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Math Fair 2011Year 10 Extension

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What is the Math Fair?

It is an exhibition of projects presented by

Year 10 students to the rest of the school.

You will be in pairs for this project and you

have a free choice on what the project is

about.

BUT it must contain mathematical workappropriate to your level or above EXTENSION or above.

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Who takes part?

All of Year 10 are to do this project in

pairs.

The Mathematics teachers jointly mark

each project which should be presented to

them by you.

Other students and teachers are invited to

come to the Fair and to ask you questions

about your project.

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Why are we doing this?

Planning, investigating, making findingsand judgments, proving statementsandpresenting your workare all key skills in

life. They are particularly useful in

Mathematics and assessed at IGCSE andIB level.

You are doing this to prepare you for suchassessment.

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Where will it be held?

In the hall.

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When will it be?

The Math Fair will be

held on Thursday 21st

April 2011 between

Periods 1 and 5.

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How do I start?

Firstly you will either be paired by your teacher or givena choice of who you work with.

The next stage is for each pair to discuss ideas andcome up with an outline plan of what your project isabout.

IT MUST HAVE APPROPRIATE MATHEMATICALCONTENT AT EXTENSION LEVEL AND ABOVE.

You then submit to your teacher a proposal form whichwill either be accepted or declined. This process needsto be completed with all project ideas accepted by Friday25th March 2011.

If you are struggling for ideas, start by thinking whatareas of Mathematics you are both good at or interestyou, then think how you could apply that to a situation.

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What happens next?

You will be given a short amount of lesson

time to work on this project.

Most of the time needs to be spent out of

lessons on this.

You need to eventually have the project

presentation ready for the Fair.

You may also use various technological

equipment if you wish.

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How is it marked?

The project is marked by your teachers(judges) in the following sections:

Mathematical Content

Diagrams Explanations

Organisation

Conclusions Extension

Presentation

Question/Answer Session with Judge

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Mathematical Content

Diagrams

Explanations

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Organisation

Extension

Q&A Session

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Presentation

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The total mark is 50.

You do not have to do a poster. You may

present your project in any way you wish. However if you are struggling Do a poster!

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How will this affect my grade?

Projects are worth 20% of your overall

grade for the year.

This is project 3 out of 3.

Therefore it is worth 6.66..% of your total

grade.

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Plagiarism

This is very important to note;

You cannot just reproduce things from

websites/books etc pretending it is your own

work.

It is very obvious when this is done and your

teachers are excellent at recognising when

work is not your own. AVOID USING THE INTERNET AT ALL.

ALL WORK DONE MUST BE YOUR OWN!

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Extra resources

For details of the Extension curriculum go

to www.leafmaths.wikispaces.com/year10

If you have no ideas by 25th March then

your teacher will give you a project to work

on. Please try and avoid this if you can.

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What happens now?

Get into pairs.

Start thinking about what you want to doand how you are going to go about it.

Fill in the Proposal Formwhich will begiven to you in the next few weeks.

Remember Most of this is to be done

by YOU outside of lesson time so donot rely on your teacher to get youthrough this!

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Any questions?

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Some Math Fair ideas

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Other ideas

All of these ideas will need extending!

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Deadline

The completed Proposal Forms need to be

handed in by Friday 25th March.

That is this Friday!