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Maths With Attitude

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


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.

Upgrading to Maths With Attitude
If you have tasks in your school you may be able to upgrade to Maths With Attitude kits.

Victorian Schools
The Mathematical Association of Victoria provides its members with complete curriculum documents, including detailed links to all the requirements of VELS from Years 3 - 10. These documents are titled Working Mathematically in VELS: a Maths With Attitude approach.

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MWA in Brief

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.

Features of MWA Kits

  • 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.

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.

5 & 6 Number Pie
Examples
Years
5 & 6
5 & 6 Pattern Pie

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.

Kit Details

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
Secondary Level
Click a title to see a list
of its tasks and lessons.

Years 7 & 8

Years 9 & 10

Teacher Evaluations

  • 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.

Planning With MWA

 

Prices & Ordering

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

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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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