Tape Measure Maths Fun!!
With everything that is going on around the world, we are at the point where our children will be doing a great deal of home schooling....
The Great Australian Holiday
There may be some limitations with aspects of this due to travel restrictions as a result of Covid19. Accommodation, flights and other...
Mini Projects for Home
Mini Projects for Home… Needing something to investigate while at home? Hopefully some of these ideas could help! Weird or Wonderful...
Making Graphing Fun!
With the current state of the world at the moment, we are being inundated daily with graphs giving us all sorts of information. What a...
CATAPULTS – DOING MATHS WITHOUT REALISING IT !!
This is a great activity, suitable for all ages and abilities, plus it fills in so much time! More importantly, whenever I have done this...
Calculator Games and Activities
Rather than calculators being used mainly for just checking written calculations, we can begin to see them more effectively as a valuable...
Designing Scale Model Houses
The project that I decided to use with this Gr 4/5 class is one that was developed a few years ago with some colleagues at a previous...
"Colour it in, rather than Sketch it"
I was recently listening to a podcast interview featuring the ex England cricket captain, Michael Vaughan. While not being a very big...
Maths Association of Victoria Conference December 2019
December 16, 2019 Recently I was fortunate to be selected as a workshop presenter at the Maths Association of Victoria (MAV) annual...
I Love Maths now!!
I have just completed a stint working in a Gr 6 class where I was taking a number of maths lessons ( as if I need encouragement to do...