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ESM410 Assignment 1:
Problem Pictures Task - Creating openended questions
Student Name: Alicia Mcvean
Student Number: 212122287
Campus: Burwood
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SIGNED: Alicia Mcvean
DATE: 20/08/15
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Checklist
All points must be ticked that they are completed before submission.
Requirements checklist:
Tick
completed
Yes
Yes
yes
yes
yes
Developed an original question for each photo with an accompanying enabling and
extending prompt.
yes
If your photo has numbers that you are referring to in the problem, the numbers MUST
be clearly visible to be able to read in the photo.
yes
yes
Matched each problem with the appropriate mathematical content, year, definition and
code from the Australian Curriculum: Mathematics
yes
yes
yes
Reflecting on the trialling of the questions with an appropriately aged child or children.
Yes
Yes
yes
Problem pictures were collated into a word document using the assignment template.
yes
Yes
Yes
In order to pass this assignment you must have fulfilled all aspects of the checklist.
The benefits of open- ended problem pictures enables students to critically analyse pictures and intemperate them
in their own way. For example open ended pictures, actively engages learners in thinking about the situation, and
therefore enhances the potential for construction on new knowledge; (Sullivan, 2015). The use of open ended
problem pictures gets students engaged with the problem and gets them to look at the problem in a different angle.
The use of open ended problem questions can really engage students within the classroom. For example, the use of
visually seeing a problem can help a student be engaged and to be able to help them connect mathematics to the
real world.
Bragg & Nicoll (2011) states that open ended problem photos does come with challenges but it can enchase childs
ability to see mathematics in a different light and for students to connect with mathematics in different way. The use
of photographs in the classroom and outside the classroom can benefit the students as they are able to connect with
the pictures to mathematical problems. More importantly the use of open ended problem pictures is beneficially for
both the student and the teacher. The reason for this is because it enables students to work at their own pace and
create their own answers based on their interpretation of the open-ended problem picture. Also challenges us as
teachers to critically think about how we can use these pictures to produce a mathematic problem.
The use of using open ended problem pictures offers opportunities for extension of mathematical thinking, since
students can explore a range of options as well as consider forms of generalised response. (Sullivan, 2015). Students
can explore their own thinking and they can challenge their prior knowledge of the context. Open ended problem
pictures allows students to see it differently. For example, Different representations for an idea can lead us to
different ways of understanding and using that idea. (Reys et al 2012, p. 103) The use of this enables students to see
a different way of understanding a problem using a picture. Also open ended problems allow the children to work at
different levels of complexity and in different directions. (Sparrow 2008). It gives students the opportunity to work
at their own pace and allows them to work in different directions with their mathematics.
Open-ended problem- pictures will really benefit myself as a teacher in the future as it will enable my students to be
critical thinkers and to be able to be engaged in meaningful way. It will also challenge myself as a teacher to be
reflective and to always have my students interest in mind. In the future I will use this strategy within the classroom
to allow my students to use open ended problem questions to enable their understanding of a concept. The use of
this will support my teaching in many meaningful ways. For example I always want my students to be able to connect
their own learning through their experiences, so using open ended problem questions will always relate back to their
own interest and experiences.
Problem Picture 1
Location:
Answers to Question 1
Answer One:
Or
Or
=$10.50
Enabling Prompt
Using the notes and coins provided, show what $10.50 would be.
Answer Two:
AusVELS
Content strand/s, year, definition and code
Money and financial mathematic: Year Two
Count and order small collections of Australian coins and notes according to their value (ACMNA034)
Extending Prompt
If I gave you $25 for this object in the picture, how much change would I get back?
=$14.50
Answer Two:
=$14.50
Answer Three:
=$14.50
AusVELS
Content strand/s, year, definition and code
Money and financial mathematic: Year Four
Solve problems involving purchases and the calculation of change to the nearest five cents with and without digital
technologies (ACMNA080)
Cross-Curriculum Links
For this photo you can use a number of different cross-curriculum links. For example one cross-curriculum link that
could be used for this photo is history. Students can create an annotated timeline ( ACARA, 2013) of how
Australian money has changed over time. This will show students understanding of the history of money and to be
able to represent key stages for the development of Australian money. They can date all the way back to when
Australian money was first created. Using this photo you can get students to look at the price of the item in the
photo and they then can go off and have a look at what Australian money looks like today and what it used to look
like. They can describe the characteristics of the money and if Australian money has changed.
AusVELS - Cross-curriculum
Cross-curriculum area, Content strand/s, year, definition and code
Chronology, terms and concepts: History- Sequence historical people and events (ACHHS065)
Year level three.
Original Question:
Using this photo show how many ways you can make this number using coins and notes.
Question 2
Using this picture, draw and list the 3D shapes you see.
Answers to Question 2
Answer One:
Cube
Answer Two
Pyramid
Cylinder
Rectangular prism
Enabling Prompt
Name or draw the shapes that you see in this picture.
Answer two:
Answer three:
1. Triangle
2. Square
3. Irregular hexagon
5. Rectangle
AusVELS
Content strand/s, year, definition and code
Shape: Year two
Describe and draw two-dimensional shapes, with and without digital technologies (ACMMG042)
Extending Prompt
Name or draw the 3D shapes you see in the picture and explain each shapes faces and edges
Faces=6
Edges= 12
Cylinder
Faces=3
Edges= 2
Faces=5
Edges= 8
Rectangular prism
Faces=6
Edges= 12
Answer Two:
Cube- 6 faces and 12 edges
Pyramid- 5 faces and 8 edges
Rectangular prism- 6 Faces and 12 Edges
Cylinder- 3 face and 2 edges
Answer three:
6 faces
12Edges
3 faces
2 Edges
AusVELS
Content strand/s, year, definition and code
Insert content strand/s, year, definition and code here
Shape: Year Three
Make models of three-dimensional objects and describe key features (ACMMG063)
Cross-Curriculum Links
For this picture using the cross- curriculum area of English you can get students to critically think about using the
photo of the park and creating an imaginative text based on a memory of the time they went to the park. Students
can use this photo to help stimulate old memories of the times that they spent at the park. They can base their
imaginative text off this photo and create a piece of work that they can share with the class. They can all share their
own experience, perspective and angle of the times spent at the park. Also they can Create imaginative texts based
AusVELS - Cross-curriculum
Cross-curriculum area, Content strand/s, year, definition and code
Insert cross-curriculum area (e.g. Science, English etc.), content strand/s, year, definition and code here
English
Literature- Create imaginative texts based on characters, settings and events from students own and other cultures
using visual features, for example perspective, distance and angle (ACELT1601) Year level 3
Original Question:
Using this picture, draw and list the 3D shapes you see.
Question 3
Using this picture of the different fruits on the plate create a survey.
Answers to Question 3
Answer One:
Favourite Fruit
Number of friends.
Apple
Banana
Strawberry
Mandarin
Answer two:
How many fruits are there?
Fruit
Number
Apple
Banana
Strawberry
Mandarin
Answer three
Fruit
Banana
Mandarin
Apple
Strawberry
Tally
Enabling Prompt
Create a picture graph using these fruit.
Apple
Mandarin
Banana
Strawberry
Picture graph
2.5
1.5
0.5
0
Banana
Person One
Answer Three:
Apple =5
Strawberry =3
Mandarin =2
Apple
Person Two
Mandarin
Person Three
Person Four
Strawberry
Person Five
AusVELS
Content strand/s, year, definition and code
Collect, check and classify data (ACMSP049) Year Two
Extending Prompt
Create survey questions or the most effective method of collecting data using this picture of fruit.
Answer Two:
Survey questions:
What fruit do you like the least?
Whats your favourite fruit?
What fruit did you have in your lunch today?
How many fruit are in the fruit ball?
Do you think fruit should be in everybodys lunch box?
Is fruit better than chocolate?
What fruit do you eat the most?
Answer Three:
What is your favourite fruit?
Favourite fruit
Apple
Banana
Mandarin
Strawberry
AusVELS
Content strand/s, year, definition and code
Data representation and interpretation, Year four
Select and trial methods for data collection, including survey questions and recording sheets (ACMSP049)
Cross-Curriculum Links
A cross-curriculum link that could be used for this photo is science. Getting students to use this photo of fruit to
conduct questions about an experiment they can use for each of the fruit or all fruit. For example, choosing
questions to investigate from a list of possibilities, jointly constructing questions that may form the basis for
investigation, listing shared experiences as a whole class and identifying possible investigations and working in
groups to discuss things that might happen during an investigation (ACARA 2012). Students can conduct a set of
questions they could conduct for an experiment using 'the bowl of fruit and use possible estimations.
AusVELS - Cross-curriculum
Cross-curriculum area, Content strand/s, year, definition and code
Science
Questioning and predicting : With guidance, identify questions in familiar contexts that can be investigated
scientifically and predict what might happen based on prior knowledge (ACSIS053) Year level three.
Original Question:
Using this picture of the different fruits on the plate create a survey.