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[画像:Domino Trails Record Sheet]
Task 15, Domino Trails, Record Sheet

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Curriculum Support
Page 1, the Working Mathematically process as described by mathematicians. Now you know what it means to work like a mathematician.
One click gives both these pages.
Page 2, the most compact version of everything Mathematics Centre stands for. Swedish version of Working Mathematically.


Easy find reference page of links to key areas of Mathematics Centre.
A one page flow chart to help you create your own Working Mathematically curriculum using Mathematics Centre resources.
A scaffold to help you build a Working Mathematically curriculum in your own way.

A mathematician's work begins with an interesting problem. These teaching craft features are used to fascinate, captivate and absorb students.
Simply stated focus, professional development, web site back up, resources support. Run your own Discussion Lessons as in-house PD then debrief together around this document.

Task Centre Support

Clear and concise 9 pages providing background and detail for making your own tasks and creating your own Hands-on Task Library. Powerful 69 page manual to support the use of Tasks. Every main section provides links to the relevant part of Mathematics Centre so the support goes way beyond the printed pages.
Every task coded by appropriate year level and content strands to which it relates. Information in this document is also included in the eTask Maker Manual. Four pages.

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Stimulating photos of teachers and students at work with tasks to help you discover their educational value. Right
Due to the reading levels of the cards, tasks are often adapted when used with 5-8 year olds. Teachers have successfully used these tasks with Infants. How might they have been adapted?


One way to ensure some record gathering for assessment when students are working on tasks. Student self assessment of their problem solving. Works well in conjunction with the teacher page.
One school's approach to a rubric model of assessment for a task that becomes a project.

Another school's approach to rubric assessment. Find out more about assessment of a Working Mathematically curriculum at our Assessment link.

Recording Sheets

All recording sheets required to support particular tasks gathered as a 32 page book for easy printing. Each is also available separately as PDF or an editable Word document.
  • 15. Domino Trails
    Word ... PDF
  • 24. Squares Around Squares
    Word ... PDF
  • 42. Triangles Around Triangles
    Word ... PDF
  • 48. How Many Triangles?
    Word ... PDF
  • 65. Shape Algebra
    Word ... PDF
  • 67. Making Solids
    Word ... PDF
  • 69. Tricubes
    Word ... PDF
  • 70. Symmetric Shapes
    Word ... PDF
  • 71. Algebra Through Geometry
    Word ... PDF
  • 75. What's It Worth?
    Word ... PDF
  • 77. Tricube Constructions A
    Word ... PDF
  • 83. Racetrack
    Word ... PDF
  • 90. Tricube Constructions B
    Word ... PDF
  • 103. Four Cube Houses
    Word ... PDF
  • 108. How Many Squares?
    Word ... PDF
  • 111. Square Numbers
    Word ... PDF

Research Support

Twelve page summary of the key features of 4 years of research in conjunction with the Aboriginal Education Unit, Tasmania More on research plus success stories from classrooms at Research & Stories link. This link also includes a 'teacher talk' version of the INISSS Report.

Additional information related to the Home Lending Project can be found at Maths Around The Kitchen Table. Other models for making tasks an integral part of the curriculum can be found at Integrating Tasks.
A UK based research project investigating the success of a 'Maths Around The Kitchen Table' component of a school's mathematics curriculum.

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