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:   Curriculum Support Find: Learning Features Checklist, Task Centre Support Services, Task Centre Manual (Summary), Working Mathematically Process, Working Mathematically Curriculum Scaffold, Assessment Forms, Recording Sheets for those tasks which list them and other classroom level documents.   Workshop Support Find: Task Centre Manual (Summary), Agenda (Introductory workshop), Participation Certificate, Workshop Evaluation.   Research Support Find: Reviews of Improving Numeracy for Indigenous Secondary School Students (INISSS) project, Mathematics Home Lending project .   Maths300 Reviews Find: Reviews from The Classroom Connection and Australian Primary Mathematics Teacher.

Task 15, Domino Trails, Record Sheet

• 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.
• Support Services
  One page overview of the breadth of our professional development services.
• Task Centre Manual in Summary
  A 20-page Acrobat Reader PDF file (size 800Kb) which is an extract from the 69-page Manual 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. Further information, especially with respect to ensuring the on-going use of tasks in the curriculum, can be found in Principles.
• 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.
• 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.
• Assessment Forms
  To use following a significant discussion with students about a task they are working on:
  • Teacher assessment (PDF file)
  • Student self-assessment (PDF file)
  Donated by Jodi Wilson & Maria Antoniou, Mt. Eliza Secondary College for use either when using tasks or whole class investigations.
  • Year 8 Assessment Rubric (PDF file)
  See Assessment for more assessment ideas.
• 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.
• 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

• Task Centre Manual in Summary
  A 20-page Acrobat Reader PDF file (size 800Kb) which is an extract from the 69-page Manual 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. The extract, in conjunction with web access will guide the workshop. The full Manual provides additional in depth information for both the workshop and later study.
• 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.

• INISSS Report
  Official report of the researchers evaluating the Tasmanian project titled Improving Numeracy for Indigenous Secondary School Students. Also see Do Task Work? link on the left.
• Mathematics Home Lending Project
  Official report of the British project to develop a home/school link, especially for gifted and talented students through the use of the Library Kit for Home Lending. Also see the links Do Tasks Work?, Library Kit and Integrating Tasks

Maths300 Reviews

• The Classroom Connection
  Review of Starting Maths300 from Research Publications.
• Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom
  Review of Starting Maths300 from Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers.

  Starting Maths300 is web site membership and a CD-ROM of the first 50 lessons. This is a subset of the broader resource Starting Maths300 & Tasks which also includes 31 hands-on tasks. This kit includes a discount on membership and tasks. See Resources & Ordering.