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Documents

This page is a storehouse to help you readily find the document you need. Most documents listed below are also available in other parts of the site. Documents are stored below in these categories:

Red Square  Curriculum Support
Working Mathematically Process, Learning Features Checklist, Task Centre Manual, Recording Sheets, Assessment Forms, Task Centre Support Services, Working Mathematically Curriculum Scaffold, and other classroom level documents.

Red Square  Workshop Support
Task Centre Manual, Agenda (Introductory workshop), Participation Certificate, Workshop Evaluation.

Red Square  Research Support
Reviews of Improving Numeracy for Indigenous Secondary School Students (INISSS) project, Mathematics Home Lending project .

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

Green Line

Curriculum Support

Working Mathematically Process, Learning Features Checklist, Task Centre Manual, Recording Sheets, Assessment Forms, Task Centre Support Services, Working Mathematically Curriculum Scaffold, and other classroom level documents.
  • Working Mathematically Process
    One page description of what it means to work like a mathematician. Can be pasted into a student's maths journal, or form the basis of a display - or both. Also includes a 1-page outline for teachers of of the professional development background of the Task Centre Project.
  • Learning Features Checklist
    One page list of teaching craft features which encourage learning. The list was developed with the input of many teachers in many workshop situations. It can assist both the planning and review of lessons constructed around any of the three lives of a task.
  • Task Centre Manual
    A 75-page Acrobat Reader PDF file (size ~3Mb) which accompanies all orders of 50 or more tasks. Key principles, elements and issues are highlighted to inform schools thinking about integrating tasks into their curriculum. Links are made throughout the manual to web pages that extend the information on the printed page.
  • Recording Sheets
    Some task cards list a recording sheet as part of the materials. These are delivered as part of any purchase of 50 or more tasks. However, if yours have been mislaid you can find new masters here.

    • Complete Set ... Word '97 document ... PDF document.
      These files are each 1Mb, or select your own from the list.

    • 15. Domino Trails
            Word '97 document ... PDF document
    • 24. Squares Around Squares
            Word '97 document ... PDF document
    • 42. Triangles Around Triangles
            Word '97 document ... PDF document
    • 48. How Many Triangles?
            Word '97 document ... PDF document
    • 65. Shape Algebra
            Word '97 document ... PDF document
    • 67. Making Solids
            Word '97 document ... PDF document
    • 69. Tricubes
            Word '97 document ... PDF document
    • 70. Symmetric Shapes
            Word '97 document ... PDF document
    • 71. Algebra Through Geometry
            Word '97 document ... PDF document
    • 75. What's It Worth?
            Word '97 document ... PDF document
    • 77. Tricube Constructions A
            Word '97 document ... PDF document
    • 83. Racetrack
            Word '97 document ... PDF document
    • 90. Tricube Constructions B
            Word '97 document ... PDF document
    • 103. Four Cube Houses
            Word '97 document ... PDF document
    • 108. How Many Squares?
            Word '97 document ... PDF document
    • 111. Square Numbers
            Word '97 document ... PDF document
     
    • 115. Dividing Shapes
            Word '97 document ... PDF document
    • 133. Win At The Fair
            Word '97 document ... PDF document
    • 135. Famous Mathematicians
            Word '97 document ... PDF document
    • 139. Squound
            Word '97 document ... PDF document
    • 144. Pascal's Triangle In Asia
            Word '97 document ... PDF document
    • 164. Symmetric Tiles
            Word '97 document ... PDF document
    • 168. Mirror Patterns 3
            Word '97 document ... PDF document
    • 178. Match Triangles
            Word '97 document ... PDF document
    • 179. Unseen Triangles
            Word '97 document ... PDF document
    • 180. Making Monuments
            Word '97 document ... PDF document
    • 181. Pointy Fences
            Word '97 document ... PDF document
    • 186. Tetrahedron Triangles
            Word '97 document ... PDF document
    • 196. Cross & Square
            Word '97 document ... PDF document
    • 234. Growing Tricubes
            Word '97 document ... PDF document
    • 237. Trisquares
            Word '97 document ... PDF document
  • Assessment Forms
    To use following a significant discussion with students about a task they are working on: Donated by Jodi Wilson & Maria Antoniou, Mt. Eliza Secondary College for use either when using tasks or whole class investigations. See Assessment for more assessment ideas.
  • Support Services
    One page overview of the breadth of our professional development services.
  • Working Mathematically Curriculum Scaffold
    One page capturing the big picture of the concept of building a Working Mathematically Curriculum. Read in conjunction with the Working Mathematically Process.
  • Puzzle Olympics
    A sample Record Sheet for a Puzzle Olympics challenge. This is provided as a Word document only so you can edit it to suit your purpose. See Integrating Tasks.

Workshop Support

Professional development programs are available to support the use of task centres. These documents might be used in those sessions. In addition to items listed, participants may also like copies of documents in the Curriculum Support section above.
  • Task Centre Manual
    A 75-page Acrobat Reader PDF file (size ~3Mb) which accompanies all orders of 50 or more tasks. Key principles, elements and issues are highlighted to inform schools thinking about integrating tasks into their curriculum. Links are made throughout the manual to web pages that extend the information on the printed page.
  • Introductory Workshop Agenda
    A 1-page document to guide (not prescribe) the first task centre workshop day.
  • Participation Certificate
    A 1-page document to be printed on coloured paper or card, signed by the consultant and presented to participants as a record of their participation in what is an intensive in-service day.
  • Workshop Evaluation
    A 2-page document seeking evaluative responses from participants as to the value of the workshop day.

Research Support

Investigations into the learning value of using tasks and learning to work like a mathematician.

Green Line

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