Participating and contributing

What this looks like in mathematics and statistics

Examples of ways students participate and contribute in mathematics and statistics:

• Students work co-operatively as effective members of a group.
• Students take on appropriate roles in different situations.
• Students contribute to a culture of inquiry and learning. They share strategies and thinking and they empower and enable others.
• Students share equipment and resources and have a sense of equity about what they do.

Specific activities

• Students work together to solve a co-operative logic problem.
• Students work collaboratively to take the measurements in order to solve a survey problem involving trigonometry.
• Groups compare different samples from a set of data cards.
• Activity: Culturally locating our students in the class
• Activity: Straight line pictures
• Activity: Water woes
• Activity: Chocolate tasting - simulations and experiments
• Activity: Chocolate statistical literacy
• Activity: Memory experiment
• Activity: Coffee costs
• Activity: Cool coffee
• Activity: Big Bang Theory – Fractals and complex numbers
• Activity: Fair spinners
• Activity: Fooling the teacher
• Activity: Tell me how risky

Further information

• Facilitating shared learning

Last updated September 24, 2013

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