Mathematics Task Centre: Site Map

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Site Map
Find your way through this world of alternatives to text-based learning.

Our site map acts as a Table of Contents. Scroll through it to find the section or particular link which interests you, then click.

From most pages you can easily return here using the Navigation Bar on the top of that page.

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Big Picture

Overview of our:

Maths on the Move

Our 'off-the-shelf' professional development programs in depth:

Background
Objective
Principles
Workshop Library
- 6 Day Courses
  - Engineering 'aha' Moments K-8 (Primary - Number focus)
  - Engineering 'aha' Moments 5-10 (Secondary - Algebra focus)
- 1 Day Courses
  Working Mathematically Flagships
  Concepts & Skills in Context
  Unit Plans & Assessment
  - Assessment, Recording & Reporting in Mathematics
  - Working Mathematically in... four separate workshops in four curriculum strands
  - Working Mathematically with Very Little
Current Courses

PD Partnerships

We also tailor programs to suit your needs and use a variety of other models for professional learning. This link is a slide show of possibilities. Navigate the slides with the arrows on the screen.

Professional Development Partnerships

Maths Tasks

Information about hands-on problem solving tasks and how to use them:

News
... news for this month and a history of news back to October 2001.
What is a task?
... a very brief history of tasks in schools since the first task centre was established in March 1977.
Principles
Task Cameos
... & other Iceberg Information that supports teachers to ask the questions that deepen the investigation.
Integrating Tasks
- Learning Features Checklist (PDF file)
- Models & Structures teachers have designed to regularly integrate hands-on problem solving into their curriculum. All these structures are included somewhere in the MWA suite of kits.
Poster Problem Clinic
Ordering Resources
... catalogue, costs & ordering of tasks, tasks in kits and support resources.
Maths With Attitude
... comprehensive, integrated, flexible kits based around Tasks, Maths300 and Planners that offer up to 25 weeks of investigative work in each year from Year 3 to Year 10.
Library Kit
... a resource to support 'maths around the kitchen table', ie: mathematical problem solving at home with the family.
Documents
- Task Centre Manual (20 page summary - PDF file)
- Recording Sheets for tasks
- a wide range of other documents that support your curriculum and our workshops, provide research support for learning to work like a mathematician and review our sister site Maths300
Photographs
- Picture the Possibilities (PDF file) - a photographic stimulus for teaching with tasks
- Recording & Publishing - photos and slideshows showing student work
- other photographs showing tasks in action in several schools
A Sense of History
... our project began in July 1992 and this section records snippets from history back as far as an article in the Times Education Supplement in June 1994.
Web Sites
... links to a few other sites that support learning to work like a mathematician in best practice classrooms.
School Visits
... places you could visit (on three continents) to see tasks in action; your school can be added here.

Task Cameos

Task Cameos
... a growing list of detailed information about each task including reasoning, answers, extensions and converting the task to a whole class investigation.

Ordering Resources

Full details of tasks, kits of tasks and support resources and how to order them through our world-wide service. Many options to suit a wide range of educational and budgetary requirements at all levels of primary and secondary schools.

Ordering Resources
- Task Catalogue
- Price List
- How to Order
- Order from Outside Australia
- ...and heaps more about each particular resource

Maths300

An introduction to our sister site which provides lesson plans and some software to support teachers wishing to model how a mathematician works through whole class investigations.

Maths300

Maths With Attitude

Full details about our collection of 16 comprehensive, integrated, flexible kits that provide 25 weeks of investigative work for each Year from 3 to 10. Each kit contains 20 tasks, a CD-ROM of lesson plans from Maths300 and Planners with week by week, lesson by lesson directions for TWO year levels. Membership of Maths300 is a pre-requisite of purchase.

Maths With Attitude

Upgrading
... established collections of tasks to Maths With Attitude kits.
Enhancing
... existing Maths With Attitude kits with additional tasks and Maths300 lessons.

What's in each kit?

Primary Level

Years 3 & 4

Years 5 & 6

Secondary Level

Years 7 & 8

Years 9 & 10

Calculating Changes

An introduction to our sister site for primary teachers focuses on engineering 'aha' moments in number as a way of enhancing students' number sense beyond what is normally expected. Preferred materials for this project are Poly Plug and calculators.

Calculating Changes

Poly Plug

Our most popular support resource, probably because of its classroom friendliness. Preferred for Calculating Changes, used to convert many Tasks and Maths300 lessons to whole class investigations and it has its own resource book of Strategy Games.

Poly Plug

Working Mathematically

This is what learning mathematics is about - learning to work like a mathematician, not merely practising the skills of a mathematician.

Working Mathematically
- Working Mathematically Process
- Notes from an Inspector's Notebook
- From Teachers & Schools
- Working Mathematically Curriculum Scaffold
- Working Mathematically Anthem

Sphinx Album

An anthology of investigations and ideas contributed from classrooms all over the world exploring the depths of Task 166, Sphinx. Every task is in our collection because it has the potential to be expanded in this way.

You are advised not to enter this link unless you have plenty of time to play around - it can become absorbing!

Sphinx

Research & Stories

Formal research and teacher stories to support the proposition that in best practice classrooms where students are learning to work like a mathematician, the students develop:

better problem solving ability,
better mathematical skills, and
better literacy.

Research & Stories
- INISSS & other research
- Teacher Stories

Indigenous Students

INISSS research learnt from and built on successes with Indigenous students which began to show from 1993 when teachers in Northern Territory were involved in a professional development project involving the use of Tasks in remote communities. Tasks have also been successfully introduced to Native American schools.

Indigenous Students
and links to research and stories in the section above which involve Indigenous students.

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