OUTDOOR+Maths

Lots of ideas for developing Maths Activity days, and Maths Trails
What do the students say ?

A possible collaboration idea with ACU

Additional research from Australian educators about the importance of getting students hooked on to Maths in Stage 4; also about the importance of hooking careers into the picture. The Executive Summary is a very powerful read.

Enterprise Education lots of practical ideas for Mathematics - look in both the primary and secondary books provided on the home/ first page of this wiki









gives an idea that could be followed through with Museums, Galleries in the local area from Parramatta to Penrith. Does the Sydney water Board have a Maths Trail for warragamba dam? The Fire Museum at penrith etc

an example of a students workbooklet

a fabulous book - I'll send a ppt copy of it later this week.

Paul Rochfort at McCarthy College, Emu Plains is really good at devising Maths Activity Days. He ran a pd day on how to do it as a Focus on learning Project a few years back. He'd be happy to help out.

One of the perks when a school gets a MATHS300 subscription is access to the following : [|Maths on The Move] The 6 day course would be wonderful pd for the Maths department; the one day options are terrific too! We could join other secondary schools in the Numeracy Project together to share the costs.