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Exploring SPACE

Exploring SPACE. Tuesday May 16 2006 Armidale CEO. What is Space?. What do students think?. What do parents think?. What are your concerns?. Why teach SPACE?. Who needs it?. architects mechanics designer engineers dancers landscaper surveyor town planner carpenter.

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Exploring SPACE

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  1. Exploring SPACE Tuesday May 16 2006 Armidale CEO

  2. What is Space?

  3. What do students think?

  4. What do parents think?

  5. What are your concerns?

  6. Why teach SPACE?

  7. Who needs it? • architects mechanics designer • engineers dancers landscaper • surveyor town planner carpenter

  8. Moving furniture Reading roadmaps Decorating When do we use it? Fractions Ball games Dress patterns Interpreting diagrams Driving a car Tying knots

  9. What’s new in the Syllabus?

  10. No symmetry ES1 • Prisms S1 • Angles S1 • No blunt, sharp angles • 8 compass points S2 • Visualising • No knots • No isometric drawings

  11. Properties of shape • Holistic recognition of shape • Classification of shapes, attending to visual features • Identification of classes of shapes by some properties • Definition of shapes using properties

  12. Visualising and orienting • Static, pictorial images formed in conjunction with models or manipulatives • Re-orientation of shapes mentally • Dynamic imagery • Extending, applying

  13. What’s the area? 1.7 2.2 3.2 1.2 1 0.3 0.08

  14. Space is a verb

  15. http://matti.usu.edu/http://www.fi.uu.nl/rekenweb/en/welcome.xmlhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks3bitesize/maths/http://matti.usu.edu/http://www.fi.uu.nl/rekenweb/en/welcome.xmlhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks3bitesize/maths/

  16. Assessing Space

  17. What’s in a triangle?

  18. What are the implications for my school?

  19. Exploring SPACE Tuesday May 16 2006 Armidale CEO

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