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=Information for Contributors=

**Resource Types**
 * Topic Summary document:
 * Syllabus reference and outcomes
 * Key teaching ideas
 * Student misconceptions and teaching challenges
 * Ideas for student exploration
 * Outcome sheets
 * Sample teaching sequences and programs
 * Sample lesson plans - for particularly interesting or successful lesson ideas.
 * Diagnostic resources (pre-topic diagnostics, outcome diagnostics, post-topic diagnostics)
 * Worksheets
 * Revision resources
 * Links to online and video resources - recommend direct links to [|Maths Links].
 * GeoGebra resources - can be directly embedded into the wiki //(I think)//.
 * Link to freely available mathematics education research

Resources organised by strand and year - stored in slices
A key goal is to organise information by Australian Curriculum strand and year, with an index page for each section. The index page should point to a small set of key documents for each resource type. Additional resources beyond a core set should be referenced in a supplementary "All Resources" page.

Content Slices ("small slices")
Where possible, Kangaroo Pie teaching resources should to be organised **based on ACM content descriptions (Kangaroo Pie content "small" slices).** Different state syllabi have reorganised the content into their own topics, building different combinations of the ACM content to meet their needs.With the data organised by ACM content description, it is then possible to create collections which group the content into packages that more closely match state syllabus topics.

Substrand slices ("big slices")
In some cases, organising by ACM content description will be too granular, and in these situations, data can be organised at Year+Sub-strand level (**Kangaroo Pie substrand ("big slices**).

Putting it all together
So for example, the Year 7 sub-strand "Number and Place Value" has the following content descriptions:

Where possible, resources should be organised under the content descriptions ACMNA149, ACMNA150, ACMNA151, ACMNA280. More general resources would be associated with the page "Year 7 ACMNA Number and Place Value". (We may need to assign a coding to ACM year/sub-strand). In the case of the NSW BOS syllabus, there are two syllabus topics referencing these content descriptions:
 * > Year+Sub-strand => |||||| ===Year 7 ACMNA Number and Place Value=== ||
 * Content Descriptions => ||= Year 7 ||= **ACMNA149** || Index notation, whole numbers as products of prime numbers ||
 * ||= Year 7 ||= **ACMNA150** || Square roots of perfect square numbers ||
 * ||= Year 7 ||= **ACMNA151** || Associative, commutative and distributive laws for mental and written computation ||
 * ||= Year 7 ||= **ACMNA280** || Compare, order, add and subtract integers ||

and thus we will have two top level NSW BOS pages, NA4.1 and NA4.7 which will each point at their corresponding ACMNA content resources.
 * ===Number and Algebra=== || ===NSW BOS=== || **pg** ||
 * ===ACMNA Number and Place Value=== ||  ||   ||
 * = Year 7 ||= ACMNA149 || Index notation, whole numbers as products of prime numbers || NA.4.7 Indices || 204 ||
 * = Year 7 ||= ACMNA150 || Square roots of perfect square numbers || NA.4.7 Indices || 204 ||
 * = Year 7 ||= ACMNA151 || Associative, commutative and distributive laws for mental and written computation || NA.4.1 Computation with Integers || 191 ||
 * = Year 7 ||= ACMNA280 || Compare, order, add and subtract integers || NA.4.1 Computation with Integers || 191 ||

// Hmm... this material really needs to live in a content database so top level pages can be created as needed on the fly .... //

Storing Resources
//At this stage it is unclear where resources should be stored - either directly in the wikispace, or using services such as Scribd. Ideas?//

Tools:
How to write maths equations in a wikispace