Recommended Books

The Dot and the Line: A romance in lower mathematics

Norton Juster

Australian Curriculum:  Description
Teaching ideas
Show youtube clip of this story. Cross curricular links to animation, art, poetry.

Q.E.D. Beauty in Mathematical Proof

Burkard Polster

Australian Curriculum:  Description
Teaching ideas
Hooks for lessons. Introduction to new topics.

Sir Cumference and the Great Knight of Angleland

Cindy Neuschwander

Australian Curriculum:  Description

4-Compare angles and classify them as equal to, greater than, or less than, a right angle (ACMMG089); 5-Estimate, measure and compare angles using degrees. Construct angles using a protractor (ACMMG112); 6-Investigate, with and without digital technologies, angles on a straight line, angles at a point and vertically opposite angles. Use results to find unknown angles (ACMMG141)

Teaching ideas
Identifying, classifying and drawing angle. Games like acute-right-straight-obtuse (rock-paper-scissors)

Grandfather Tang’s Story: A tale told with tangrams

Ann Tompert

Australian Curriculum:  Description

ACMMG009; ACMMG010; ACMMG022; ACMMG042; ACMMG064; ACMMG088; ACMMG089; ACMMG091; ACMMG112; ACMMG113; ACMMG141; ACMMG142; ACMMG165; ACMMG166

Teaching ideas
Constructing tangrams, barrier games, jigsaws, tangram teasers, exploring triangles, oblongs, parallelograms, trapeziums, areas, polygons, hexagons, angles