Auckalnd Matematics Association Saturday session

I just gave up my Saturday morning to attend another really informative morning with the great team from AMA.Being a very wet winters morning did help. I joined Vince Wright on his expertise around Geometry or Space as it is now called in the refreshed curriculum. He had a focus around 3D shapes . He made the connections between the 2007 curriculum levels for 2,3 and 4 to the new phases of the refreshed curriculum. He really emphasised the use of language and using the correct terminology. Also the importance of getting students to group 3D shapes and explain why they belong? Building up the attributes or as he called it the features, properties and characteristics. Sometimes being explicit with the language face, vertex, edge, opposite, adjacent, parallel. He talked about visualizers- objects and spatual. Using nets and allowing students to visualise the action of folding with knowledge of properties. Also the importance of students creating their own nets. Then I joined the Tāhūrangi workshop with Kylie Begg from the ministry. This was great to be given a run through all the options and filters for the new one place shop for resources. But also the run down on the why behind creating it. We had 70 different places for NZ educators to go to with different layouts and formats. Putting them all in one place seems a sensible thing to do. I really liked the filter options; they were easy to use and had a great variety. If you use your ESL login you can make folders on your profile and add your resources there and there is also the ability to share with others. It was great to have the opportunity to have a play and a search with the expert there to ask questions. Currently there are over 2566 resources on the Mathematics and statistics part of Tāhūrangi.With many more to be transferred across.