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29 August 2016

It's National Literacy and Numeracy Week!

29 August 29 – 4 September 2016

Get involved in the free activities!

Who Won it? uses statistics in sport as a means of exploring data analysis. The activity centres on a contest between students to discover the final winner of a fictitious championship in NRL or AFL.

Which Way? comprises four spatial activities focusing on directional language. Students are encouraged to think logically, utilising a variety of tools to find their way and to guide others.

Thinkers are Winners ‘is a series of strategy games designed to focus on the development of logical thought, mathematical reasoning and the ability to explain your thought processes.

Catch-an-Idea is your chance to catch a maths moment! Whether you’re indoors or outside, looking at patterns or playing sports, in the kitchen or in outer space; maths helps make sense of the world! Students photograph a mathematics moment, caption it and share it (digitally or as a poster around the school). For example, take a photo of someone measuring ingredients, tiling a roof or a football player kicking a goal. Math is everywhere!

AAMT would love to highlight your 'Catch-an-Idea' on the AAMT website. Send a link, graphic, text or video to nlnw@aamt.edu.au.

Go to www.literacyandnumeracy.gov.au.

Maths Adds

Maths Adds is a career publication which features job advertisements that have recently appeared online. In addition to the newly-released 19th edition (available as PDF or hard copy), there is now the Maths Adds website which features over 100 job ads illustrating mathematical and statistical career pathways, as well as profiles of students and employees, links to industry graduate programs and more.

Go to http://mathsadds.amsi.org.au.

[featured resource] Motivational Maths: Lesson Starters and Investigations

Paul Swan

A collection of over 70 activities that allow students to investigate how and why mysterious mathe-magical tricks work. Topics include number patterns, algebraic reasoning, sequencing and others, along with almost endless opportunities for students to practise computational skills. The activities are easy to use in the classroom, whether as a lesson starter, to introduce some topics in algebra, or as an extended investigation.

#RIC004  $38.00 * AAMT members: $30.40 *

www.aamt.edu.au/Webshop/Entire-catalogue/Motivational-Maths

Other news

The articles below were posted to AAMT's Facebook and LinkedIn pages and Twitter feed, and link to various sites:

How the Mathematics of Algebraic Topology Is Revolutionizing Brain Science

How to Debug a STEM Lesson Plan

Project-Based Learning: 7 Ways to Make It Work

Babies' spatial reasoning predicts later math skills

Creating App Lists for Families

Gaming in the classroom: what we can learn from Pokémon Go technology

Virtual Reality Classrooms Another Way Chinese Kids Gain an Edge

A-level and GCSE questions to be ‘crowdsourced’ from teachers, exam board says

Inspiring Math Learning Through Coding

Maths, story and dance: an Indigenous approach to teaching

Dig in: Turing and the mysterious mathematics of sunflowers

Google's top education expert predicts what schools will look like in 50 years

The maths behind ‘impossible’ never-repeating patterns

A weary teacher's most spirited lesson

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