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Thursday, 21 January 2010

Maths Maps

Over at edte.ch blog, Tom Barrett has been encouraging people to get involved with Maths Maps, a collaborative initative to create classroom resources that you are invited to contribute to. The idea is to put mathematical or numeracy activities and questions into real world maps, for example in the shapes or numbers of objects found there. Currently there are maps available for Measures in Madrid, Shapes in Paris and Data Handling in Nottingham. And I have seen that the idea is being taken up by others too.

There is a blog post explaining the idea here, "Maths Maps – A New Collaborative Project". Tom is featured in an article in the Guardian NCETM supplement "Do the Maths" as "How to use Google Maps in maths teaching".

Here is the Nottingham Data Handling map:


View 7 Data Handling Activities in Nottingham in a larger map
Posted by Peter Rowlett at 11:25.

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