Maths at Ryde

Welcome to the Northern Sydney Region Mathematics website. We welcome any ideas, suggestions or feedback as you begin your adventure exploring the wonderful materials and exciting teaching and learning activities we have placed here for you!

Enjoy

Anita, Carol and Cath

Last Update: 10 July 2006

Mathematics K-6 Syllabus 2002

Number Strand

Count Me In Too (Early Stage 1 – Stage 2)

Count Me In Too (CMIT) professional learning workshops in Northern Sydney Region are well underway for 2005. Information for participating schools’ can be found in the Professional Learning section of this site.

Information about implementing or maintaining Count Me In Too in your school is available from the DET Count Me In Too web site

Copies of the Count Me In Too professional development package from NSW DET

(video: Introducing CMIT, video: CMIT Teaching Activities, CD-ROM: Introducing The Framework,

folder explaining: the CMIT project, readings, the Learning Framework in Number, SENA kit

information) may be purchased for $143.00 plus postage and handling from:

DET sales

PO Box 22, Bankstown. NSW 2200

T 9793 3086 F 9793 3242

Counting On (Stage 3 and Stage 4)

Counting On professional learning workshops in Northern Sydney Region are well underway for 2005. Information for participating schools’ can be found in the Professional Learning section of this site.

Information about the Counting On professional development program is available from the DET

Counting On web site. This includes the Learning Framework in Number (LFIN), learning activities

and evaluations.

Copies of the Counting On professional development package from NSW DET (CD-ROM of

teaching activities, assessment kit, assessment schedule, 40 page manual explaining the program

and the Learning Framework ) may be purchased for $80.00 plus postage and handling from

DET sales.

Fractions

Fractions: pikelets and lamingtons is a syllabus support document (64 pages) from NSW DET,

Professional Support and Curriculum Directorate. It contains lesson plans that emphasise the use

of sharing to introduce fractions, combined with examples of students’ recordings. It also has a

CD-ROM with four sample learning objects.

· Distribution to NSW DET primary schools: 2003. Term 4, week 10

· Cost for additional copies: $24.00

· Additional copies can be purchased from: DET Sales

Patterns and Algebra Strand

Watch this space … syllabus support document to be released this semester!

Measurement Strand

Teaching measurement: Early Stage 1 and Stage 1 is a syllabus support document (141 pages)

from NSW DET, Professional Support and Curriculum Directorate. It contains an extensive bank of

lesson ideas and lesson plans that emphasises the growth of students’ knowledge of the attributes

of length, area, volume and capacity, and mass and an understanding of how units of measurement

are repeated and counted.

· Distribution to NSW DET primary schools: 2003. Term 4, week 8

· Cost for additional copies: $23.00

· Additional copies can be purchased from: DET Sales

Teaching measurement: Stage 2 and Stage 3 is a syllabus support document (140 pages) from NSW DET, Professional Support and Curriculum Directorate. It contains an extensive bank of lesson ideas and lesson plans that emphasises the growth of students’ knowledge of the attributes of length, area, volume and capacity, and mass and an understanding of how units of measurement are repeated and counted.