Dear colleague,

Inquiry-based learning is a familiar term to Australian educators. Inquiry methods and skills are a key part of the Australian Curriculum design, and provide contexts for students to question, analyse and resolve challenges through authentic learning opportunities. Ultimately, inquiry learning aims to build self-directed learners who have the capacity to apply critical thinking skills and knowledge in a range of situations in their everyday world. Scootle provides a wide range of inquiry-based units of work, interactives and students activities across the learning areas.

Thought-provoking maths – new in Scootle

The Thought-provoking maths learning sequences take a maths by inquiry approach, and cover a variety of topics for a range of year levels across F–10. The sequences use a mix of hands-on learning tasks and digital resources from Scootle and elsewhere.

Thought-provoking maths includes:

• a provocation to stimulate student thinking around a concept
• resources that provide students with skill practise or allow them to experiment, investigate or problem-solve
• some ideas or a specific task to enable students to represent their learning
• links to the Australian Curriculum and the Mathematics proficiencies.

You can find these learning sequences by searching for ‘Thought-provoking maths’ within Scootle.

Looking for inquiry in other subjects? Try these search terms: Inquiry; Problem solving; Thinking; Research questions.

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