OTRNet Newsletter 29
Hi and welcome to our January 2003 Newsletter.
As we return to our classes in Australia for the start of a
new school year I am sure each of us will find some new challenges to puzzle
over, inspire us and extend us. It was enlightening for me to have dinner
last week with two teachers about to start their first year of teaching.
Their excitement and desire was enthusing and I'd suggest to those of us who
have been teaching for more than just a few years that associating in some
way with teachers new to the profession would be a positive for both
parties!
The Integrated Maths Module project is now well past the half
way mark with materials for Year 10 students being published during this
year. I hope these, or some other OTRNet item, can help your teaching in
2003.
Regards,
Mark
In this newsletter there is
information on:
1. The Latest on the
Integrated Maths Modules
2. Programming with the Integrated Maths
Modules
3. Renewing Subscriptions to our Online
Service
4. MAWA Professional
Development
5. Sharemarket Game from ASX.
1. The Latest on
the Integrated Maths Modules
Module F03: Quadratic Functions 1 was
published this month and is now available through fax order, online
ordering or from your bookseller. This latest module brings to 20 the
total number published and we currently have five other modules being
prepared for publication.
Samples from this module are available from the samples
page at:
Don't forget that you can download and use samples from any
of 20 completed modules. This means 20 activities and 20 applications
totalling over 40 pages are available for you to use free with your
students either as immersion material or as complex tasks to apply
understandings to.
Modules E03: 3D Shapes 1 and F04: Networks
are both currently being printed and will be available during February.
You can check availability of all modules at this page of
our web site:
Twenty integrated maths modules are
now published and samples from all these modules are available
from our website at the link below:
2. Programming
with the Integrated Maths Modules
If you are using the Integrated Maths Modules or
planning to use them in 2003 the programming information on our
web site has been extended to include guides for year 9.
Although only suggestions, these guides may help you decide how
to order your modules, how to pace the material and what might
be appropraite at various times and levels.
The programming information can be found at
this page of our web site:
http://www.otrnet.com.au/IntegratedMathsModules/IMM_Programming.html
3.
Renewing Subscriptions to our Online Service
Schools subscribed to any of the categories of our subscription service
are reminded that to continue your access into 2003 you will
need to renew your subscription. Renewals are $10 per category
and can be made via a fax or email citing an order number or
using our online ordering where you save 10% on all OTRNet
products. Specific reminders will come to you in email form
shortly and those not renewed will have their access removed
after Friday February 14th. Category D is not available in 2003
but we are hoping to add a new outcomes based category during
this year. Take a few minutes to renew now!
If you were not previously subscribed then follow the link
below to find out more about what we offer. You can get
students working mathematically on quality tasks modelled to fit
your desired outcomes.
Subscriptions
Service Information
4. MAWA Professional
Development
Thank you to all those people who attended my sessions at the
MAWA Secondary Convention and gave such positive feedback about the topic.
I will be repeating this session at MAWA's first Afternoon Workshop for
2003. This will take place at the new MAWA Office in Mirrabooka on Thursday
13th March.
The session is titled "Focusing on Learning in the
Classroom". The aim of this session is to suggest ways and means of
making a classroom more student centred, making learning more constructivist
based, and allowing students to work cooperatively. The session
would be of interest to people who are trying to make changes in their own
classroom or are looking at how an alternative learning process can be
managed.
You can register with MAWA for this session by contacting the
office on 9345 0388.
5. Sharemarket Game from ASX
### from the Australian sharemarket has asked me to remind
schools that a new game starts on ######. A valuable experience for
students and teachers alike, this game has been a success in many schools
over the years it has now been running.
You can link directly to the game from the link here:
or use our "Links to Lesson Resources" page of our Weblinks
availasble at this address:
Want your students to be
working on richer tasks?
Use Integrated Maths Modules and
you'll find Applications that involve students applying concepts to complex
tasks.
If you have completed our free registration you
can join the growing group of people and schools who order online
and now receive 10% discount off normal
prices!
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Mark R. O'Brien
Online Teachers Resource Network
C.O. Post Office
Wooroloo WA 6558
Phone: (08) 9573 1367
Fax: (08) 9238 1334