2009
sees the publication by
Blake Education of
our follow-up to Natural Maths
Strategies series, Strategic Maths - Number.
Each book in the series has a technology component giving slide
sequences and applets for the key number strategies at all levels.
The
new series builds on our interest in interactive whiteboard use. It really is time for innovation
with ICTs and maths and the IWB promises a great deal ... once we fully
understand the contribution it can make to teaching. The new series aims to
make using the IWB a must for teaching maths ... not just an add-on!
Owing
to pressures from other sources, we have decided to delay the start of
our maths competition. The 2009 Naturally Mathematical Challenge,
will start in Semester
2 . Meanwhile, the questions for the 2008 Challenges will be freely available on this site - if you want to
join the competition and receive feedback for your teams, drop
us an email and we'll make sure that you are kept informed of dates
etc.
Over
the last 10 year, Natural Maths has developed a range of publications,
that are based on helping teachers to bring lively and
educationally-sound activities to their maths teaching. We are
currently working on a new Problem Solving series with IWB and applet
components. Our colleague Roger Duke is working with us on this one.
Our
Fun Stuff section includes the wonderful world of Hexagonia and if you
haven't seen the amazing 6-sided figure in which the numbers from 1 to 63
are positioned to make all the rows in all of three directions add to the same
total of 1953, then take a moment to enjoy. We couldn't help
becoming involved in the latest phenomenon Sudoku.
It's the new number puzzle that is grabbing young and old, and we just might
have a contribution that could 'make your day'! It's an Excel
spreadsheet that lends a hand in finding a solution and was developed in
collaboration with Steve Sugden from the e-journal for Spreadsheets
in Education.
Did you manage to read this far?
Well, watch this space, because we are well under way with some really
great DVDs that introduce problems for the students to work on.
