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One of the exciting things about kids having easy access to Poly Plug is that they often invent their own games. The games may not be directly related to learning mathematics, but the skills and processes required to design, trial and modify your own game support and extend the development of literacy and numeracy.
- Harry's Holes
- West Ulverstone Primary School, Tasmania
Jan Mansfield teaches a Composite Year 3 & 4 class and is involved in a professional development program called Changing Places that has resourced the school with sets of Poly Plug (among other things) to support a shift to a more inclusive, hands-on, problem solving approach to mathematics. The children designed the games in this link, wrote out the rules and published them as web pages. The link here is based entirely on their work.
- Mathematics Task Centre
A task has three lives and one is as a whole class investigation. In this context teachers model how a mathematician works. To engage this life there needs to be enough copies of the concrete material. For many tasks, Poly Plug can provide that material. Poly Plug & Tasks details these investigations.
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- Other Problem Solving Activities
- Recording Tools
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