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Maths Achievement Challenge Topics
The TOPICS listed, will assist students and teachers to understand the nature of the investigations. |
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DYNAMIC NUMBER (Numeracy)
Topics: currency, fuel consumption, athletics and timing, scale drawings, analyzing our number system,
calculators, puzzles, fractions in everyday life, airline travel, pay rates, conversion of decimals / fractions / percentages, discounts, number lines. |
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NUMBER WHIZ (Numeracy)
Topics: household electricity a/c, area measurement, metric measurement, temperature statistics, digit order, junk mail, large numbers, glossary,
earning and budgets, 4 operations, fraction board, investments. |
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MATHS MEDLEY
Topics: shapes, sporting events, outdoor collage, G.S.T and junk mail, temperature, puzzles, glossary, earning money,
birthday parties, landscape design, games tournaments. |
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TECHNOLOGY
Topics: inventions, digital camera, technology in the home, sport, universal signs, cars and travel,
computer graphics, 3-D art, video production, pop design, home appliances. |
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TRAVEL
Topics: luggage, currencies, planning a trip, transport surveys, number plates, holidays, aircraft, cycle trails,
N.Z mapping, time zones, measurement of distances, orienteering. |
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TIME
Topics: clocks, time zones, codes, timelines, calendars, cultures, school week, digital and analogue time,
phases of the moon, daylight saving, measuring devices. |
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THE OUTDOORS
Topics: games, events, cross country, sports people, camping and tents, 3-D mazes, recreation surveys, rafting, tee-shirt design. |
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SPORT
Topics: surveys, games, costs, sports records, fitness, diets, performance, injuries, geometry. |
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3-D SHAPE
Topics: toys, structures, scale models, environment, kites, computer generated shapes, mobiles, graphics, packaging, Mauritus Escher diagrams. |
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2-D DESIGN
Topics: flags, perspective drawings and optical illusions, cultural designs, tangrams, tessellations, murals, stained glass windows, polygons. |
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GAMES & PUZZLES
Topics: chance, codes, maths whoppers, computer games, competitions, grids and co-ordinates, spinners, isometric
puzzles, maths trails, 2-D and 3-D games, class games. |
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ME, MYSELF & I
Topics: poems, songs and stories, measurement, celebrations, budgeting, posters, growth rates, family trees, body parts, timelines, puppets, time analysis. |
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CULTURAL MATHS
Topics: ancient civilizations, calculators, hangis, fashion, number systems, geometrical designs, games, scale models, musical rhythms, weights and measures. |
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COST OF LIVING
Topics: value for money, family expenses, redecorating, a bedroom, pocket money, shopping, clothing, investments, recreation costs,
money box savings, small business. |
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COOKING TECH
Topics: fast food, school canteen, barbeque aprons, favourite food, food packaging, budgeting, serviette folding, theme parties,
ice-cream 3 course meal, modern kitchens. |
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CRACAMAC Topics |
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NUMBER STAR
Topics: geometrical shapes, addition, patterns & relationships, odd / even numbers, number systems, definitions, surveys, greater than / less than, place value. |
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NUMBER NUT
Topics: fractions, wordfind, shapes, temperature, design, surveys, data, calculating, place value, reraltionships & patterns. |
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NUMBER CRUNCHER
Topics: time, frequency, glossary, games, shapes, songs, costing, basic facts, distances, volume & mass, surveys. |
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MATHS SMART
Topics: surveys & data, measurement of distance, 3D shapes, money boxes, flag design, patterns, geometry, wordfinds, temperature, area, chance & probability. |
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