Help Sites / Tutorials
Handling Data from the BBC Bitesize
Other teaching sites
Sources of Data
What’s in a name?
Birth and the numbers of Life
Interesting Links
BBC Magazine shows how percentages can be used to mislead
Interactive Web 2.0 Graphic Tools
The links below were collected based on students’ interests. We’re using this handout to focus the activity.
Cars
VW Kombi Vans
Music
Buying a House
Careers & Income
Here are some interesting links we might look at:
“Life Lessons”
More About the Environment
Use this image (or a closer version) to
SEE-THINK-WONDER
- What do you see?
- What do you think about that?
- What does it make you wonder?
This information comes from this amazing artist.
(you could also try this page)
Let’s say your family wanted to go to Sydney’s CBD (or Wollongong, Canberra or the Blue Mountains if you really want to do something on your own). There are a lot of Landmarks to see and interesting places to go.
Let’s say you’re in charge of the trip. How will you organise it and how much will it cost? You can download this handout to get started with the steps below.
Transportation
Going by train
- What day of the week would you like to take your day trip?
- Are you going on a weekday, weekend or holiday?
- What trainline will you use?
Choose a time you’d like to leave using the CityRail Timetable.- Are there any service changes for that day?
- What time do you expect to arrive in Sydney?
- How long will the trip take?
- How many people are travelling with you?
- Calculate the cost for your family: Use the CityRail Calculator.
- Do you qualify for family or other discounts?
- Add how much more will it would cost if someone in your group doesn’t do the right thing? (add this amount to the total).
Going by car
- What’s the fuel consumption of the car your family would take? This is usually measured in litres/100 kilometres. Use the “Specifications” section of this page or try the Australian Green Office site.
How much does fuel cost today in Sydney? - Make sure you choose the fuel type that goes with your car.- How much did your type of petrol cost in 2002?
- If the trip to Sydney is 100 kilometres, how much fuel will you use?
- What is the total cost for fuel for the trip to Sydney and back?
- Now add the cost for parking in Sydney.
- Add the toll for using the Motorways. You will encounter two tolls going (the M5 & the Eastern Distributor) and one coming back (M5). What is the total?
Summary
Would it be cheaper for your family to travel by car or train?
Below are links to the pages of our Review booklet.
- Click on the topic you’re working on to download a Microsoft Word document.
- Save the document into your server space (or onto the desktop and let us know!)
- Research and answer the questions for your page.
The Topics
Geometry Summary 1
Geometry Summary 2
Pythagoras’ Theorem
Algebra Summary 1
Algebra Summary 2
Percentages Summary 1
Percentages Summary 2
Percentages Summary 3
Volumes and Capacity
(all pages in one document)
Hi All,
Good to get together again. How are my favourite Number Crunchers? 
This week we want to help each other by getting a really good set of links on help pages:
Mr. March will have you logged in so that you can edit and add to one of the pages above. You might work solo or in pairs, but check first so we know who’s doing what.
Your task is to
- surf through the links on your page
- delete any that are broken or no good
- add a good description to the ones you keep
- Save the page.
Hint: if you finish with the task, take a look at the Text Book’s Web site and BrainPop Maths site for some good interactive quizzes and lessons and add them to your list.
Cool. See Mr. March or Ms. Culey if you need help.
Hello all! Good to see you again. Today’s task is:
- Review the “Student Teams” page (listed to the right or click the link) and update your interest statement or add some good links.
- Identify your main maths approach. This will be something like the formula for finding averages, or factoring ratios, or using an online poll, or listing data in a speadsheet.
- Send this information to the Weblog as comments or as a post after you register.
You can use this page to explore links or try a Alexa search
Please use the C-E-Q-A-LL approach (Choice, Effort, Quality, Attitude, Labor of Love)
We want to explore numbers and help other people (students and adults) see why they are important. The world needs you to help them.
I think it would be useful to get into teams. Some of you might be interested in:
- Polling Oxley people
- Tracking What’s Hot & What’s Not
- Understanding the global effect of numbers & populations
Add a comment to this post with a team and an idea to pursue.
Today we’re meeting as a special group of Year 8 maths students. You folks have done a terrific job learning what you are supposed to about maths. But more than school learning, the world needs capable young people to help make sense of all the numbers floating around these days. And it’s clear from some Web sites like this that students can really contribute to the world. Let’s explore some links and then brainstorm what we might want to make.
