: WLAM at Pymble Ladies' College: Part 2 Business For Sale Picture Puzzles: Opportunity Knocks Journals at Ashburton Revisited New Cube Tube Videos Snippets Iceberg Information about two Tasks of the Month (Tasks 187, 189) ...and more...

Did You Know? You can Search Mathematics Centre. Our Site Map acts as a Table of Contents to help you find what you need in Mathematics Centre. You can find photos of every task using the Task Library. You can find tasks by content using the Task Cameo Content Finder. Calculating Changes offers Content Finder & Year Level Finder tools. You can find tasks coded by Year Level and Curriculum Strand in the Task Centre Catalogue. (PDF file) You can search for lessons by Year Level, Curriculum Strand, Lesson Features & Keyword at Maths300. You can connect Tasks to their Maths300 companion lesson using Tasks & Maths300 (a PDF file). Excel version provided by Pymble Ladies' College All these links, and more, appear in Working with Mathematics Centre (a PDF file).