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5. A Class Picnic

A Class Picnic

This unit has been developed around Nurragingy Reserve. A wide variety of opportunities were explored using an environment away from the classroom. The unit involves Measurement (length, area and time), Space and Geometry (position), Data, Number and Working Mathematically.

Follow Janice's journey as she developed and implemented her Mathematics unit.

Unit of work (PDF)

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Unit of work (FlashPaper)

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