AAMT e-news

for the Australian mathematics education community

2 March 2015

Call for journal papers

AAMT would like you to write for its journals! There are three titles: Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, The Australian Mathematics Teacher, and Australian Senior Mathematics Journal.

The journals publish research, examples of best practice, teaching ideas, and more. Writing an article and sharing your classroom ideas with colleagues is great professional learning in itself!

For more information about AAMT journals go to www.aamt.edu.au/Journals

[webinar] Mathematics resources through Scootle community

10 March 2015, 4.30–5.30 pm EST

Join Leigh Murphy, the Manager of User Engagement at Education Services Australia, in this Connect with Maths live webinar about the professional learning network Scootle Community.

For more information and to register, go to www.aamt.edu.au/Communities/Webinars/Mathematics-resources-through-Scootle-community

Final call for AAMT conference presentations

Offers to present a 55-minute seminar or workshop at AAMT's biennial conference in July are currently sought.

Presentations should reflect one of the conference themes: learn, lead, link.

Offers close on 6 March. You can make an offer to present as part of your conference registration. For more information, go to http://www.cvent.com/d/74q5tv/4K?cpc=HQN4LQRH3K9

[featured resource] Really Big Numbers

Start with the number 1 and then move on to millions, billions, nonillions, googols and plexes. Did you know that there are about 40 000 ways to place just three counters on a chess board? Or that writing a googolplex in long form would be physically impossible since doing so would require more paper than could be contained in the entire known universe?

Each page is a bright, colourful and quirky graphic with accompanying text. The author not only explains really big numbers but illustrates them with interesting and unusual examples. A book that explores exponential notation, the logic behind naming of numbers and the sheer fascination of numbers so big that they are difficult to imagine.

#EUR001 $37.50 * AAMT members $30.00 *

www.aamt.edu.au/Webshop/Entire-catalogue/Really-Big-Numbers