2009+Year+9+Project

=Year 9 Project 2009= = [|Key Competency] Focus: Participating and Contributing. Relating to Others. = In this project you are also developing the other Key Competencies of Thinking, Using language, symbols and text and Managing self.

Class Presentations on Period 4 3rd December, Period 5 4th December and Period 6 07th December. Grades may be emailed to parents. You will be marked on: **1. Content; 2. Delivery; 3. Presentation materials used and uploaded onto Edmodo and 4. Group Work.** You will get Achieved, Merit or Excellence for each of the four areas, and to gain an Excellence grade you will need to get Excellence in three areas and at least Merit in the fourth.

1. Get a group of 1 to 4 people. Groups of 1 can not gain Excellence. 2. Choose a topic relating to [|Probability] or From the Year 8 Project. For example [|The Monty Hall Problem]. 3. You must research the topic. For example When/How/Why/Who/What. 4. Your job is to teach the rest of the class by way of 10 minute presentation including a data display. 5. Load your presentation materials in to [|edmodo] class web site. 7. Get a friend to video your presentation and place it on the class edmodo site too! 8. Depth of learning and peer tuition is the aim - not just a bit of FUN!
 * 6. Present it in a fun way to the class and teach everyone something new. When you teach your peers you are Participating and Contributing . When you work in a group you are Relating to Others .**

=Some ideas to get you started=

[|Games]

=UFO Dice Race Simulation= Introduction to Probability is via the Simulation downloaded from the teacher resource exchange. [|Link] Then students fill in a table to calculate the probability of each UFO winning. The activity is extended by using the following link. [|More Dice Simulation]





=Monty Hall Problem= media type="youtube" key="mhlc7peGlGg" height="405" width="500" media type="youtube" key="cXqDIFUB7YU" height="525" width="660" [|Simulation] [|Explaination]



[|Virtual Dice]

Marion Steel: 13th June Virtual Cards and Dice in a cool excel spreadsheet

=Nice Dice=

Christmas Maths

[|Santa's Sack] [|Xmas Tree] [|Chris maths] [|North Pole] [|Santa Sleigh] [|Xmas Eve] [|xmas day] [|Christmas Maths]