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DIY World Records 22 Reviews

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Paula
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How high was student engagement throughout this kit?
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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Linked closely with our unit on Commonwealth Games. Also linked with instructional writing. Discussions around fairness.
What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? None so far
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How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Measurement- time and length
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“Beautiful, exciting resource. I found some of it a bit hard to follow, and it took a lot more time than I expected.”
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Posted 2 years ago
Sarah L
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How high was student engagement throughout this kit?
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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Linked with a mini Inquiry about the Commonwealth Games. Time constraints limited further cross curricular learning.
What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Students could re-do their challenges with a greater depth of thinking about how to measure their challenges.
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How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Students followed the Statistical Investigation process (PPDAC) and measurement (mostly time based).
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“Highly engaging - the class loved creating and running their own world record challenges.”
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Posted 2 years ago
Rosie
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How high was student engagement throughout this kit?
Very Low
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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? The children tended to make up records that involved physical movements. They were then completing the records and using their mathematical knowledge to find results.
What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Would like to look more at sports technology.
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How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Helped kids to think carefully about the best way to measure things, do we time it, or is it distance?
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Posted 2 years ago
Laura
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How high was student engagement throughout this kit?
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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Student were motivated to improve their fitness levels to beat the records and to improve their ball skills or skipping ability. Balance became a talking point so we spoke about core strength, crossing the midline and fine and gross motor control. Childre
What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Most importantly the students have a 'can do' attitude after participating in this kit. World records seemed so unattainable but now they know that it is possible to reach this height. The math that they used made math something less academic and more rel
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How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Children had to remember how to measure correctly, both time and pineal measurements. They learnt to work out a rate during an activity to see if they were likely to beat an existing record.
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“Thank you for another awesome kit, my students always enjoy this one! They love trying to break the existing records and feel so empowered when they realise that they could possibly make a new record. It's heaps of fun, creative and usually gets them moving so a big win!”
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Posted 2 years ago
Scott
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How high was student engagement throughout this kit?
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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Patience, perseverance, sharing ideas and resources were all evident as was tenacity and a little competitiveness to hold a record. Good opportunity to write uing adverbs and adjectives for structured purpose - literacy.
What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? We will revisit the kit to build on the math and literacy concepts that have been used so far. Great kit, Thanks very much from Korimako 2 @ Ōhoka school
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How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Kit really helped to see previous maths learning real world fun situations. Use of timers and measuring tapes were great hands on tools to help students see measurement in action as part of their record attempts.
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Posted 2 years ago
Teresa
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How high was student engagement throughout this kit?
Very Low
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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Enjoyed the digital tech components.
What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Go back and look at making their own world records at a later date
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How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Linked well to strand, brought in mean, median and mode, practising of basic facts
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“Kids enjoyed the tasks and learning about different world records. Was really good to see what Maths could fall out of the kit.”
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Posted 2 years ago
Rebecca
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How high was student engagement throughout this kit?
Very Low
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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Mostly P.E and Maths.
What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Tied in well with commonwealth games.
How many DIY World Records did your class make?
How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Measuring, counting, timing.
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Posted 2 years ago
Rachael
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What cross curricular learning came about as a result of this kit? Great cross curricular resource that inspired great engagement
What future learning opportunities have arisen from this kit? Statistical investigations, reading and interpreting graphs, measurement benchmarks.
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How did the kit components encourage mathematical thinking for your students? Great for developing measurement and statistical skills
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“Fantastic way to get kids to challenge themselves while learning a lot about measurement and statistics.”
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Posted 2 years ago
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