Tag: real-life maths
Sweet Stall Money Project – Year 6/7/8
Summary of Lesson Plan: This Unit provides students with the opportunity to develop money skills through a real world learning context. These lessons were designed...
Real-life Algebra Lesson Plan – Looking at Patterns in Paving Stones
Summary of Lesson Plan: In this lesson plan, students apply algebraic patterning concepts to describe, continue and repeat number patterns. They apply these understandings in the...
Create a Book Order – An Authentic Maths Lesson Plan...
Summary of Lesson Plan: In this lesson plan, students are given the task of compiling a book order for $75. They are required to use addition and...
Design a Community Space – A Mathematics Lesson Plan on Area...
Summary of Lesson Plan: Following a reading of Jeannie Baker’s ‘Belonging’, in this lesson plan, students are given the task of designing a community space with...
Teaching Volume – A Lesson Plan in Calculating Volume with MAB...
Summary of lesson plan: This is the second of two lesson plans that allows students to explore the concept of volume. They will understand that...
Ice-Cream Maths Lesson – Collecting and Displaying Data
Summary of lesson plan: Students have been hired as the new ice-cream inventor at Miss Knights School Creamery. As the new inventor, they are responsible...
Working with Money Lesson Plan – Year 2/3/4
Summary of Lesson Plan: This lesson provides students with the opportunity to develop money skills through a real world learning context. This lesson was designed...
Problem Solving Fun – A Hands-On Lesson in Making Toys
Summary: In this lesson, students design, create, record, market and finance a new toy. The go through a vast amount of the curriculum while doing...
Problem Solving Lesson: Traffic Jam!
Summary: This lesson involves students using a variety of strategies to solve an age old problem known as the "traffic jam." This gives students the...
Cool Maths – 10 Ways to Use Shopping Catalogues
Summary: Shopping catalogues are a cool maths resource when teaching as they form the basis of some quick math thinking. Kids love them and they are...
Paper Houses – 3D Shapes, Area and Volume
Summary: In this lesson, children use a 2D floor plan to create their modern house. They then create 3D shapes to build the house and...