Starting Maths300 & Tasks

Starting Maths300 CD-ROM

31 hands-on tasks

Membership and tasks are discounted in this package. Professional development is available to support its introduction.

Each task comes in a sturdy press-seal bag and contains a laminated problem solving card and enough equipment for two students to explore the problem. The CD-ROM can be loaded onto the school server for convenient staff access. It contains the first 50 lessons from Maths300, including those that extend tasks in the kit. Some of these include software as part of the extension.

Starting Maths300 & Tasks is an excellent way to begin constructing a Working Mathematically curriculum.

Maths300 lessons support teachers to model how a mathematician works.

Each task is an invitation to students to apply the model for themselves.

Skills are developed in context.

Additionally, through student contributions to the investigations, teachers become aware of directions for subsequent skill-based 'tool box' lessons. Driving skill development in this way makes such lessons more relevant, and therefore more acceptable, to students.
With Starting Maths300 & Tasks, primary and secondary teachers can build trial units which centre on learning to work like a mathematician in a chosen curriculum strand. The image shown is a straightforward reminder to juggle time allowed for each component.
Tasks included are listed below using this code:
Task Name (M300 Lesson Number, Task Number).
* indicates the task has companion software in Maths300 lesson.

Win At The Fair* (1, 133 )

Dice Differences* (3, 34)

First Down The Mountain* (4, 87)

Greedy Pig* (5, 200)

Have A Hexagon* (6, 53)

Bob's Buttons* (10, 123)

Garden Beds* (16, 147)

Eric The Sheep (17, 45)

Addition Totals (18, 8)

Unseen Triangles (20, 179)

Lining Up (21, 11)

Crossing The River (23, 173)

Sphinx (25, 166)

Highest Number* (26, 127)

Game of 31* (27, 86)

Number Tiles* (28, 43)

Steps* (29, 176)

Truth Tiles* (30, 30)

Fay's Nines* (31, 54)

Walk The Plank* (32, 131)

Peg & Tape Fractions* (33, 205)

Soft Drink Crates (36, 211)

Painted Cubes (38, 160)

Painted Rods (39, 152)

4 Arm Shapes (40, 154)

Heads & Legs* (41, 14)

Jumping Kangaroos (42, 182)

Triangle Area* (44, 187)

Police Line Up (46, 119)

Farmyard Friends (47, 129)

Crazy Animals* (57, 102)
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The companion lesson for Peg & Tape Fractions is titled Fraction Estimation
The companion lesson for Triangle Area is titled Area of a Triangle.