Cubic Formula

EDMA 478/518

• Week 2

• Session 1
Brief introduction to the Senior Australian
Curriculum
• The Australian Senior Secondary Maths Curriculum

Mathematics Curriculum 3
Planning a unit of work

Chris Longhurst
Unit of work – More useless maths???
What is a unit plan ?
• A program of work covering approximately 3 - 4 weeks (12 – 16
lessons)
• Master plan which directs what you will teach
• It is not lesson plans
What do you put in it?
• Content Allocation - outcomes
• Timing
• Resources
• Special Events
• Introduction
• Assessment
• Glossary - language
 Where do you get it?

• School program – outline of content and timing

• May be just syllabus references
• Syllabus – for detail
• Teaching approaches – that’s your professionalism
Structure
• overview of unit with:

grade and general time

• general knowledge/skills and working
mathematically outcomes or higher order
thinking outcomes
• resources (with references)
• Assessment
• Evaluation
 Unit sequence

• specific content outcomes from syllabus proper

• a logical, learning centred approach.
• strategies which :
• promote thinking
• use problem solving/ question types / modelling
• are student centred
• teaching ideas/ research covered in different topics
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pages 36 - 37
Assessment
• No more than 2
• varied (unit outline) - work samples an idea;
• linked to outcomes (pages 106 - 113)
• criteria and marking scale
• need for discrimination within questions not just across questions
• need to assess more than recall or rote learnt procedures (eg: working
mathematically)

• BOS Assessment resource centre

 Resources
• varied - not high reliance on one text

• selective - not just grab

• Need to plan for special events

• Technology – a must ?
 Introduction
• Introductory lesson required
• Methods Of Introduction
• Story Or History
• Activity
• Problem
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Relate To The World
Competition – reward system
THE WHY
• Do something different
Conclusion

• Unit of work – what and how

• Importance of introduction
• Build around good resources
• Use of technology
• Stage 5 assessment – how difficult?
This Week

• What is to be done

• TfA

• 518 online

• Leo