1. Exploring SPACE Tuesday May 16 2006 Armidale CEO

2. What is Space?

3. What do students think?

4. What do parents think?

5. What are your concerns?

6. Why teach SPACE?

7. Who needs it? architectsmechanics designer architectsmechanics designer engineersdancerslandscaper engineersdancerslandscaper surveyortown plannercarpenter surveyortown plannercarpenter

8. When do we use it? Fractions Ball games Dress patterns Moving furniture Reading roadmaps Decorating Interpreting diagrams Driving a car Tying knots

9. What’s new in the Syllabus?

10.  No symmetry ES1  Prisms S1  Angles S1  No blunt, sharp angles  8 compass points S2  Visualising  No knots  No isometric drawings

12. Properties of shape Holistic recognition of shape Classification of shapes, attending Classification of shapes, attending to visual features to visual features Identification of classes of shapes Identification of classes of shapes by some properties by some properties Definition of shapes Definition of shapes using properties using properties

13. Visualising and orienting Static, pictorial images formed in conjunction with models or manipulativesStatic, pictorial images formed in conjunction with models or manipulatives Re-orientation of shapes mentallyRe-orientation of shapes mentally Dynamic imageryDynamic imagery Extending, applyingExtending, applying

14. What’s the area? 1 2.2 1.7 3.2 1.2 0.3 0.08

15. Space is a verb

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17. Assessing Space

18. What’s in a triangle?

19. What are the implications for my school?

20. Exploring SPACE Tuesday May 16 2006 Armidale CEO