Quick Start for Users

This Help section is designed to get you started in locating activities and weblinks to meet your needs.
To find out more about the many useful features and resources in MTSonline, go to the other Help options.

Use the Home Page to:
1. Choose the Search Option that best meets your needs.
2. Log in and out
3. Check the latest MTSonline news.
4. Send an invitation to others to take up 4 weeks free trial of MTSonline.

Home Page

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Begin by clicking on Search Option 1

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Click on the Year/Grade level that best meets your students' needs.
1. The program will create a list of all activities in the database for that year/grade.
2. The list will also show the activities linked to the appropriate content areas (strands/topics) from your curriculum.

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Use this page to scroll around to find activities that best meet your teaching content needs.
1. As you scroll over the activity numbers the title of the activity is shown. The title can provide a good clue about the activity content.
2. You will also notice as you scroll around this page that there is a Test for almost every topic in every strand.
3. Click on an activity number or test to view it in our convenient 'picture viewer'.
4. At this screen you can also open and download the Scope and Sequence planner for the year/grade. IT'S A MUST HAVE!
5. You can open and download the Test Marking Key and Record Sheet (ALSO MUST HAVES!)
6. You can select to view the activities in either Portrait mode or Landscape mode:
6.1 Portrait mode is black and white, A4 portrait for download and printing and also provides the very valuable Teacher Notes for each activity.
6.2 Landscape mode is in colour for immediate viewing on an interactive whiteboard.
7. You can change your curriculum to any of the others we have available.

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When you click on an activity it pops up in our 'picture viewer'.
1. In this example the activity is in black and white Portrait mode as I had selected that mode.
2. Note the tabs for the student activity and the associated tab for the Teacher Notes.
3. You can download and print the activity as a pdf page.
4. You can download and view the activity as a Word doc:
4.1 As a Word doc activities can be saved and edited on your local computer.
5. Use the forward and back arrows to click through other activities from the same strand/topic.
6. Use the cross to exit this view.

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Where to from here?
1. Play, play, play! Use, use, use! You can't harm the database in any way.
2. Open/close and download activities and Tests.
3. Check the very valuable Teacher Notes for:
3.1 The Lesson Outcome (vital for your formative assessment)
3.2 The Lesson Notes with questions to focus student mathematical thinking (A MUST!)
3.3 Reflection opportunities that are provided with every activity
3.4 The interactive weblinks associated with the activity (just click on the links provided)
3.5 Answers where required.
4. Go back to the Home Page to try other Search features.

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Try any or all of these Search options as they all have their own special features.

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