Authentic Inquiry Maths

I was interested in exploring how we might represent the addition operation as a pattern. We had been playing with the addition algorithm an...

I was honoured yesterday by the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute (AMSI) along with 9 other outstanding Australian te...

We are exploring polyhedra in Year 2 this week. Yesterday we had a great time playing with shadows and looking at what could be made from a...

Data from the blog - cracked 400 000 views yesterday, thanks to some enthusiastic students at ACU Canberra looking at some of ...

We were making patterns yesterday. I wanted the kids to make a staircase pattern using Cuisenaire rods. I do this each year with my kids - ...

We have been looking at measurement of length this week. Today when they came into the room, the kids were faced with this challenge: ...

So we are back into the swing of things here in Canberra, Australia.  And I wanted to push on with the spatial reasoning and pattern makin...