Tasks | Early Adolescence

Tasks - Early Adolescence

This collection of graphics calculator material is designed to assist students, teachers and parents to utilise this exciting technology to maximise student learning outcomes.

These tasks represent a sample of activities that could be attempted with the aid of a graphics calculator. The tasks should be modified to reflect local needs.

If you use or quote from the following lesson plans, please acknowledge the author/s.

• Early Adolescence (Years 7 - 10)
  • Finances
  • The Internet Maths Hunt
  • Rate
  • Rolling Dice
  • Simultaneous Equations
  • Sporting League Tables
  • Surface Area

• Year 8
  • Simulations
  • Rule of Order 1
  • Rule of Order 2
  • Investigating Interger Operations
  • Investigating Order of Operations
  • Negative Numbers

• Years 9 & 10
  • Historical Matchings
  • Investigating Straight Lines
  • Quadratic Equations
  • Scale Issues
  • Simultaneous Equations

• Year 10
  • Equations of Quadratics
  • Exploring Pascal's Triangle
  • Infant Mortality
  • Investigating Powers

• Early - Late Adolescence (Years 10 - 12)
  • Birthday Problem
  • Box Plots
  • Change of Scale & Origin
  • Investigating The Sine & Cosine Curves
  • Investigating the Slope of a Line
  • Playing with a Graphic Calculator
  • Predicting Gold for Australia
  • Trinomials: X Intercepts of their Graphs