AAMT e-news

for the Australian mathematics education community

3 August 2015

AAMT conference videos

Keynote presentations at the recent AAMT conference were videoed and will be available online shortly. Whether you were there and want to recapture the moment, or want to find out what had everyone so enthused, keep an eye on the AAMT homepage (www.aamt.edu.au) for a link.

Beth Southwell Practical Implications Award

AAMT sponsors the Beth Southwell Practical Implications Award which is made at the Annual Conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia (MERGA). The PIA this year was awarded to Jodie Hunter (Massey University, NZ) for her paper Teacher Actions to Facilitate Early Algebraic Reasoning. You can access the PDF paper from www.merga.net.au/documents/PIA2015.pdf.

Pictured: Conference Convenor Margaret Marshman, Jodie Hunter, and AAMT Life Member Max Stephens who presented the Award.

Matific special offer

AAMT members can still get free access to Matific (www.matific.com) as well as free home access for students (normally $10 per student per year) for the rest of 2015. The offer also includes admin and training support for teachers at no cost to you or your school so you can learn how to search effectively for content, plan your lessons and make use of the reporting tools.

Comments about Matific from both teachers and students are available on YouTube.

To sign up for this no-obligation offer, go to www.aamt.edu.au/News/Opportunities/Matific.

[featured resource] Starting Points

The activities in this book were originally published in the centre pages of the journal Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom (APMC). They have been collected together, modified and enhanced ready for classroom use. Starting Points provides more than 50 stimulus ideas for teachers with blackline masters. In order to promote students’ mathematical thinking there is an emphasis on discussion, open questions and use of rich mathematical situations. A good collection of easy to use activities that will get your classroom buzzing!

#AAMT119 $35.00 * AAMT members: $28.00 *

www.aamt.edu.au/Webshop/Entire-catalogue/Starting-Points