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Assessment overview

This assessment requires you to create a video presentation and write a rationale. The video will demonstrate an engaging maths activity using an everyday phenomena and the rationale will justify your choice and explain how this activity could be used with children.

This task is assessing your ability to demonstrate that you meet the criteria for the following unit learning outcomes:

1. Identify everyday phenomena that can be explained using mathematics.
2. Recognise and develop opportunities for numeracy and mathematics related experiences in play, and everyday experiences in early childhood settings.

Assessment details

Maths phenomenon: a fact, an impressive maths occurrence, a maths ‘miracle’ or an event which can be explained using maths.

This assessment is an opportunity for you to show how maths can be fun and used to explain an ‘everyday phenomenon’. You should choose a maths phenomenon which relates to one of the following topics:

• Nature (Week 5).
• Culture (Week 6).

There are two components to this task (Part A and Part B):

Part A

You are required to create a 5-minute video presentation that shows how you would use your selected phenomenon as the basis for a maths activity.

You can record your video using a video camera, smart phone or webcam. If you have any technical issues related to preparing your presentation, please communicate them to your eLA as promptly as possible.

In preparing your presentation you must:

• define the appropriate age group for your activity
• consider how you can physically engage your audience (i.e. engaging eye contact through the presentation).

Part B

Submit a 200-word rationale that justifies why you have chosen your particular phenomena and explains how you would apply the maths activity with children. This should also identify why it is appropriate for your intended audience, and describe any supporting resources.