Student Independent or Group Research Ideas
Could research in the classroom, library, or computer lab; as a class, for extension etc:
- Tons
– trucks, cars, tow trucks
– animals, baby elephants, rhinos
- Exchange rates in different countries against the Australian dollar and could graph changes in them over time
- Could do a country study – what is different in maths: units of measurement in US, time zone and therefore time, maximum and minimum temperatures in various seasons, value of the dollar against Australian dollar, denominations of the currency.
- Could research theme parks around the world in terms of : size (area), number of rides, metres of track for the roller coaster, height of biggest drop.
- Could research bridges of the world as to height, length etc.
- World weather
- World time, time zones, use of daylight savings, hours of daylight experienced
- Study chance in lotteries and lotto ie chance of winning.
