Authentic Inquiry Maths

Hard to believe, I know. But the lesson on Monday afternoon was just that - a bit of a failure. It was flat, uninspiring and all a bit con...

Last weekend was one of my favourite weekends of the year - the Lifeline Bookfair in Canberra. This event happens twice a year and rais...

....and boy was I surprised!   We were using the coloured centicubes to represent simple fractions (1/2, 1/4, 1/10 etc) when I decided to ...

We are just moving into an exploration of fractions, so after listening to Mr Duey doing the "Fraction Rap", we got down on the fl...

Part of our exploration of area and perimeter led us to the idea that you can draw different shapes that have the same perimeter but with di...

One boy's personal exploration into Infinity We'd been doing all that investigation into 2D shapes, looking at area and perimeter....

I posted a few weeks ago about the Year 6 Exhibition and my hopes that the kids would carefully consider how they were going to incorporate ...