AAMT e-news

for the Australian mathematics education community

12 October 2015

ICME-13 submissions

The deadline for submitting papers for the 13th International Congress on Mathematics Education (ICME-13) is Thursday 15 October 2015. Papers submitted to ICME-13 must use the ICME-13 template and not be longer than four pages.

ICME-13 will be held 24–31 July 2016 in Hamburg, Germany

For details of the submission process see: http://icme13.org/submission_process/paper_and_poster_template

Keynote videos

You can watch videos of the keynote presentations by Lynne McClure, Amie Albrecht, Merrilyn Goos and Val Westwell from the recent AAMT conference that was held in Adelaide in July this year.

Go to www.aamt.edu.au/Library/Videos/Keynotes-2015.

Matific

AAMT members can continue to take advantage of the offer from Matific for students to have free home access for 2015. A new Class Management feature now allows teachers to organise multiple classes and move students between them, allowing you to differentiate instruction based on the needs of your classroom.

To sign up for this offer, go to www.aamt.edu.au/News/Opportunities/Matific.

[webinar] Discovering Sustainability and Maths in a World Heritage Icon

Wednesday 14 October 2015, 4.30 pm EST

Presenter: Naomi Martin

A real life case study of mathematics applied to sustainability and the design of the Opera House. Free online event. For more information, go to www.aamt.edu.au/Communities/Webinars

[featured resource] Teaching and assessing maths through open-ended activities

Open-ended maths activities are integral in developing the proficiencies in the Australian Curriculum: Mathematics. This book contains short open-ended tasks and longer investigative activities, sample assessment rubrics and student work samples.

#PEA002 $56.25 * AAMT members: $45.00

www.aamt.edu.au/Webshop/Entire-catalogue/Teaching-and-assessing-maths-through-open-ended-activities