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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? It supported our literacy programme and coincided with our school athletics standards day.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? This kit appealed and engaged only some of the learners in our class.

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How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? It supported measurement, statistical literacy programmes. Good practical use of applying and comparing units of measurement. Collecting and displaying data.

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“A well resourced kit.”

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Posted 2 years ago

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Cross curricular included: growth mindset, co-operation, critical thinking, taking risks, The children worked well in their groups and loved implementing their world record.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? This kit lead nicely onto our unit on growing and changing - what our bodies can do (movement)

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How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? I feel this time in my unit there was a lot of focus on organization and participation, I can see how there would be a high content on math next time when I complete this unit including measurement, counting, numbers to 100,

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“This was quite a hard unit to do with very young juniors. I think next time we would not separate into so many groups and perhaps did do three or four world records. It was hard to complete all world records with all children at this age as they had to be supervised all the time to be fair on participants. We did enjoy this unit in the end, and learned about how world records began, how to make one, and using a growth mindset to complete them. I think next time instead of focusing on organization, I will be able to focus deeper on the aspect of math and growth mindset. I would do this unit again.”

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Posted 2 years ago

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Thinking creatively, problem solving, working as a team and supporting each other were major components of this unit.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? More teamwork related learning could take place to build on the learning that took place during this unit.

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How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? The timers are difficult to use because you don't get a precise time from them, we ended up using ipads to time things. The measuring tapes would be more useful if they were exactly 1 meter long as this would be easier for our students to use. We did a re

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“This kit was a lot of fun for the class. We didn't end up using the definition cards, they were a bit confusing. We just had them write out what their world record was going to be and how they would measure it in their books to refer back to. It took quite a lot of time and scaffolding to get each child to arrive at a world record that they could actually attempt at school, and then several more sessions to attempt the records. It seemed that the most interesting learning that took place during this unit was around working together in groups to complete the record attempts (observing, recording, timing, making sure each person had what they needed, etc.). Overall the students seemed to really enjoy it and it brought out quite a lot of creativity. We didn't end up challenging each other's records because it took so much time and organization for everyone to complete their's once.”

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Posted 2 years ago

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? The children love the active maths! We did it in maths time but of course it was a lot of outside and moving around which juniors enjoy.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? None identified as yet.

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How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? it connected very well to measurement and application of general mathematical thinking/problem solving.

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“We got this kit for our Year 2's. They loved the concept and once we were underway they were very engaged with the content too. I did find navigating the online teacher resource/info tricky and not logical. I also hard to hunt around a lot to work out how to even attack this, especially as I had to adapt it for juniors even though it was advertised as a suitable kit for this age- it wasn't set up for them though.”

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Posted 2 years ago

How high was student engagement throughout this kit?

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Used as STEM tasks

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Problem solving and reasoning inspiration

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How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Helped students see that there can be more than one way of doing something.

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“Great kit and the kids really enjoyed using it and learning about the records”

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Posted 2 years ago

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Was an interesting mini-inquiry, I'd highly recommend it.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Not sure yet.

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How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Practical and an interesting way of integrating the strand of measurement.

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“This kit was inspiring and has lots of great resources (once I unpacked the instructions to understand what to do). It was popular and gave the students inspiration to investigate real-life maths.”

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Posted 2 years ago

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? The kit encouraged students to think outside the classroom space, to take their learning and apply it to real-world contexts for them. The kits also supported competition between the students individually and to collective goals.

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Future records we could try.

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How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Analysis of time and distance - taking accurate measurements, comparing and making statements. Graphing data

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“The kit was a great match to our statistics learning and provided an interesting real-life context for the class. The children were able to investigate, learn and apply their knowledge through the kit.”

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Posted 2 years ago

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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? I love anything that builds vocab. This is a weak area for many when we do Probe testing

What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? More work on Stats. Mean median and mode

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How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? It is all about measuring and being precise. Tip...where do you start measuring from on the ruler...

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“We loved this kit. Lots of practical hands on learning alongside building brilliant vocabulary”

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Posted 2 years ago

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