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GOAL. Students will experience outside maths tasks at first hand, will evaluate them critically and set out to make their own maths trail. . We want to use http://blog.soton.ac.uk/mase / to collect the experiences. If you want you can also make and submit additional photo and video footage.

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  1. GOAL Students will experience outside maths tasks at first hand, will evaluate them critically and set out to make their own maths trail. We want to use http://blog.soton.ac.uk/mase/to collect the experiences. If you want you can also make and submit additional photo and video footage.

  2. OUTLINE 9.00-9.30 STARTER: Fraction relay + reflection. 9.30-9.45 Explain purpose and structure of the day. 9.45-11.40 (I) Try one of the example activities (2) Strolling the campus. Thinking about possible, original maths tasks for a 4 node-maths trail. Inspiration through the example tasks that everyone will receive. 11.40-12.15 Discuss/share morning activities 12.15-1.15 Write a short maths trail (hand-in, we print them off) 1.15-2.00 Lunch 2.00-3.00 Task swap. Result: feedback on every task. 3.00-3.30 Finishing the day, evaluation

  3. Example activities • An example maths trail • Churchyard • Making a clinometer, heights • Pedestrian crossing • Arrivals and departures • Flow of a stream • Volumes of conical frustums

  4. Possible questions • How high is the Highfield Sculpture? • What is the area of the Nuffield Theatre?

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