Clear and concise 9 pages providing background and detail for making your own tasks and creating your own Hands-on Task Library.
Powerful 69 page manual to support the use of Tasks. Every main section provides links to the relevant part of Mathematics Centre so the support goes way beyond the printed pages.
Every task coded by appropriate year level and content strands to which it relates. Information in this document is also included in the eTask Maker Manual. Four pages.
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Stimulating photos of teachers and students at work with tasks to help you discover their educational value.
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Due to the reading levels of the cards, tasks are often adapted when used with 5-8 year olds. Teachers have successfully used these tasks with Infants. How might they have been adapted?
One way to ensure some record gathering for assessment when students are working on tasks.
Student self assessment of their problem solving. Works well in conjunction with the teacher page.
One school's approach to a rubric model of assessment for a task that becomes a project.
Another school's approach to rubric assessment. Find out more about assessment of a Working Mathematically curriculum at our Assessment link.
All recording sheets required to support particular tasks gathered as a 32 page book for easy printing. Each is also available separately as PDF or an editable Word document.
Twelve page summary of the key features of 4 years of research in conjunction with the Aboriginal Education Unit, Tasmania
More on research plus success stories from classrooms at Research & Stories link. This link also includes a 'teacher talk' version of the INISSS Report.
Additional information related to the Home Lending Project can be found at Maths Around The Kitchen Table. Other models for making tasks an integral part of the curriculum can be found at Integrating Tasks.
A UK based research project investigating the success of a 'Maths Around The Kitchen Table' component of a school's mathematics curriculum.
