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Maths Long Term Planning with Julia Tong

Some of the ideas we collaboratively shared about the mathematics that could be related to the Olympic games. 

Today's Learning

Today, Julia encouraged staff to think about all the different maths we could incorporate around a given topic (2016 Olympics). From brainstorming within our small collaborative groups, she then encouraged us to identify our greatest need for maths from using our assessment data to further develop students learning.

The areas I identified was:
- Measurement (Time) Identify the difference between countries (Home country and country hosting olympics). Volume measure the volume of an olympic swimming pool.
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  1. Wasn't this a simple way to see how much cross strand maths can be covered in a real life context for our students? Next steps to link to classes individual needs from assessment data and planning for term 3 almost done.

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