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1 online resource (streaming video file) (12 min. 12 sec.) ; 73457838 bytes |
| Summary |
It's National Swaggies' Day and Bunyip has decided to make money by selling billabong sand in little bottles at Bunyip's Bargain Bazaar. Swaggie helps out by tring to pour the sand into the bottles using a cylinder, but it does not work. they need something which is wide at the top and narrow at the bottom and eventually come up with a cone shape.The characters examine the features of a cone - a curved surface, one edge and one flat circular face - and observe that a cone will stand on its base, but not on its point - unless it spins. They explore the following mathematical concepts relating to cones:-Drawing 2D representations of cones; 2D nets from cones; slicing cones and examining the traingular and semicircular faces revealed and finding cone shpaes in the real world.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 2003-05-16 at 10:00:00 |
| Notes |
Classification: G |
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Cone -- Mathematical models.
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Geometry -- Study and teaching.
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Geometry, Solid -- Models.
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Shapes.
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Streaming video
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| Author |
Moss, John, director
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Cameron, Megan, cast
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Gates, Steven, cast
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