Nicola StockEducation Officer

Centre for LIFE

Teachers’ Concerns

• Functional Skills

• Assessing Pupil Progress

• Rich Tasks

“A rich task has a range of characteristics, offering different opportunities to meet the different needs of learners at different times” - NCETM

Rich Tasks

Characteristics of Rich Tasks

• accessible and extendable

• allow learners to make decisions

• involve learners in testing, proving, explaining, reflecting and interpreting

• promote discussion and communication

• encourage originality and invention

• encourage 'what if' and 'what if not' questions

• enjoyable and contain the opportunity for surprise

• Hands-on

Steve HumbleCentre for Excellence in Teaching Mathematics

Steve HumbleCentre for Excellence in Teaching Mathematics

• Hands-on

• Minds-on

Steve HumbleCentre for Excellence in Teaching Mathematics

• Hands-on

• Minds-on

• Hearts-on

Hearts-on

Minds-onHands-on

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What is Mathstastic?

• Hands-on

• Minds-on

• Hearts-on

Steve HumbleCentre for Excellence in Teaching Mathematics

Ciencia Viva Lisbon

MTN Science Centre Cape Town

ExperimentariumCopenhagen

Mathstastic Package

• 1 hour Hands–on Maths Activities

• 30 minute Maths Show

• 30 minute Maths Trail (outdoor or indoor)

One class at a time (up to 36 students)

£4 per student

Hands-on Maths

• Based on ideas from around the world

• Mix of puzzles and games

• Some for solving alone, some in groups

Hands-on Maths

Things that didn’t work

• Complex instructions

• Lengthy tasks

• Opportunities for silliness

• Wrong look

Things that helped

• Much simpler instructions

• Recognising the activities that need specific support

• User-friendly teacher answer sheet

• Recording sheets to gather whole class data

• KS3 versions of some activities

Mezz layout .pdf

Packing Case Packing Balls Sand Piles Cones

Penrose Tiling Fisher Tiling Crazy Paving Pentominoes

Pentominoes Game Orange Problem Three Cup Monty Windy Ridge

Tangrams L-game The empire strikes back Dancing Discs

Celtic Knot Maze Number Jumping Maze Arrow Maze Konnensburg Bridges

Fill the Crate Metro Map Dice Brazil Nut Problem

Dominoes - twos Domino addition Spiderman Goal!

Tower of Hanoi Invent a card trick Consecutive numbers Napiers Bones

Coastlines Scarf Juggling Handshakes Conway’s Game of Life

Cracking the safe Dressing up Game of 15 Shells

Magic Square Latin Square Switch the trucks Knight’s Tour

Visual Pythagoras Loaded Ruler Hexaflexagon Match Puzzles

Coins Sam Lloyds Greek Cross Quilting Mirror Shape Challenge

Mirror Writing What was your birthday Lloyds Triangles Buffon’s Needle

Golden section Blockbuster Hex link game Topology puzzle

Umlabalaba Triangular solitaire

Areas of Maths covered

• 2D & 3D visualization• Problem solving• Symmetry• Measurement• Geometry• Tessellation• Strategy and logic• Topology• Set theory• Probability• Number theory

Maths Show

• Probability

• Topology

• Number Theory

• Problem Solving and Logic

Who needs to know about these?

New KS3 Show

• Divide audience into two teams

• Series of maths-themed challenges

Maths Trail

Maths Trail

Crazy Paving: Data collection,

display and estimation

St Mary’s Cathedral:

Symmetry

Helix Sculpture: Angles

Peer Tutoring

Gifted & Talented

Gifted & Talented