1. To assist you with refining your own plan, we will look at an excellent resource providing an introduction to data handling. The plan for this learning experience is the one we looked at in Activity 5.

   Data handling introduction, a Grade 9 Activity (Grade depending on your local country curriculum)

   This activity will give you a good idea of what is possible (even if you are not teaching Grade 9)

   Now think about these questions:

• What do you think is the purpose of the first page?
• Who is the resource written to?
• Is the language used appropriate?
• Do you think the pictures on the first page give the resource any appeal?
• What is that appeal?
• Do you think the graphics are necessary?
• Why or why not?
• Do you think the resource looks well organised and purposeful?
• Is the style and numbering of the headings and sub-headings clear and consistent?
• Do you think the pages look too crowded or too empty?
• Which ones in particular?

2. Now Look at one of the units of work shown as examples here. For the unit you choose, answer the same questions as you did in point 1, - but this time you will be sending your answers to these questions to your tutor .

   Paper-based materials

• Data handling and probability, a Grade 9 Activity
• Introduction to Trigonometry, a Grade 10 Activity

  These 3 resources demonstrate how Excel can be used in interactive demonstrations of the properties of straight line graphs.)

• Graphs of Lines and Simultaneous Solutions (1)
• Graphs of Lines and Simultaneous Solutions (2)
• (Applications to supply and demand) The effect of arithmetic operations on a function

3. Send a message to your tutor (using ths subject heading "Review of resources") reporting on your review of the resources that you looked at. Include your answers to the questions in point 2.

To view more examples of resources click on the items listed below:

Printed resources:
The activities in this list include examples for Gr 4 - Gr 12.

Protec resources:
This list from Protec, is for Grade 10 level, but the approach will be of interest to all Maths educators - whoever thought teaching trinomials could lend itself to problem solving and investigation.

Mathematics website resources:
This page of websites has enough suggestions to last you a while! Most of the sites have their own search facilities, so you can look for the topic you need within the site.

Note: The resources and recommended websites on the CD are all well worth investigating (at leisure, when you have finished this module) and can provide ideas and much material for your new approach to Maths teaching.

In your e-diary, record your thoughts on the layout and presentation of a unit of work.