Poly Plug

A classroom friendly resource with multiple uses. A preferred material of Calculating Changes. A support resource for the Task Centre and Maths300 because it allows easy conversion of many hands-on tasks to whole class investigations.   Poly Plug & Tasks   Poly Plug & Calculating Changes   Working Mathematically with Infants   Menu Maths @ Café Conundrum   Poly Plug Game Pack   Prices & Ordering   Poly Plug on NRICH, UK NRICH is one of the world's top mathematics education sites. NRICH leaders Lynne McClure and Liz Woodham were introduced to Poly Plug at a conference workshop. As a result they developed and trialed the Poly Plug activities in the next column. Each activity includes teachers' notes, a Flash interactive that can be run on your electronic whiteboard directly from the site and various print materials.   Interactive Whiteboard Slides Kel Hathaway, Curriculum Officer Learning Technologies, Catholic Education Office Canberra Goulburn, has prepared a set of Poly Plug IWB slides to complement various activities. This format is a global format which should import into any IWB software. You will need to download, unzip and then import from within your IWB software. Kel has also provided a Promethean Planet link at which you can see thumbnails of the slides and download them in that specific format.

Converting Task 235, Tables for 25, to a whole class investigation. Wallan Secondary College, Victoria   All Change Three levels of interactive challenge. For Calculating Changes Members this activity NRICHes Fill The Board. Spot Thirteen A variation of Task 9, Row Points, which is probably best used as an introduction to the task. Poly Plug Pattern Extends a pattern beyond one board. Vicky's Problem from the Calculating Changes Free Tour could be an introduction to this activity. Also, CCh Members could build a pattern unit using these ideas and Pattern Boards, Rory's Pattern Game and Uncover Counting Poly Plug Rectangles This is a variation and extension of Task 114, Where Is The Rectangle?, which offers several levels of challenge in the Teachers' Notes and video from classrooms. The activity is also related to Poly Plug Battleships and Copy Cats in the CCh Free Tour.

Prices & Ordering

Black Douglas Professional Education Services 8 Greenbank Drive Mooroolbark, Vic, 3138 Australia Tel: +61 3 9726 8316 Fax: +61 3 9727 4644 or use our Order Form. Poly Plug      1 - 24 sets ... $13.50 each      25 - 99 sets ... $12.25 each      100+ sets ... $11 each (also price to Calculating Changes members) Resource Book ... $27.50 Game Pack ... $40 each Reproducible book and 1 plug set. Poly Plug are designed and manufactured in Australia. Swedish clients please work through Per Berggren at Kul Matematik.

Alternatively email the school's purchase order number and order details to: doug@blackdouglas.com.au Prices include GST. Delivery charges apply. Orders from outside Australia must be prepaid in Australian Dollars (AUD) by Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT). Our invoice will provide details for EFT payment. For your convenience, this Currency Converter is provided as a guide to current exchange rates. Before you order, you are invited to contact Ina Koetsier, Distribution Manager: T: +61 3 9726 8316 F: +61 3 9727 4644 inak@blackdouglas.com.au to find out the exact AUD price of your order. Additional discount may be available on very large orders.