| Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) (13 min. 14 sec.) ; 79648995 bytes |
| Summary |
The mischievous Bunyip has designed a ten pin bowls set, featuring a small ramp and ten miniature pins that look like Swaggie. She is having a problem though because she cannot find the special shaped object needed to roll down the ramp and knock over the pins. She tries shapes like boxes, but they don't go far enough. Even though Swaggie is not amused by her game of knocking Swaggie look-a-likes over, he helps Bunyip by suggesting a sphereThe sphere works because its curved surface allows it to roll. The two characters explore the following mathematical concepts relating to spheres and circles:Testing suitability of spheres for stacking; Cutting spheres into discs and hemispheres; cutting circles into semicircles; creating patterns by flipping, sliding and turning semicircles and tracing the dndpoint of a radius to make a circle.This mathematics series for lower-middle primary students explores 2D and 3D shapes. In a fantasy bushland setting two characters, Bunyip and Swaggie, playfully explore the qualities of various shapes making the concepts accessible to young children. The series is designed to support learning in Band A and levels one, two and three of the Space Strand in the Mathematics Curriculum Profile and Statement for Australian Schools.Each program investigates a different 3D object by examining its attributes, nets and functions; exploring the shapes of the faces; slicing, turning and transforming the shape; looking at 2D representations of the 3D shapes and finding examples of the shapes in the real world.Learning Outcomes:Interprets common spatial language and whe4n prompted, uses it to describe the shape of things;Pays attention to shape when drawing or building things remembered, imagined, seen or handled;Generates patterns and follows rules based on the simple repetition and movement of things; andPays attention to the shape and placement of parts when matching, making and copying things, including matching nets with 3D shapes |
| Event |
Broadcast 2003-04-11 at 10:00:00 |
| Notes |
Classification: G |
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Circle.
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Geometry -- Study and teaching (Primary)
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Shapes.
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Space perception in children.
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Three-dimensional imaging.
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Australia.
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Streaming video
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| Author |
Moss, John, director
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