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March 2016

Red Square Some Tasks Still Available

Red Square Class Set Materials

Red Square Lunching With Jumping Kangaroos

Red Square Tasks of the Month
Task 227, Volume Line Up
Task 228, Koala Karts

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• Class Set Materials

  Mathematics Centre will continue to supply these materials as class sets:

  • Poly Plug
  • Rotagrams

  The following remnant stock is currently available until sold out:

  • 1 x class sets of Pentagon Triangles (foam)
    Last class set ever for Maths300 Lesson 134, Pentagon Triangles.

  • 1 x class sets of Tricubes (foam)
    Last class set ever for Maths300 Lesson 165, Surface Area With Tricubes.

  • 5 x class sets of Trisquares (foam)
    Last five class sets ever for Tasks 237 & 238, Trisquares & Growing Trisquares.

  • 50 x Shape Algebra foam panels
    Last two class sets ever for Task 65, Shape Algebra.

  • 100 x Algebra Through Geometry foam panels (Tak Tiles)
    Last four class sets ever for Task 71, Algebra Through Geometry.

  • 45 x Making Fractions 1 foam panels
    Last two class sets ever for Task 222, Making Fractions 1.

  • 25 x Making Fractions 2 foam panels
    Last class set ever available for Task 177, Making Fractions 2.

  • 20 x Making Fractions 3 foam panels
    Last two class sets ever for Task 199, Making Fractions 3.

  • 2cm Wooden Cubes, assorted colours
    - used in Tasks 104, 111, 213 and others

  • Pawns (bags of 100), assorted colours, 2 sizes
    - used in the tasks shown and others
    - perfect, for example, for class sets of Task 173, Crossing The River 1

  See Link List below for links to the tasks mentioned here.

Link List

• Mathematics Centre Order Form (PDF)
• Poly Plug
• Rotagrams are used in Task 214, Angle Estimation
• Pentagon Triangles
• Tricubes are used in:
  • Tricubes
  • Tricube Constructions A
  • Tricube Constructions B
  • Surface Area With Tricubes
  • Growing Tricubes
• Trisquares are used in:
  • Trisquares
  • Growing Trisquares
• Shape Algebra
• Algebra Through Geometry
• Making Fractions 1
• Making Fractions 2
• Making Fractions 3
• Wooden Cubes are used in many tasks including:
  • Building Views
  • Square Numbers
  • Chains
• Pawns are used in many tasks including:
  • The Frog Pond
  • Have A Hexagon
  • First Down The Mountain
  • Crossing The River 1
• Cube Tube
• Jumping Kangaroos
• PD from MC
• Engineering 'aha' Moments in Algebra
• Task Cameo Library (234 tasks listed)
• Task Cameo Content Finder
• Calculating Changes Content Finder
• Maths300

• Did you miss the Previous News?
  If so you missed information about:
  1. 2016 Watershed Year
  2. Class Set Materials
  3. Kangaroos Have Been Around A Long Time
  4. Minions & Bananas
  5. Iceberg Information about four Tasks of the Month
     (Tasks 223, 224, 225, 226)
  6. ...and more...

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• You can connect Tasks to their Maths300 companion lesson using Tasks & Maths300 (a PDF file).
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• All these links, and more, appear in Working with Mathematics Centre (a PDF file).