Professional Development

• Mathematics Centre is 100% professional learning.
• We collect and retell stories of success illustrating that: All students can learn to work like a mathematician in classrooms engineered to fascinate, captivate and absorb learners.

Self-directed Professional Learning Opportunities

eTask Package

             Leader's support (preparation, notes, slides etc.) for an introductory workshop and all print materials necessary
             to build, over time, your own hands-on problem solving Task Library with up to 241 tasks using your own
             concrete materials. Parents and representative students can be part of the team.

Working Mathematically with Infants & Maths With Attitude

• 20 weeks planning in each of K-2 ... 25 weeks planning in each of 3-10.
• Includes assessment tools and approaches.
• Synthesises with any formal curriculum document.
• A unique set of 20 hands-on tasks is assumed to be available in each MWA manual.
• Often teachers build the task making in the eTask Package workshop around a chosen MWA manual.
• Poly Plug essential for WMI and enhances parts of MWA.
• Maths300 membership enhances the planning at all year level.

Working Mathematically with Infants ... Years K - 2

Maths With Attitude ... Years 3 - 10

• Click the Year Level for a zipped file of all manuals in that set.
• Click a name to reveal only that particular manual.

             Years 3 & 4 ... Number & Computation ... Pattern & Algebra ... Space & Logic ... Chance & Measurement

             Years 5 & 6 ... Number & Computation ... Pattern & Algebra ... Space & Logic ... Chance & Measurement

             Years 7 & 8 ... Number & Computation ... Pattern & Algebra ... Space & Logic ... Chance & Measurement

             Years 9 & 10 ... Number & Computation ... Pattern & Algebra ... Space & Logic ... Chance & Measurement

Picture Puzzles

• Click the menu title for a zipped file of all Picture Puzzles in that menu.
• Click any Picture Puzzle title to reveal its slide show.
• For best effect, choose 'Yes' if asked about full screen.
• Ctrl L toggles in and out of full screen.

Number & Computation A ... Years 2 - 6(8)

        Uncover Counting to reveal the...

             6 Times Table ... 7 Times Table ... 8 Times Table ... 9 Times Table ... 10 Times Table

Number & Computation B ... Years 2 - 6(8)

         Choose your own Times Tables Torture...

             TTT 2/4 Times ... TTT 4/8 Times ... TTT 3/6 Times ... TTT 3/9 Times ... TTT 5/7 Times ... TTT 9/10 Times

Number & Computation C ... Years 2 - 8

         Choose the whole that makes...

             Eighths ... Tenths ... Ninths ... Fifteenths ... Eighteenths

Pattern & Algebra A ... Years 4 - 12

             How Many Squares? ... How Many Triangles? ... Square Numbers ... Staircases ... Tetrahedron Triangles

Pattern & Algebra B ... Years 4 - 10

             4 Arm Shapes ... Garden Beds ... Lining Up ... Match Triangles ... Unseen Triangles

Shape & Measurement A ... Years 2 - 10

             Measuring w Sphinx ... Measuring w Trisquares ... Sphinx Shapes ... Triangle Perimeters ... Trisquare Shapes

Shape & Space A ... Years 2 - 11

             Building Views ... Keith's Kubes ... Soma Cube ... Tricube Building A ... Tricube Building B

Exploring Teaching Craft

• Resources to help you grow your Teaching Craft Tool Kit.
• Dip in and out when you're looking to try something new in your classroom.

• Explore the pedagogy of a Poster Problem Clinic.

Introducing Professor Morris ... Puzzle Posters ... Puzzle Slides

• Explore the pedagogy of Menu Maths.
• Designed to be used with Poly Plug.

Menu Maths @ Cafe Conundrum

• Explore mathematical reasoning without school mathematics content in Strategy Game contexts.
• Designed to be used with Poly Plug.

Poly Plug Game Pack

• Mini-tutorials help you explore the pedagogy embedded in a wide range of Maths300 lessons.
• Find a tutorial randomly, or by year level or by content.
• Only relevant if you have Maths300 membership.

Maths300 ETuTE

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