6_7_Task_Design



Aim

The aim of this session is to remind ourselves of the elements of a good activity. How do we match the philosophy of the IB with the syllabus content and our own philosophy of teaching? This session gives us an opportunity to create and collaborate with colleagues and perhaps look in more detail at some of the elements of the syllabus.

Session Outline


 * // ‘Visual Sequences’ //** – An activity designed to promote mathematical thinking in the teaching of arithmetic sequences.


 * // ‘What makes a good task?’ //** – Our collective thoughts are put together on this question

‘**Sharing good ideas’** – As a group we will share some of best teaching ideas that might be used to teach the Maths Studies syllabus


 * ‘Task Design’ ** – In small groups we aim to produce some good ideas and activities that we can all take away

Included in this guide

Visual Sequences – some related resources What makes a good task? – a mind map A design brief Some Stimuli for task design

All other resources related to this session can be found on the course wikispace



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=A Good Task=

Use in everyday life Creative and challenging Ah - Wow moment Aha - Light bulb moment Haha - fun factor the hook Understand the meaning moving to... Visual elements moving to... Investigation and discovery Computation Sense of achievement - understanding what you did Challenge all levels - starting point for everyone Catering for different learning styles being aware having a sense of place, linking to instructional goals Self empowerment ownership

=Ideas from Participants=

Rob - Comedy quiz show, maths songs going through a calculation, popular songs
Usain Bolt - split times etc.

Kevin - Intro to statistical significance and chi-squared:

 * ==Smart notebook: [[file:Chi-squared intro.notebook]]==
 * As PDF: [[file:Chi-squared intro.notebook.pdf]]
 * Excel tables: [[file:chi-squared hypotheticals.xlsx]]

=Tom - Human Venn Diagrams= Give your pupils counting number in ascending order as they walk into your 'loo-paper' classroom - have some vaseline ready for them to stick the numbers to their foreheads. Ask them to give each of the three loo-paper circles a characteristic such as square numbers, even or odd numbers, triangular, happy, pentagonal, fibonacci etc. Can they occupy each of the 8 sections?

After their best attempt they record their solution. Now reveal your prepared questions using set notations and using different symbols - class answers these accoding to their notes.

Class task (or prep) is to design another venn diagramm with numbers and criteria they have picked - best once good for another class activity or wall display. You could alter the parameters to request that one or more sections have to remain empty or that a certain notation question delivers a particular result.

Quadratic Fencing
Here hopefully we can add some ideas for teaching the Maths Studies Syllabus both that people have brought with them and those that they have worked on during the course.

More Ideas for teaching Maths Studies Syllabus

Human Venn Diagrams



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Dancing Quadratics

Fairground Games

McDonald Economics - An Inquiry Based Unit of work based upon the Big Mac price index. There are notes for teachers within the sheet but students should be allowed some freedom.