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Workshop Two

Wednesday 9th July

10:30 am

Updated on the 24th June

The programme is now final.

2.01

Geometry is Fun!

Vaughan Jones

Vaughan Jones worked on the Index Theorem for von Neumann algebras, continuing work begun by Connes and others. His most remarkable contribution, however, was that in the course of this work he discovered a new polynomial invariant for knots which led to surprising connections between apparently quite different areas of mathematics.

Venue School

House

Repeated No

2.02

Active hands-on learning in the Primary school

Charles Lovitt

There are three rules for creating happy healthy learning environments in the primary school - Make it 'rich', make it 'rich' and make it 'rich'. This will be an extremely practical workshop with many lessons collected from creative classrooms.

Venue Senior Common Room

CL Primary

Repeated No

2.03

NCEA: An Open Discussion with a Question and Answer Session

Jan Wallace (Auckland College of Education)

An opportunity for interested people to come together to discuss issues and ideas related to the implementation of NCEA in schools.

Venue Day House

CL 6

Repeated No

2.04

The Magic in Mathematics

Julian Kissock (UCOL – Palmerston North)

Magic tricks that are based on maths or can be used for investigations, introducing topics or just to entertain. All tricks are either self working or easy to perform. Information will be given on how to perform these tricks and on where to get further resources for those interested.

Venue Hamilton

House

CL All

Repeated No

Download workshop documents A here
Download workshop documents B here

2.05

14 year olds behaving as real mathematicians? Surely not!

Anthony Harradine

This session outlines how the study of Pythagoras Theorem can be extended so students can act as real mathematicians. Students investigate, conjecture, prove and refine. The activity can be used as a whole class activity or as an extension activity, depending on the situation. Electronic technology makes this approach possible in the context of a middle years classroom. You will see how the Casio 9850 GB Plus can act as a powerful exploration tool

Venue 38

CL 5 – 6

Repeated No

2.06

A selection of activities, challenges, puzzles and starters for Years 9 and 10

Lindsay Williams (Ashburton College) Ernest Duncan Award winner 2002

The activities are related only through the concepts of challenge and enjoyment. Starters, puzzles, lateral logic challenges and the odd activity have been selected from the series of 281 now completed. Bring a calculator, some paper and be prepared to roll up your sleeves and get your hands mathematically dirty.

Venue 34

CL 5

Repeated No

Download workshop documents here.

Workshop 2.06 A Lindsay Williams
Workshop 2.06 B Lindsay Williams
Workshop 2.06 C Lindsay Williams
(There are three separate downloads for this workshop)

2.07

Continued Fractions

Andrew Wright (Havelock North High School)

When this presenter first heard about continued fractions, he thought they were recurring decimals. Was he wrong? This workshop is a teacher’s introduction to these fractions, aimed at able students from Years 9 to 13. It is definitely a DOING workshop.

Venue 36

CL 5 – 8

Repeated No

2.08

Classroom Activities for Beginners with Graphics Calculators

Derek Smith (Hutt International Boys’ School)

A beginner’s guide to using the CASIO graphical calculator in the classroom. A range of activities from Year 9 to Year 13 will be viewed and used by participants.

[Note that a workshop with similar content will be taken by Janet Roderick (see 3.06)]

Venue 37

CL 5 – 8

Repeated No

This workshop has been moved to 7.15 in room 34

2.09

A generic introduction to the EQUALS philosophy

Pip Arnold (Auckland Girls’ Grammar School)

An introduction and reminder about EQUALS. It includes some of the presenter’s favourite activities plus some new ones. Come along and do the activities and decide which ones you want to use.

Venue 41

CL All

Repeated No

2.10

Practical Introduction to Experimentation

Bruce Miller (University of Waikato)

This will be an introduction to experimentation designed to determine which factors have most effect on a measured response. Most students are not introduced to the possibilities of varying many possible contributing factors at the same time and then being able to determine which ones are having the largest effect. Using a purchased cake mixture we can investigate this in a practical way.

Venue 40

CL 6 – 8

Repeated No

2.11

Get Netted

Moira Fraser and Elizabeth Bolstad (Edgecumbe College)

A range of practical activities to help with understanding nets of solids. Area of interest: Upper primary to junior secondary

Venue 28

CL 3 – 5

Repeated No

Download workshop documents here.

2.12

Statistical Thinking at Years 11 – 13 and Before: Datasets, Activities and some thoughts.

Alasdair Noble (Massey University)

What is Statistical Thinking? I may not answer this question but I will present a series of activities using locally collected data. We will use both a spreadsheet and pen and paper to illustrate approaches to statistical thinking. The approach will use real data sets to illustrate complex concepts in both exploring data and communicating the findings. It will be applicable to a wide range of school year groups. I will include some on-the spot data creation and some Living Graphs. We will finish by discussion what Statistical Thinking means for NZ schools

Venue Art Suite

CL 5 – 8

Repeated No

2.13

Using Excel to Analyse Categorical Variables

Peter Watson (Auckland University of Technology)

Participants will receive an Excel dataset will use to pivot tables to summarise the raw data. From this summary graphs will be produced. The output will then be placed in a Word document. The session concludes with some ideas for year 13 statistics projects

Venue ICT1

CL 5 – 8

Repeated No

Download workshop documents here.

2.14

Fresh and crunchy data from Statistics New Zealand and how to use it

Mike Camden and Lesley Hooper (Statistics New Zealand)

For the good of their statistical health, students need a diet of fresh and locally-produced data. Statistics New Zealand has lots of this. We will access some of the data and other information that is available electronically from Statistics New Zealand, explore it in Excel and relate it to the Achievement Objectives of the Curriculum. We’ll use time series data from PC/INFOS SCHOOLS and Hot off the Press releases from www.stats.govt.nz. We’ll use Census data and other newly available case data from the new Table Builder system on www.stats.govt.nz. We'll include work on the indices that come into Maths with Stats next year.

Venue ICT2

CL 6 – 8

Repeated No

2.15

Exploring Data with Excel

Harold Henderson

Find out how to bring the disciplines imposed by database packages into your use of spreadsheets. Arrange your data like a table of a database with data in columns and names in the first row. Plot the data to see the patterns and the exceptions to the patterns. Using the filter with graphs gives dynmic graphics. Avoid calculations using selected rows in a column because selection can be tedious and error-prone and any re-sorting or rearrangement may make them wrong. Pivot tables avoid this problem and are very powerful and flexible. Use pivot tables to calculate means, standard deviations etc. by groups.

Venue Library Suite

Repeated No

Download workshop documents here.

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