Success+Stories+from+the+Project

to advance student engagement from our project.
FWC was used with our Year 6 classes to teach and reinforce the students' spatial awareness. The children were very engaged when using the FWC program. The lessons were written in conjunction with their Maths Plus 6 work book and we found that, come assessment time, the students' had benefitted considerably from the use of FWC. FWC was also used in a maths investigation in which the students had to graph expenditures. The majority of the students did this successfully. Brendan and Colleen (St Edward's, Daisy Hill)

When I used page 1 (parallel and perpendicular lines) with my year 10 Extension class and my year 11 Maths B class. I found that the girls who were struggling to visually understand how parallel and perpendicular lines work, had eventually grasped the concept when constructing the lines onto the graph. Juliana (St John Fisher College)

The project has allowed members of our maths department to spend time in front of the software and learn meaningful ways to use FWC. One success has been with our Yr 8 classes where students used FWC to check their responses to an assessment piece. The software allowed students to visualise the work they had done and improved their outcomes. Since the students have used FWC with this task, academic results for this particular unit increased across all classes. Steve (Mt Maria College)

FWC has allowed our Year 9 students to engage in drawing different 2D shapes and calculating their Perimeters and Areas. They were also able to see the faces of 3D figures by pulling them apart, or viewing nets,and hence calculating Total Surface Area. FWC was also used to help students visualise a real life application of Trigonometry. Anne and Peter (St Eugene College)