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War on Waste - Teaching Primary Maths with Waste Audits

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Course Summary

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Course Content

Getting Started

Getting Started

01.

About this course

02.

Set some learning goals

Landfill and Recycling Waste

Landfill and Recycling Waste

03.

Mathematics education

04.

Using War On Waste to teach mathematics

05.

About landfill waste

06.

About recycling waste

07.

Analysing waste bills

08.

Measuring waste in bins and skips

09.

Graphing your findings

Litter

Litter

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Journey to the ocean

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Your school's litter

12.

Measuring and collecting litter data

Take Action

Take Action

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Taking learning further

14.

Using creativity to solve waste problems

15.

Using your maths learning to drive change

16.

Involving others

Your Teaching

Your Teaching

17.

Cool lesson plans - landfill and recycling

18.

Cool lesson plans - litter

Reflection

Reflection

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Reflection

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Taxonomy of learning

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Suggestions for collaboration

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Congratulations

Course Writer

Instructor 1

Mark Drummond from Cool Australia is your course teacher. He has worked in the education sector for over 11 years as a classroom teacher, Leader of Pedagogy within an Ed-Tech startup and as an educational consultant. Mark is an absolute science nerd and loves talking about dinosaurs as much as he loves talking about education (which is a lot)!

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