Task Centre News December 2009 / January 2010 Best wishes to you all for a peaceful family Christmas, a happy New Year celebration and a great holiday!

1332 tasks placed in schools during November. 320,338 placed since the project began in July 1992. We offer an email news service from each of the three key projects linked to this site. If you would like to receive updates from the Task Centre Project, Maths300 or Calculating Changes send an email to doug@blackdouglas.com.au: In the subject line write Subscribe Maths. In the body of message state which projects you want to subscribe to, or simply write Subscribe All. Add your name and preferred email address. Please feel free to distribute this information.

In this month's News you will find: Tasks of the Month Task 101, Pyramid Puzzle Task 102, Crazy Animals

• Tasks of the Month
  Two new cameos this month.
  • Pyramid Puzzle is a 3D spatial challenge that leads to extensive number pattern and algebra, much of it appropriate to senior secondary classes.
  • Crazy Animals begins with finding the number of combinations of head, body and legs to make a set of crazy animals but grows to include lots of work in combination theory, number patterns, generalisations, algebra and probability.
      
  Click a photo to access its cameo, or access all current cameos through the Link List below.

• Link List
  • Task Cameo Library (106 tasks listed)

• Did you miss the November News?
  If so you missed information about:
  1. An article from Steve Watson, In Praise of Working Mathematically
  2. Swedish Visitors in Australian Schools
  3. Contributions from St. Francis Xavier College, Berwick, Bacchus Marsh Grammar, and MacKillop College, Swan Hill
  4. Professional learning opportunities for 2010
  5. Iceberg Information about two Tasks of the Month (Tasks 99, 100)
  6. ...and more...

Keep smiling,
Doug.

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