| Each task is 'the tip of an iceberg'. This staff has planned that at least once a month they will work as a whole class to explore beyond the tip. |
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| This teacher is accessing the whole class lesson of 4 & 20 Blackbirds (#62) by changing the small counters with blackbird stickers that are in the task, into photocopied blackbirds using a picture from a clip art library. A grid marked on the playground substitutes as the Royal Garden card. Here the students have found one solution. |
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How many solutions are there? How will we know when we have found them all? |
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Maths300 provides teaching notes which enable teachers to explore the iceberg of many tasks to model the process of Working Mathematically. This teacher is choosing a variety of pedagogy, as described in the notes, to explore Dice Differences (Task #34, M300#3). First, whole class demonstration with large dice. |
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| Second, small group exploration to gather first hand class data. |
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| Third, demonstrating the power of the software to collect data much faster; the computer being used as an exploratory tool. |
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| Fourth, small groups collecting more data with the help of the computer. Hypotheses are made and tested. Note the personal recording of the experiments. The computer doesn't do everything. |
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