Maths support materials

Concept maps These are series of conceptual frameworks that are being developed in significant areas of mathematics. They provide information about the key mathematical ideas, link to relevant ARB resources, and suggest some ideas on the teaching and assessing of that area of mathematics. These concept maps are added to as further research and trialling in the respective areas are conducted. Presentations (ppt) Presentations given by ARCT maths researchers/resource developers at Numeracy huis, teacher conferences, research conferences, and lead teacher days. These presentations often relate to classroom investigations and resource development as a part of developing the concept maps. Short articles A growing selection of short articles written about mathematical ideas. These short articles (articlettes) stem from resource development work where an idea or important point about a concept is explored in a little more depth. Click on the links below to view the concept maps and associated assessment resources for each: Probability Concept Map (2010) Basic Facts Concept Map (2009) Algebraic Patterns Concept Map (2009) Algebraic Thinking Concept Map (2007) Fractional Thinking Concept Map (2006) Computational Estimation Concept Map (2005) Click on the links below to view the presentations (ppt): Algebraic Patterning (2009) Basic Facts (2008) Exploring Concepts in Algebraic Patterning (2008) Unpacking Student Responses (2008) Supporting PD in algebraic and fractional thinking (2007) Algebraic Thinking through Number (2006) Thinking about Fractions (2006) Self-Regulated Learning and Proportional Reasoning (2005) Click on the links below to view the articles: The Statistical Enquiry Cycle (2011) Statistical investigations should follow the statistical enquiry cycle (SEC) that is mentioned in the New Zealand Curriculum. This affirms that statistics is more than just gathering, analysing, and displaying data. Dividing with fractions (2010) Dividing one fraction by another fraction can be a difficult maths problem to conceptualise, represent, or solve with understanding... Unitising and re-unitising (2010) Unitising is about selecting a unit of measurement with which to measure or interpret other quantities. Unitising is a strategy that can be used to work out another quantity that relates to the unit selected... Types of data: Statistics (2009) This is about using different types of data for graphing in statistics.

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