For the next two days we’ll be working on developing WebQuests at the of Independent Schools Victoria
workshop
Rich Tasks for Maths
The Big Picture
What is our most important job as teachers in a world of Layars and Sixth Senses?
Working with teachers in South Australia as we explore how Web 2.0 and ICTs can support Rich Tasks in maths. Here are the notes for the session and a worksheet for participants.
Main Strategies
- Look to Learn – Numbers (stixy) , Powers of Ten and Nuclear Giving
- ClassPortals – CSLN, Digital Citizens
- WebQuests 2.0
Tutorials
- Get a WordPress Blog
- Make a post to your blog
- Get a Pageflakes Feed (here’s the shared Maths Pagecast and IWB Feeds
- Diigo Groups: Math Links, Math Web sites, Everyday Maths Resources, I Love Teaching Maths
- IWB Tools Panel
- WebGlossary 2.0 from Wikipedia
Resources and Inspiration
- The Numbers Guy – Wall Street Journal
- Khan Academy – Video Lessons
- Kid stuff: Baby Names Map, SA Baby names,
- 87 Billion – this could be seen as a “serving the net”
- World Clock – shows dynamic data on population, energy use, crimes, etc.
- WorldoMeters’s “Stats of the Month”
- WorldoMeters: Organisations that provide data for statistics
- Interactive US Budget Pie Chart
- Sample post: “Just how big a number is that?”
- InstaBudget – Australian National Budget Simulator 2009
- Individual (US) Tax Allocation – from National Priorities
- Australian Bureau of Statistics: Social Trends, Population, Measures of Progress