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Maths With Attitude is designed to help teachers of Years 3-10 create:
happy, healthy, cheerful, productive, inspiring classrooms
in which students learn to work like a mathematician.
They support the objectives of any official curriculum document with a Working Mathematically component and, when used in sequence with Working Mathematically with Infants, offer a real alternative to text-based mathematics learning through all compulsory school years.
 MWA in Brief
Features of MWA Kits
Kit Details
Teacher Evaluations
Prices & Ordering
Enhancing Maths With Attitude
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One of 16 kits available from Years 3-10
Working Mathematically with Infants
All children at all levels can learn to work like a mathematician. Working Mathematically with Infants supports teachers of Years K-2 to begin this process. WMI integrates with MWA.
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Upgrading to Maths With Attitude
If you have tasks in your school you may be able to upgrade to Maths With Attitude kits.
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In each Maths With Attitude kit
- Hands-on tasks
- Whole class investigations
- Integrated software
- Skill development in context
are drawn together in a detailed week by week schedule that:
- supports all strands of the curriculum
- dovetails with textbook use
- encourages inclusion of the teacher's personal best practice.
Based on the attitude that all children can learn to work like a mathematician in best practice classrooms. MWA provides 25 weeks of hands-on, small group and whole class investigative curriculum for every year from Year 3 to Year 10.
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- Kits are specific to year level and curriculum strand.
- Maths300 resources are included to illustrate how teachers have modelled the Working Mathematically process.
- Tasks are included to offer students an invitation to apply the model for themselves.
- Each manual includes a week by week plan for integrating the tasks and lessons into a Working Mathematically curriculum.
- Trial schools have shown that a curriculum integrating both can lead to substantial success for students.
- Self-directed professional development is supported by the printed manual and the Maths300 lesson plans.
- Convenient, compact and complete.
There are 8 kits available for Years 3 - 6 and a different 8 kits available for Years 7 - 10.
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This year we have programmed a range of Tasks/Maths300 lessons across Years 7-10. The level of enthusiasm amongst staff and students is encouraging and we are appreciative of all of the work you have put into the Maths With Attitude kits - they are fantastic!! Thanks once again for all of your hard work - it is making maths relevant and meaningful to lots of students!!
...Michael Swanborough, Flinders Christian College
MWA is designed to integrate with your overall year's work. Like the slices of a pie the pieces may be shuffled to create your own balance within the whole. The Planners provide a clear idea of what will fit into a week, and how many weeks it would take to make good use of the resources in a kit.
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Examples
Years
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One teacher remarked:
This is brilliant. I have been trying to use a combination of tasks and whole class investigations, but I have always felt it was a bit piecemeal. Now I can organise a much better problem solving curriculum.
Each kit includes 20 tasks, software, teacher's manual and teacher's
CD-ROM. Kits are only available to members of Maths300. Updates to software or lessons plans are supplied through the Maths300 site. The CD-ROM contains appropriate lessons extracted from Maths300 so you can begin using your kit without any on-line issues. The manual includes a week by week planner.
Each kit provides extensive support for self-directed professional development. Many schools extend this learning further with the assistance of a consultant.
Primary Level
Click a title to see a list
of its tasks and lessons.
Years 3 & 4
Years 5 & 6
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Secondary Level
Click a title to see a list
of its tasks and lessons.
Years 7 & 8
Years 9 & 10
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- Changing Places, Tasmania (Years 3 & 4)
Comments from teachers in 18 schools that trialed Number & Computation.
- Wade High School, Griffith, NSW (Years 7 & 8)
This school used the Space & Logic kit as a four week unit to begin Year 7. Magic was the description offered by their HoD. Take a look at the photos of student displays and ponder the additional benefits of students being able to 'show their stuff' like this at the beginning of their high school career.
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Maths300 Members ... $450 per kit
Non-members ... Subscribe to Maths300 before ordering
To order, use your school purchase order, or our Order Form.
Notes
- Please quote your Maths300 membership number when ordering.
- Please specify which of the 16 different kits and how many of each.
- If you are a Maths300 member and already have tasks in your school you may not need to purchase complete kits. You might only need to:
- Talk with Ina Koetsier, Distribution Manager, before ordering.
- Audit your tasks against the lists in the kits above.
- Purchase the missing tasks plus manuals and CDs.
Contact Ina on (03) 9726 8316 or inak@blackdouglas.com.au
- MWA Summary ... PDF file
The photo shows a Maths With Attitude professional development day at Investigator College, South Australia. Teachers are mapping the use of their MWA kits into curriculum plans across their Goolwa and Victor Harbour campuses.
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