AAMT e-news

for the Australian mathematics education community

15 March 2016

Connect with Maths Day

Get connected on Connect with Maths Day, this Friday 18 March.

Professional learning sessions from presenters such as Burkard Polster, Robyn Jorgensen, Mike Askew, and Denise Neal (among others) will be streamed online for free throughout the day!

To view the full program and to register, go to http://connectwithmathsday.aamt.edu.au

Call for ICME poster presentations

The 13th International Congress on Mathematical Education (ICME-13) will be held 24–31 July 2016 in Hamburg, Germany. All members of the mathematics education community are invited to contribute a poster presentation to ICME-13. For more information, go to http://icme13.org/submission_process/paper_and_poster_template

Also, a reminder that any Australians planning to attend the congress are invited to become part of the ‘official’ AAMT delegation representing Australia. For more information, please email feedback@aamt.edu.au.

Day of STEM

AAMT is supporting Day of STEM, a free initiative to highlight career options within STEM fields.

You can find more information at www.dayofstem.com.au.

AAMT@50: Directions

The conference to celebrate AAMT’s 50th anniversary will be held on 7–8 July at Ayers House, Adelaide, one of the city's iconic buildings – just the right surroundings for an event such as this. The conference will capture the association’s history as a platform for projecting its future. Planning the program and speakers is progressing and will be formally announced when registrations open in the lead up to Easter.

In the meantime, to ensure that you are invited to attend when registrations open, you can pre-register at https://www.cognitoforms.com/AAMTInc/AAMT50Preregistration.

Download Shell Centre materials

A number of popular resources from the Shell Centre are now available for free download. Titles such as The Language and Functions and Graphs, Problems with Patterns and Numbers, Be a Shrewd Chooser, Be a Paper Engineer and other innovative books are now available as PDF.

To grab an old favourite or check out some great classroom resources, go to http://www.mathshell.com/index.php.

[featured resource] Count like an Egyptian

David Reimer

The mathematics of ancient Egypt was fundamentally different from the mathematics of today, which makes solving ancient Egyptian problems quite an adventure. Find out about hieroglyphs, pyramid-building, agriculture, religion and bread baking while calculating areas in cubits, drawing the ‘perfect’ Egyptian woman, computing basic operations using Babylon notation, and working in different bases.

#ECA017 $67.50 * AAMT members: $54.00 *

www.aamt.edu.au/Webshop/Entire-catalogue/Count-like-an-Egyptian-A-hands-on-introduction-to-ancient-mathematics