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Best wishes to you all
for a peaceful family
Christmas, a happy
New Year celebration
and a great holiday!

December 2010 / January 2011

Red Square Cube Tube

Red Square Maths Around The Kitchen Table in UK

Red Square Addition to Square Numbers

Red Square Tasks of the Month
Task 113, Calendar
Task 115, Dividing Shapes

1,112 tasks placed in schools during November.
328,423 placed since the project began in July 1992.

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• Cube Tube
  Welcome to a new section of Mathematics Centre. Cube Tube is designed to catch the vision of learning to work like a mathematician by providing video with supporting documentation. Our first Cube Tube entry is titled An Ocean of Possibilities. It takes the view that we should stop teaching mathematics ... and replace it with? Detail is supplied in the article accompanying the video.

  During the upcoming Christmas/ New Year/ Summer break there is bound to be some time when it is too hot, too cold, too wet or too snowy to go outside. On those occasions, consider visiting Cube Tube. See Link List below.

Link List

• Mathematics Centre ... visit & bookmark
• Cube Tube
• Maths Around The Kitchen Table article
• Maths Around The Kitchen Table video
• Library Kit for Home Lending
• Square Numbers
• Task Cameo Library (131 tasks listed)

• Did you miss November?
  If so you missed information about:
  1. An appeal from Aaron Peeters in Ghana
  2. A reminder about our new book: Maths300 ETuTE - a framework for in-house professional learning
  3. Updates to Task 91, Addition Totals
  4. Notification of price changes coming in 2011
  5. Iceberg Information about two Tasks of the Month
     (Tasks 111, 112)
  6. ...and more...

Did You Know?

• You can find tasks coded by Year Level and Curriculum Strand in the Task Centre Catalogue (PDF file).

• The Activities link of Calculating Changes offers Content Finder & Year Level Finder tools.

• Our Site Map acts as a Table of Contents to help you find what you need in Mathematics Centre.

• You can search for lessons by Year Level, Curriculum Strand, Lesson Features & Keyword at Maths300.