Saturday, 3 August 2013

2013 is the International Year of the Mathematics of Planet Earth



Words and Numbers Week finishes tomorrow but the website, www.literacyandnumeracy.gov.au is still available. Following the link to Mathematics of Planet Earth2013 leads to some interesting images and ideas for students to investigate mathematically. 

If you want to investigate rubbish at your school, via the 'This is Rubbish' exercise, which aims to encourage students to use mathematics to analyse waste, the following extract from our book ‘Counting on a Small Planet’, called ‘What’s in a Lunch Box?’ might give you some ideas as to how to go about it.


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