Unit H1: Big Day Out

Objectives of the Big Day Out:

• To engage Indigenous students and their teachers in context based activities that promote mathematics and Aboriginal culture.
• To provide students with an opportunity to experience a different perspective of mathematics.
• To experience mathematics as a creative process.

Click the links below to download this unit of learning:

1. Big Day Out overview (DOCX 209kB) with activities, timetable, and slideshow below.

2. Lesson Plans for

• iPad Activity–"Finding Maths Everywhere" (DOCX 80kB)

View the presenation for "Maths is everywhere" below:

• Storytelling Activity–"Maths in Storytelling" DOCX 200kB)

• Basketball Activity–"Strategy in Sport" (DOCX 200kB)

Want to know more about the Big Day Out?

• Go to the Cluster focus
• See Chris Matthews' significant episode Big day out I
• See Andrew Peters' significant episode Big day out II.