Week 1

Class session
Week 2 - Focus - developing awareness in thinking and working as a mathematician

Whole class discussion
1. Key questions - Who is a mathematician? How do we know?

Mathematicians - Bureau of Labor Statistics www.bls.gov/ooh/math/mathematicians.htm

Mathematicians work with formulas to help solve problems in industry, academia, and government. Mathematicians use advanced mathematics to develop and understand mathematical principles, analyze data, and solve real-world problems.

* Possible responses think about maths, find maths in usual day, plans and persist.

2. Using the process below and students image- mangrove seedlings 

Ask what problem might we formulate from this picture? Together or individually create a problem 

1. Return to whole group - Classify problem across the three types (see below)  1/2/3?

Process  - OFTARP

Observe the idea/ picture with a mathematical lens

Formulate your thinking

Test out your thinking - self 

Advice from others , can they make sense of your thinking , gather other ways to solve - most efficient 

Rethink; add to, refine or reduce

Publish 

Classify problems 

1. Calculation - can work in head or on paper

2. Non-typical - adds another aspect to calculation - structure, shape, time,mass, length, area, fractions, money, chance, patterns 

3. Investigative - more / harder thinking / decisions involved , multistep, not obvious / direct / straight forward, more than a calculation, can have more than one solution.