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Geometry Strand

Week 1

  Topic
Day 1 Introduction to GSP
Day 2 What is a circle?
Day 3 Circumference and discovering Pi
Day 4 & 5 Area of a circle


  Week 2

  Topic
Day 1 More about pi
Day 2 & 3 Activity 1: The Internet Pizza Server
Day 4 & 5 Scaling and similarity


  Week 3

  Topic
Day 1 & 2 Scale drawing
Day 3 Activity 2 - Application of similarity
Day 4 Activity 3 - Application of similarity and scaling
Day 5 Assessment activity- Looking for the missing capstones


 
 



Statistics: Data Analysis & Probability Strand

Week 4

  Topic
Day 1 Introduction (Introduction CBL; activity: using CBL as data collecting tool)
Day 2 Raising questions and collecting data from different characteristics
Day 3 Introduction to statistical charts using MS-Excel
Day 4 Activity (designing and deciding statistical graphs)
Day 5 Graphing and presenting data in appropriate charts

 

Week 5

  Topic
Day 1 & 2 Finding and interpreting statistic from the collecting data
Day 3 Activity (Statistics in the real world)
Day 4 & 5 What is probability? (activity: rolling dice to get outcomes)

 

Week 6 

  Topic
Day 1 & 2 Computing probabilities and testing conjectures of the results
Day 3 & 4 Activity (probability in the real world)
Day 5 Case study and discussion