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register and use the Maths Week website resources 

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Maths Week - Maths Week Levels and Resources

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Maths Week resources are written at five levels as follows (although not all sections have material at all levels – see details below).

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Digital Circus Activities Maths week 2021

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Dress up as your favourite number or other maths theme

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Dress up as your favourite number or other maths theme

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A Mathex competition for year levels - teams of 4. Teachers could write the questions to suit their year level. Older students or teachers can be the judges.

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A Mathex competition for year levels - teams of 4. Teachers could write the questions to suit their year level. Older students or teachers can be the judges.

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Hide the equation somewhere on your whiteboard. e.g (5x 6) + 20
Write the answer on the board eg 50 and then ask your students to see if they can work out how your hidden equation was written.  Results in lots of talking by different students trying to solve this, and helps others understand different ways to make a number. Vary from easy to hard… use fractions or decimals, multiplication or addition etc

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Invite people in to speak about how they use maths in their jobs

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Invite people in to speak about how they use maths in their jobs

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Read Maths Picture Books - Teachers rotate around classes after lunch to read a maths picture book 

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Read Maths Picture Books - Teachers rotate around classes after lunch to read a maths picture book 

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Activities from MathsWeek.co.nz. Don't forget to register to get the resources 1 week before. What are your favourite activities from this site?

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Activities from MathsWeek.co.nz. Don't forget to register to get the resources 1 week before. What are your favourite activities from this site?

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Below you will find all of the resources found at our events, including Maths Craft handouts, links to further information, and more.

All Maths Craft NZ handouts are available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence. This means that the Maths Craft NZ handouts are free to be used at home or in a classroom. By using these handouts, you agree not to use the Maths Craft NZ branding for your own products or events, nor to package or distribute our material in any format, even if you do so for free. If you're not sure what the license and agreement allows, please get in touch; we'd love to hear from you.

Origami

Modular origami is made from simple units which are connected together to form a more complicated structure. Each unit is folded from a single piece of paper. A nice unit to start with is the Sonobe unit. These Sonobe units can then be assembled into a cube or a small triakis octahedron. Instructions and videos for assembling Sonobe units into other polyhedra can easily be found online.

Möbius Strips

A Möbius strip is a surprising object; it's a surface with only one edge and one side. Start with our instructions for making and investigating paper Möbius strips. You can even make entwined Möbius hearts.

Crochet

Crochet a Möbius strip using either of two different methods. Or crochet a hyperbolic plane, a surface with constant negative curvature which minimises volume while maximising surface area. Not sure how to crochet or need a reminder? Start with our handout on useful crochet stitches.

Menger Sponge

Fractals are mathematical objects built from repeated copies of themselves. Create a fractal sculpture from business cards. Start by making single cubes, and then assemble them into a sculpture representing a Menger Sponge. Here's more information on fractals from Think Maths, the people behind the MegaMenger project.

French Knitting

A mathematical knot is a length of string (or knitted tube) which is wrapped around itself, with the ends invisibly joined to form a continuous loop. Learn how to French knit a tube, then use your French knitting to make mathematical knots.

Drawing

An impossible triangle is a triangular shape that can be drawn on paper but can't be constructed in three dimensions; try drawing one using our template and instructions. Or try drawing some pursuit curves using our instructions and template.

Meanders

A meanderis a repeated pattern or motif, usually constructed from a continuous line. In our handout, we focus on "broken" or "hook" meanders, reminiscent of intertwined spirals. These meanders can be drawn on our large and small grid templates, or on any gridded paper. Meanders are common decorative elements in ancient Greek and Roman art; there are many lovely examples of this meander on objects displayed in the Teece Museum at The Arts Centre in Christchurch.

Penrose Tiles

A Penrose tiling is a non-periodic tiling named after Sir Roger Penrose. The tiles used at some of our Maths Craft events are called the "kite" and "dart", which give an aperiodic tiling when following a simple set of rules.

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Below you will find all of the resources found at our events, including Maths Craft handouts, links to further information, and more. All Maths Craft NZ handouts are available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence. This means that the Maths Craft NZ handouts are free to be used at home or in a classroom.

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A great warm up to encourage the use of estimation

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Steve Wyborney\\\'s Blog: I\\\'m on a Learning Mission.

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Introducing Esti-Mysteries! Each image invites students to wonder what number is represented by the image. As you click through the each Esti-Mystery, clues will appear that will allow the students to use math concepts to narrow the set of possibilities to a small set of numbers. In the end, the students will need to call upon their estimation skills to solve the mystery and find the missing number.

NOTE: In addition, to these original Esti-Mysteries, you may also want to visit the brand new post 51 Esti-Mysteries.

Here is an example:

Download the Esti-Mysteries, try them in your class, and let me know about your experience.

Update: Here are 4 Printable Esti-Mystery Charts you may enjoy using with Esti-Mysteries.

Update: Here is the Full Set of Esti-Mystery Clues (without images) to allow you to browse through the Esti-Mystery Concepts.

As always, you can find me on Twitter @stevewyborney

After reading this blog post, take a look at THE 12 MOST POPULAR MATH STRATEGIES AND DOWNLOADS ON THIS BLOG.
Esti-Mystery #1 The First Mystery Esti-Mystery #2

Esti-Mystery #3

Esti-Mystery #4 ***This is the one where the numbers on the dice are first used as a clue.
Esti-Mystery #5

Esti-Mystery #6
***The most challenging one yet!

Esti-Mystery #7 "The Dice Jam"

Esti-Mystery #8 "Bright Beads"Esti-Mystery #9 "Cupside Down"Esti-Mysteries #10 "Yellow Yarn"
Esti-Mystery: The Smaller Numbers Request
Esti-Mystery: "Sinker?" (from The Smaller Numbers Series)Other Posts and Resources Which May Be of Interest
***This one that may lead to the greatest debate and surprise at the end.

Tiled Area Questions
The Smaller Number Series

This next Esti-Mysteries was requested for a kindergarten class. Enjoy!

***This is a great one to use with kindergarten students.

51 Esti-Mysteries - 51 (fifty-one!) brand new Esti-Mysteries which I've already started posting .

Splat! (50 downloadable, animated lessons)

The Fraction Splat! Series (with 20 more downloadable lessons)

Splat! for Google Slides (This is the one you want if you don't have PowerPoint but do have Google Slides.)

Cube Conversations (80 downloadable, animated lessons)

Thank you for visiting my blog!

All my best,

Steve

P.S. Please feel free to post your reflections in the comments below.

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Esti-Mysteries: Estimation Meets Math Mysteries - Steve Wyborney's Blog: I'm on a Learning Mission.

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Introducing Esti-Mysteries! Each image invites students to wonder what number is represented by the image. As you click through the each Esti-Mystery, clues

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Can we do Chess to help with strategy etc?

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Can we do Chess to help with strategy etc?

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Seniors create maths games for the juniors to play, then teach the game to them

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Seniors create maths games for the juniors to play, then teach the game to them

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Daily maths questions/challenge for each year group sent to teachers and students. Answers popped into boxes and names pulled out for prizes each afternoon

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Daily maths questions/challenge for each year group sent to teachers and students. Answers popped into boxes and names pulled out for prizes each afternoon

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Maths for Love Visual - Discussion focus

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Maths for Love Visual - Discussion focus

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Parents (& teachers) asked to submit video posing an authentic maths question. Chn have to answer them

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Parents (& teachers) asked to submit video posing an authentic maths question. Chn have to answer them

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Daily maths quiz across the school.  Prizes given daily.

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Daily maths quiz across the school.  Prizes given daily.

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*Maths tallys using driftwood
*Coding activity using squares in playground. Move teacher into a particular square and then you can squirt them with a water gun. Use forward, backward, left, right.
*Oversizes iceblock sticks stuck into sandpit. Number problem visible, answer buried in the sand. Child has to verbalise answer and then check.

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Guess how many shells in the jar competition - prize for the 3 closest estimates at the end of the week

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Guess how many shells in the jar competition - prize for the 3 closest estimates at the end of the week

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Maths Art Club - symmetrical drawing, enlargements using grids, coordinate drawings

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Maths Art Club - symmetrical drawing, enlargements using grids, coordinate drawings

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This year we are challenging classes to come up with some record breaking ideas (possibly linked with our movement programme). They will put forward heir best record and challenge others to beat it.

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Games like hopscotch, skittles, target throwing set up in the hall for all classes to play.

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This is a one game introduced every day where students from around the school come and play math games with the Y8 enrichment students.
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I love using different Splat! slides from Steve. SOO much scope. I made a recording sheet that the children write the family of facts for the level 1 and 2 splats. Lots of algebra scope in here too.

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For my educator friends who have access to Google Slides, but do not have access to PowerPoint, this post is for you. Since Google Slides does not have the animation that makes the Splats become transparent, the Splat! reveal does not work in Slides. Now - with these materials - it will. I've rewritten the first 20 Splat! lessons and the first 20 Fraction Splat! lessons with a different method so they will now include the reveal when using Google Slides.

The content of the lessons is the same as the original lessons.

Visit these links to see the original videos about how to use the and the Fraction Splat! slides.

Quick Note: The file sharing power of Google Drive is impressive and highly useful. However, for the purposes of sharing these resources, I need to use a method that I can personally maintain, update and support - and I've learned that the best way to provide resources from my blog is through the download links and the sign-up forms.

I hope you enjoy these Splats! formatted to work in Google Slides!

Splat Through 10
How many dots are under the Splat?
SPLAT 1.1 - numbers through 10 (Google Slides compatible version)
SPLAT 2.1 - with numbers 12-20 (Google Slides compatible version) SPLAT 2.2 - with numbers 12-20 (Google Slides compatible version) SPLAT 2.3 - with numbers 12-20 (Google Slides compatible version) SPLAT 2.4 - with numbers 12-20 (Google Slides compatible version) SPLAT 2.5 - with numbers 12-20 (Google Slides compatible version) SPLAT 1.2 - numbers through 10 (Google Slides compatible version)SPLAT 3.1 - multiple splats (Google Slides compatible version) SPLAT 3.2 - multiple splats (Google Slides compatible version) SPLAT 3.3 - multiple splats (Google Slides compatible version) SPLAT 3.4 - multiple splats (Google Slides compatible version) SPLAT 3.5 - multiple splats (Google Slides compatible version)
SPLAT 4.1 - instant multiple splats (Google Slides compatible version) SPLAT 4.2 - instant multiple splats (Google Slides compatible version) SPLAT 4.3 - instant multiple splats (Google Slides compatible version) SPLAT 4.4 - instant multiple splats (Google Slides compatible version) SPLAT 4.5 - instant multiple splats (Google Slides compatible version) Note: These lessons use a single splat along with a mixture of unit fractions and whole numbers. In Level 11, you control the Splat! SPLAT 11.1 - fraction splats (Google Slides compatible version) SPLAT 11.2 - fraction splats (Google Slides compatible version) SPLAT 11.3 - fraction splats (Google Slides compatible version) SPLAT 11.4 - fraction splats (Google Slides compatible version) SPLAT 11.5 - fraction splats (Google Slides compatible version) SPLAT 1.3 - numbers through 10 (Google Slides compatible version)Note: These lessons use a single Splat! which appears at the same moment as the whole numbers and fractions. Each question instantly presents missing information. SPLAT 12.1 - Instant Fraction Splats (Google Slides compatible version) SPLAT 12.2 - Instant Fraction Splats (Google Slides compatible version) SPLAT 12.3 - Instant Fraction Splats (Google Slides compatible version) SPLAT 12.4 - Instant Fraction Splats (Google Slides compatible version) SPLAT 12.5 - Instant Fraction Splats (Google Slides compatible version) Multiple Splats! with Fractions Note: These lessons include multiple Splats! and you control the timing of the Splats! The entire screen can be seen, the total can be determined, and then Splat! Remember: Each Splat! that is the same color must be covering the same number. SPLAT 13.1 - Multiple Fraction Splats (Google Slides compatible version) SPLAT 13.2 - Multiple Fraction Splats (Google Slides compatible version) SPLAT 13.3 - Multiple Fraction Splats (Google Slides compatible version) SPLAT 13.4 - Multiple Fraction Splats (Google Slides compatible version) SPLAT 13.5 - Multiple Fraction Splats (Google Slides compatible version)
Note: These lessons use multiple Splats! which appear at the same moment as the whole numbers and fractions. Each question instantly presents missing information. Remember: Each Splat! that is the same color must be covering the same number. SPLAT 14.1 - Instant Multiple Fraction Splats (Google Slides compatible version) SPLAT 14.2 - Instant Multiple Fraction Splats (Google Slides compatible version) SPLAT 14.3 - Instant Multiple Fraction Splats (Google Slides compatible version) SPLAT 14.4 - Instant Multiple Fraction Splats (Google Slides compatible version) SPLAT 14.5 - Instant Multiple Fraction Splats (Google Slides compatible version) SPLAT 1.4 - numbers through 10 (Google Slides compatible version)
SPLAT 1.5 - numbers through 10 (Google Slides compatible version)

Splat Through 20
How many dots are under the Splat?

Multiple Splats
Note: Splats that are the same color must cover the same number.

Instant Multiple Splat
Note: An additional feature of this level is the opportunity to ask, "What could the total be?"

Instant Fraction Splat!

Multiple Instant Splats! with Fractions

After reading this blog post, take a look at THE 12 MOST POPULAR MATH STRATEGIES AND DOWNLOADS ON THIS BLOG.

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Splat! for Google Slides - 40 Lessons - Steve Wyborney's Blog: I'm on a Learning Mission.

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For my educator friends who have access to Google Slides, but do not have access to PowerPoint, this post is for you. Since Google Slides does not have the