Teaching and Learning about Decimals Learning About Decimals: An activity book Archer, S., Condon, C., Steinle, V., & Stacey, K. (2010) Learning about decimals: An activity book. Melbourne Graduate School of education, University of Melbourne. This book contains under one cover two publications previously published separately. Lesson Ideas and Activities for Teaching Decimals This 69 page booklet contains lesson plans, ideas for short activities, guides to using concrete materials, photocopy masters and worksheets for addressing common difficulties in understanding decimal notation. Linear Arithmetic Blocks: A concrete model for teaching decimals This 43 page booklet contains lesson plans for using a very effective but not well known model for decimal numeration and operations, which can be made from plastic pipe. Initially we made the linear arithmetic blocks ourselves. The book is purchased from the University of Melbourne (Pam or Kaye - See ordering information)
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Guided Math Interactive Whiteboard Resources: Maths, Key Stage 2 Caterpillar OrderingTablet friendly A flexible game for ordering numbers and for number sequences. Fantastic on an interactive whiteboard and tablet friendly. Varying levels of difficulty make it suitable for use throughout the primary age range. OrderingFlash You'll love this ordering game! Compare Numbers on a Number LineFlash Compare numbers on two different number lines and decide which is bigger. Comparing NumbersFlash A teaching tool which is good for demonstrating greater than and less than with 2 and 3 digit numbers and rounding to 10 and 100. CountersquareFlash A hundred square with movable counters and lots of different ideas on how you can use this as a teaching aid. Higher and LowerFlash Lots of examples of ordering numbers from simple ordering numbers to 10 to fractions, decimals or negative and positive numbers. Thinking of a NumberFlash Children need to guess a number below 100 from clues on the clouds. Chinese Dragon GameTablet friendly SequencesFlash EstimateFlash Number LineFlash
Tree Measurement - fieldwork - L a n d L e a r n - Australia Contents: 1. Measurement in the field - techniques Introduction: Vegetation management on both public and private land, in farm forestry, native forests, gardens and parkland provides examples of monitoring techniques which can be applied with students. Understanding and applying the techniques used in the field to measure individual trees and stands provides students with an insight into the roles and work of forest and other natural resource management scientists. Students can collect data and, depending on the sites available, can use the information in management decisions for the site. Students will be able to: Equipment: (i) Data collection - Measurements of a single tree 1. The diameter of a tree provides a measure of tree performance and is required for estimating tree volume. By convention, the diameter of forest trees is measured 1.3 metres above the ground. When estimating tree volume it is best to have a value of 'Diameter at Breast Height Under Bark' (DBHUB). 2. 3. 4. 5. S.
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