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March 2019
In this edition of the News you will find:
DIME Rotagram Booklets
Happy 50th Birthday
Get to Know a Cameo
... Game Show
... Pack Up Your Bears
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- DIME Rotagram Booklets
We always knew there was more learning that could be achieved with Rotagrams than estimation of angles, which is the main focus of Task 214, Angle Estimation. We knew because decades ago we were using resource booklets in our classrooms that were written by Geoff Giles. Geoff, who passed away in 2005, was a remarkable educator - inspiring, creative, loved mathematics, understood it in depth and a pedagogical leader. His only aim was to help all kids learn mathematics with as much independence and self-confidence as possible.
A discussion earlier in the month with Sue Lemmer, Mawson Lakes School, has led to Mathematics Centre being granted permission to reproduce Geoff's original DIME Rotagram Booklets and related worksheets as PDF files and to freely distribute them through the site. We are extremely grateful to Geoff's wife for making this happen.
So if you have Rotagrams, you can now do much more with them. The three 16 page booklets are, in effect, three units of work - Equal Angles, Rotation, Directions. If you don't have Rotagrams, then look through the DIME material and consider whether you need to get some. See Link List below.
- Happy 50th Birthday
Photo: Craig Watson
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March 15th was the 50th birthday of the Moke Owners' Association of Victoria, the first club in the world for that marque. That's as good a reason as any to use Maths300 Lesson 126, Make A Moke. It's an investigation into the question What is the most likely roll on which a six will appear?. There are games where you have to roll a six to start and Make A Moke is one of them. In what appears to be a paradox, the answer is the first roll.
See the Maths300 lesson plan or the Link List below for the rules. The game was also published pre-Maths300 as Six To Start in 'Mathematics Learning for Life 3', Oxford University Press, p.78. Check your library. Suits Years 4 - 12.
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The 'birthday' article below provides information which could generate the start of the lesson. It includes a video link.
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Keep smiling,
Doug.
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