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Session 8 Piara Waters - Andrea and Jasmine and Vanessa! Year 7 Maths

by Andrea Rassell,

Warm Up

Variable Storytelling

Remember how with algebra where letters stand in for numbers and you apply multiplication, division, subtraction, addition to both sides to find an unknown number?

In your rows, create a collaborative story where x and y represent characters or objects.

Each student adds to the story using "Yes, and..." while incorporating algebraic relationships (e.g., "x was twice as tall as y," "Yes, and when x grew by 3, y also grew by 1.5").

No photo as this was chatting in rows and couldn’t get a faceless one!

Main Activity (one photo)

Max MSP demo - maths is behind the fun AV stuff!

Scale / fogger - make this pixel 2-100 x wider
Mix fader +-/*
Delayer: if Delay (D) = 63 then divide playback SPEED (S) is quarter of the speed. S = 900 / D

Station 1: Algebraic sonification

Task: Describe what you think the unknown letter in the formula below sounds like, if it were a sound instead of a letter.

Properties of sound might you use to describe them:

Loud/quiet (volume)
Fast/slow (rhythm)
Happy/sad (specific notes)
Grainy/smooth (texture)

Solve the problems in your textbook and describe what the unknown letter sounds like.

Station 2: Recording a statistic for our video

Choose one:

In Australia, about 1 in 6 adults experience food insecurity.
In Australia, 1.2 million children experience food insecurity.
Around 10% of Australians experience food insecurity.
Around 29% indigenous Australians experience food insecurity.
Oz Harvest has helped feed one hundred and fifty thousand people.
Australian supermarkets throw away 3 million tonnes of food every year!

Reflection with the students (one photo)

Final term reflection - look at jar of sand and reflect on the journey, discuss the goal/focus for next term.

Today we used collaboration, imagination and persistence. And next term we want to focus on imagination, discipline, more collaboration and to be quiet!

Planning with the Teacher
(refer back to your original Term Plan document, discuss successes, explore challenges and make changes.)

Today worked well with the students doing maths problems and describing the parts of the formula with sound. They also enjoyed recording the food stats for our video.

Working with students
(what is emerging, what is engaging them/not, what’s making them curious.)

Engaged in the idea of sound. Maths being the background of creative sound tools.

Students identified their weakness as listening and this beign part of collaboration. Attention signals: la la lava, chi chi chi chicken that Jasmine uses are great, certain students are disruptive. Andrea to think on how to support listening and attention through collaboration next term.

Ideas moving forward
(ideas for next session, future lessons, discussed with teacher, do you need the teacher to do anything before you return.)

One session in library for recording sound and to encourage chilled listening.

Andrea to think more on how to support listening and attention through collaboration next term.

Resources
(do you need anything, who will source it?)

Andrea to build max tool if time, this is a lot of custom development work (3-5 days) so will do my best. Not sure how else to produce creative work quickly.

How can you share learning outcomes/stories of transformation with the wider school community (e.g. Connect newsletter, staff meeting, school newsletter, school social media platforms)

School facebook

Compass (intranet) to raise awareness with families

Andrea and Jasmine to share photos with each other via google drive