This Mathematics WOW is the Maths (or should I say Math) section of the well-known Primary Games.

http://www.primarygames.com/math.htm

Don’t forget to keep an eye on the Website of the Week display in the staff room.

Following from our “Learn to Read : Read to Learn” session with Sarah McDonald from Charles Sturt University, I have found some good sites with graphic organisers that will be very helpful. As Sarah said, research has shown that summarising and use of graphic organisers are among strategies that improve comprehension.

In our information abundant world, these tools are also used frequently in our Information Skills process, especially in the Select, Organise and Present  steps.

Look at the sites listed below, especially the edhelper site, which has visually attractive organisers that are still very practical. There are lots to choose from, but as Sarah reminded us, choose only 1 or 2 at a time to introduce so that the children can master them without confusion.

Houghton Mifflin

http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/  

S.C.O.R.E.

http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/actbank/torganiz.htm  

More attractive visuals may appeal to younger students http://edhelper.com/teachers/graphic_organizers.htm  

Enchanted Learning http://www.enchantedlearning.com/graphicorganizers/

Thank you to my colleagues who have already returned their survey after only being given it yesterday.  Already I’ve had a chance to analyse some of the data, and it looks like it will be extremely useful; not just for planning future professional learning, but for the broader directions of the Learning Technology Development Plan.  Hopefully we can provide everyone with some concrete results of this data gathering by early Term 4 at the very latest.

For those who haven’t got their survey in yet, please try to get it in over the next week.