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These activities are free and cover a range of topics including how Australians use water, what sports are popular, and which countries did Australians who were not born here come from. You can view all the activities as webpages or download rich text files (RTF) and modify them to suit your needs. You can find more mathematic activities on the CensusAtSchool pages.

Get outside and explore geometry (and other math) all around you. A math trail is a walk with various stops where you look at math in the world around you, and ask questions about it.

These comprehensive math vocabulary lists are based on the Common Core State Math Standards and are organized by grade level. The lists are also organized by the key K12 Common Core math content categories (geometry, measurement & data, etc.). These hundreds of academic vocabulary lists, comprised of thousands of key math terms, can be used with all twenty-five of VocabularySpellingCity's learning activities.

"Students need many concrete experiences with fractions to develop a deep understanding of the three models of fractions: area, linear and set models. Teachers need to address all three models in well-designed instructional activities so that students develop a rich concept of fractions that they can use to make sense of numbers, operations, measurement and probability. "

"Looking around, there are lots of activities for collecting and analysing data using small boxes of Smarties. Here is my version. The package includes three worksheets to scaffold the collection and representation of data: Collecting Data - this is where the student collects their individual data and records the whole classes data. Collecting Data 2 - students take the whole class data and display in Frequency Distribution Tables. Representing Data - from the Frequency Distribution Tables, students create Frequency Histograms and Polygons. The Excel file is used by the teacher, on a projector/IWB, to collect the data in the class. It allows the teacher to collect the raw data and represent in Frequency Distribution Tables. "

The MathCounts Club Program provides enrichment activities and puzzles for 6th-8th grade math clubs within schools - and homeschool groups may join, too! Participants receive a free Club in a Box Resource Kit, which includes the Club Resource Guide, two game boards to accompany one of the meeting plans, 12 MathCounts pencils, and a MathCounts tote bag for the coach.

"ScienceDaily (Mar. 28, 2011) - By combining sophisticated mathematical techniques more commonly used by spies instead of scientists with the power and versatility of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), a Penn neurologist has developed a new approach for studying the inner workings of the brain. A hidden pattern is encoded in the seemingly random order of things presented to a human subject, which the brain reveals when observed with fMRI. The research is published in the journal NeuroImage."