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April 2020 In this edition of the News you will find:   Maths At Home Support   Get to Know a Cameo      ... Jumping Kangaroos      ... Square Pairs Please feel free to distribute this information.

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• Maths At Home Support

  A little over three weeks ago we started Maths At Home to support learners, parents, teachers and schools caught up in school closure. The site is for K to 10 and we have had an encouraging response from within Australia and overseas.

  • Maths At Home is totally public and designed to supplement anything you are providing.
  • Basically we thought it might save you a bit of work.

  We are passing the 'home schooling' lens over Mathematics Centre and choosing activities that can be successful learning launch pads in the home environment. Then we are presenting them on the assumption that the youngest learners will have an older learning partner and learners in later year levels will be more independent. There's 24 rich activities available at the moment which means at least 2 or 3 for every level. The Activity Library lists the range of year levels at which the activity has been used and brief content details. The content list covers all the corresponding year levels, so it doesn't imply that all the listed content is appropriate for the broad range of learners who may be accessing that activity.

  An extra feature is that each activity provides gallery space to display photos and comments from families (or other users). Two families have already contributed to the K/1 activity Ten Friends.

  Over to you. Use the resource as you want ... or don't use it all. It's there to help. If you think it is valuable feel free to send the link on through your professional and social media networks.

  However, we ask that every teacher and every family that uses the site registers their email address. How to do that is explained on site. Why?

  • So that we get some sort of measure of its value.
  • So that we can keep users informed of new activities.

  See Link List below for the web address.

Link List Maths At Home Jumping Kangaroos Square Pairs Did you miss the Previous News? If so you missed information about: Release of Maths At Home ...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. You can create your own Task Library in a professional learning context with the eTask Package. 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. (PDF file) Excel version provided by Pymble Ladies' College also links each Task to its Maths With Attitude content strand. All these links, and more, appear in Working with Mathematics Centre. (PDF file)