 This section of our site leads to information which guides exploration of the iceberg. Task Cameos are your starting point. Printing these cameos (they are mostly only 2 or 3 pages) and keeping them in numbered collections will encourage and support your teachers and students to make better use of your task set. Add to your Cameo Collection each month.
Printing in colour from a laser printer will produce an even more impressive document.
- Print this Cover Page to help you organise your collection.
- Tasks marked * indicate the task has a matching lesson on Maths300.
- Tasks marked ** indicate the matching lesson also has software support.
- Print this Task Catalogue...
...to see at a glance the curriculum strand(s) involved in each task and the range of year levels (2 - 10) at which it can be used. Remember, tasks can often be adapted to work for infants or senior secondary students.
Other Iceberg Sources
All that is known about the iceberg of any task has come from classrooms and it is from classrooms that we will continue to learn more about them. When you explore a new direction with your class, please tell us about it. See Contacts.
In addition to the cameos in the list on the right, more information about some tasks is supplied through:
- Library Kit
This link provides a list of all the tasks in the Library Kit for Home Lending and reveals their solutions (but not much iceberg information), so that families may access from home.
- Poly Plug & Tasks
This link explores tasks which can be converted to whole class investigations using Poly Plug.
- Sphinx Album (and the Swedish version at Sture's Site)
Task 166 is explored in incredible depth as a model for what is possible with all other tasks.
- Maths300
The richest additional source of iceberg information is the Maths300 site. This site provides extensive lesson plans, sometimes including software, to help teachers model the work of a mathematician. About half of these lessons are based on the iceberg of tasks. Those links are included in the Cameos where they exist.
Maths300 provides:
- an index which links Tasks & Maths300 investigations. If your school is not a Maths300 member, you will be invited to enter as a guest.
- Task 102, Crazy Animals as a full and free lesson plan which includes reproductions of the task materials and integrated software.
Reviews of Maths300
- Task Dossiers
Task dossiers support teachers. It is recommended that each school develop their own version, however, much of the information can be drawn from this page and Maths300. Some schools find value in storing these as electronic files on the school Intranet.
Please visit again.
Task Cameos are added regularly. If you join our eNews list you will be informed as new tasks are added to this list.
Also, please contribute task-related stories as they unfold in your classroom.
Task-related stories have been added to:
- Task 3, Doug's Tablecloth
- Task 9, Row Points
- Task 11, Lining Up
- Task 13, The Frog Pond
- Task 14, Heads & Legs
- Task 18, Same or Different
- Task 30, Truth Tiles
- Task 31 Cube Nets
- Task 45, Eric The Sheep
- Task 53, Have A Hexagon
- Task 63, Fried Rice
- Task 79, Tangram Teasers
- Task 84, Rectangle Nightmare
- Task 86, Thirty-One
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Task Cameo Library
New cameos are added regularly and publicised in our monthly eNews. If you would like to keep up to date with additions to the cameo list, submit your email address as shown here.
- Task 1, Final Eight* *
- Task 2, Cars In A Garage* *
- Task 3, Doug's Tablecloth
- Task 4, Window Frames
- Task 5, Make A Snake
- Task 6, Counter Escape* *
- Task 7, Consecutive Sums*
- Task 8, Addition Totals*
- Task 9, Row Points*
- Task 10, Find My Pattern*
- Task 11, Lining Up*
- Task 12, Matching Cards
- Task 13, The Frog Pond
- Task 14, Heads & Legs**
- Task 15, Domino Trails*
- Task 16, Octaflex
- Task 17, Truth Tiles 2
- Task 18, Same or Different**
- Task 19, Cookie Count*
- Task 20, Pack The Box
- Task 21, Tactical
- Task 22, Time Together
- Task 23, Two Colours Game
- Task 24, Squares Around Squares
(In April 2004 Task 24, Lizard Hunt was replaced by Squares Around Squares.)
- Task 25, In Between Time
- Task 26, Travelling Australia
- Task 27, Can Stack
- Task 28, Plate Triangles
- Task 29, The Farmer's Puzzles
- Task 30, Truth Tiles**
- Task 31, Cube Nets*
- Task 32, Tetrahedron Nets
- Task 33, Dominoes*
- Task 34, Dice Differences**
- Task 35, Crosses**
- Task 36, Making Triangles
- Task 37, Fraction Magic Square*
- Task 38, The Mushroom Hunt*
- Task 39, Criss-Cross Numbers
- Task 40, Diamonds & Rectangles
- Task 41, Scale Drawing
- Task 42, Triangles Around Triangles
- Task 43, Number Tiles**
- Task 44, Latin Squares
- Task 45, Eric The Sheep*
- Task 46, Duelling Dice**
- Task 47, Red & Black Card Game*
- Task 48, How Many Triangles?
- Task 49, Take A Chance*
- Task 50, Flight Departures
- Task 51, Staircase*
- Task 52, Which Floor
- Task 53, Have A Hexagon**
- Task 54, Fay's Nines**
- Task 55, Fold Up Houses
- Task 56, Challenge
- Task 57, Two Squares
- Task 58, See-Saw
- Task 59, 13 Away
- Task 60, Back To Back Building
- Task 61, Double Staircase*
- Task 62, Four and Twenty Blackbirds*
- Task 63, Fried Rice
- Task 64, Difference Btn Two Squares
- Task 65, Shape Algebra
- Task 66, Pentominoes
- Task 67, Making Solids
- Task 68, Six Square Puzzle
- Task 69, Tricubes
- Task 70, Symmetric Shapes
- Task 71, Algebra Through Geometry
- Task 72, Farmyard
- Task 73, In The Bag
- Task 74, Button Sort
- Task 75, What's It Worth?*
- Task 76, Tube Toss
- Task 77, Tricube Constructions A
- Task 78, Which View?
- Task 79, Tangram Teasers
- Task 80, A Dollar To Spend
- Task 81, Pentagon Triangles*
- Task 82, Snail Trail*
- Task 83, Racetrack
- Task 84, Rectangle Nightmare
- Task 85, Time Swing
- Task 86, Thirty-One**
- Task 87, First Down The Mountain**
- Task 88, Rice, Rice, Rice
- Task 89, Doctor Dart**
- Task 90, Tricube Constructions B
- Task 91, Pick A Box*
- Task 92, Magic Squares**
- Task 93, Leading The Blind
- Task 94, Crossing The Desert
- Task 95, Reflections
- Task 96, Networks
- Task 97, Pythagoras Rods
- Task 98, Martian Maths
- Task 99, How Many Beans?
- Task 100, Mirror Patterns 1
- Task 101, Pyramid Puzzle
- Task 102, Crazy Animals
- Task 103, Four Cube Houses
- Task 104, Building Views
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- Task 127, Highest Number 1**
- Task 161, Soma Cube 2
- Task 182, Jumping Kangaroos*
- Task 184, Reverse
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