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Documents are organised below in these categories:

Red Square  Curriculum Support

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Red Square  Research Support

Domino Trails Record Sheet
Task 15, Domino Trails, Record Sheet

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Curriculum Support

Page 1, the Working Mathematically process as described by mathematicians. Now you know what it means to work like a mathematician.
One click gives both these pages.
Page 2, the most compact version of everything Mathematics Centre stands for.
Swedish version of Working Mathematically.


Easy find reference page of links to key areas of Mathematics Centre.

A one page flow chart to help you create your own Working Mathematically curriculum using Mathematics Centre resources.

A scaffold to help you build a Working Mathematically curriculum in your own way.

A mathematician's work begins with an interesting problem. These teaching craft features are used to fascinate, captivate and absorb students.
Simply stated focus, professional development, web site back up, resources support.
Run your own Discussion Lessons as in-house PD then debrief together around this document.

Task Centre Support


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.

Recording Sheets


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.
  • 15. Domino Trails
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  • 24. Squares Around Squares
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  • 42. Triangles Around Triangles
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  • 48. How Many Triangles?
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  • 65. Shape Algebra
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  • 67. Making Solids
          Word ... PDF
  • 69. Tricubes
          Word ... PDF
  • 70. Symmetric Shapes
          Word ... PDF
  • 71. Algebra Through Geometry
          Word ... PDF
  • 75. What's It Worth?
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  • 77. Tricube Constructions A
          Word ... PDF
  • 83. Racetrack
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  • 90. Tricube Constructions B
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  • 103. Four Cube Houses
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  • 108. How Many Squares?
          Word ... PDF
  • 111. Square Numbers
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  • 115. Dividing Shapes
          Word ... PDF
  • 133. Win At The Fair
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  • 135. Famous Mathematicians
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  • 139. Squound
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  • 144. Pascal's Triangle In Asia
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  • 164. Symmetric Tiles
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  • 168. Mirror Patterns 3
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  • 178. Match Triangles
          Word ... PDF
  • 179. Unseen Triangles
          Word ... PDF
  • 180. Making Monuments
          Word ... PDF
  • 181. Pointy Fences
          Word ... PDF
  • 186. Tetrahedron Triangles
          Word ... PDF
  • 196. Cross & Square
          Word ... PDF
  • 234. Growing Tricubes
          Word ... PDF
  • 237. Trisquares
          Word ... PDF

Research Support


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.

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