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Isaac Anoom looks at the maths involved in travelling. Maths expert Isaac Anoom covers speed, time, petrol consumption and traffic flow, when he looks at using different kinds of transport to get from London to Plymouth.

Example of numeracy related to travel.

Some of the other resources I have come across since my last post that you might find useful are: Apptivities - A great website with reviews and activity ideas for the use of apps by educators organized by grade level. Math Apps - Top 10 Apps to use in Math class on the iPod Touch. Apps for Educators - Top 200 iPad Apps in the United States for Educators Digital Storytelling with the iPad 38 Interesting ways to use the iPad in the Classroom 28 Interesting ways to use the iPod Touch in the Classroom iPods, iPhones and iPads in Education Teach with your iPad The Best iPhone apps for Kids, 2010 50 Must Have Educational Apps iPod and iPad Usergroup Wiki

"Ten maths sequences filmed during a cricket match. Cricket is a game based on numbers and maths, offering questions about how fast a ball travels, how high, what the score is, and why cricket pitches are often oval."

An example of numeracy related to the game of cricket.

Mathcast Spaces: Thinking, Doing, and Sharing Mathematics Out Loud

Example of how Voicethread and screen recording can be used to capture students' learning in Mathematics.

Dan Meyer explains how the use of multimedia in classrooms about real life problems can engage students in numeracy discussions.

A good video to explain the rationale for creating a short video as a stimulus for numeracy discussions in classrooms (assignment 1).

Statistics and Probability These lessons are geared toward the elementary aged students - 3rd to 6th grades. Very practical and real life problems.

Melanie interviews long-serving teacher Desi Pontikinas about her experiences teaaching maths and Numeracy across two generations and what it is like to adapt with developing technologies. 

Details about and links to segments of movies that involve mathematics.

Man slides down a steep slope, gets airborne and lands in small kiddy pool.

For your amusement :-)

Support your child's numeracy skill development at home K-4.

A great video to share with parents of K-4 children as part of a classroom blog.

Here you will find five different graphs and charts for you to consider. Not sure about which graph to use? Confused between bar graphs and pie charts? Read our: Create A Graph Tutorial

Furbles started life as an idea for teaching statistics in an interesting way with children from KS1 to KS3. The original version was published in 2003 online, and its popularity spread. It has been downloaded and used over 20,000 times in the last five years.

Johnny Rabbit orders lunch from the school canteen and we follow how much change he gets

This is an numeracy based educational video on money. To appeal to an early primary years' age group we set the video in the school canteen using a toy bunny (Johnny Rabbit) in place of a child, which allows children to relate better to the character while exploring the concepts of money and numeracy (The Australian Curriculum Assessment And Reporting Authority) . (ACMNA017, ACMNA034, ACMNA059). This video could be used as an initial exploration into money, with the ability of delving into more in-depth questions as the students become proficient with the concepts.

A Numeracy Stimulus Video to be used during a Measurement or Fractions unity of study within a Numeracy primary curriculum.

Numeracy and ICT: cooking by numbers, an introduction to measurement, through volume and capacity.

This is our educational video about connections between numeracy (measurement) and the community (cooking).

loved this one girls....would definitely use this one in my classroom, kids will love it!!! well done

This is Lisa and Laura's video that interviews a teacher about an addition game that she uses in her class.

This article provides a great reflective insight to the integration of Web 2.0 based tools in the classroom with literacy.

This is a video created for educational purposes that focuses on numeracy, money and addition in particular.

This is a video created for education purposes.