Strength In Numbers

Engagement vs enjoyment, fluency vs quick recall, combating maths anxiety, and well-meaning but harmful attitudes.

EdTech Specialist and creator of Number Hive, Chris Hogbin joins us today to talk about the dangers of focusing on quick recall and student enjoyment, the importance of showing the purpose of maths, alternate measures of success, and fighting maths anxiety one harmful sentiment at a time.

Key Links:
Number Hive:
https://www.numberhive.app/
Play here:
https://play.numberhive.org/

Chris Hogbin:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-hogbin-651361121/

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Motivating students, pruning the curriculum, and getting parents involved using modern assessment tools.

Essential Assessment’s Teaching and Learning Manager Jacinta Browning and President of the Queensland Catholic Primary Principals Association, Gavin Rick join to discuss the role assessment can play for students, teachers, parents, and school leadership alike.

Key Links:
Essential Assessment:
https://www.essentialassessment.com.au/

Jacinta Browning:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacinta-browning-798824235

Gavin Rick:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/gavinrick/

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Using technology to make maths relevant to student interests, breaking down walls in the classroom, unique technological manipulatives, and only using technology when you have to.

Desmos Computation Layer Specialist, John Rowe joins us to talk about his unique experience using technology in the classroom, his viral quadratics tool, how to keep students engaged with each other in the classroom while using technology, avoiding choosing technological solutions for efficiency and instead focusing on efficacy, and avoiding student apathy towards digital tools.

Key Links:
Super Mario Quadratics Video:
https://youtu.be/ewAHYVzMobw

Hook, Line, and Sinker:
https://mrrowe.com/book

Desmos Classroom:
https://teacher.desmos.com/

Find John on LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jkarowe/

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Challenging high potential underachievers, equipping your students with multiple toolsets, utilising productive struggle, and seeking out help from other teachers.

PhD candidate and Master Teacher at the Education and Research Directorate, Andrea de Carvalho joins the podcast to talk about challenging already excelling students, preparing alternate work each lesson for students who need other pathways to understanding, and the advantage of a broad range of student experience and starting points in a single classroom.

Key Links:
Find Andrea on LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrea-de-carvalho-417152190/

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Reintroducing physical props when teaching maths, the loss of tangible numeracy in a digital world, ditching the worksheet as the first port of call, and focusing on the language of mathematics.

Numeracy Consultant at the Association of Independent Schools WA, Sheila Griffin joins Allan Dougan to discuss the loss of physical, tangible examples of maths outside the classroom and how best to counteract it, how to get students to guide learning, and allowing students to fill more of the conversation.

Key Links:

Sheila Griffin
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sheila-griffin-2b53b11b4/

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Differentiating engagement from entertainment, harnessing fun in the classroom, and The International Congress on Mathematical Education returns to Australia for the first time in 40 years in 2024 with ICME #15.

Head of the School of Education at UNSW, Professor Kim Beswick and Former AAMT Chief Executive, Will Morony join Allan Dougan to discuss the upcoming International Congress of Mathematics Education being held in Sydney, how ICME can benefit your classroom and your career, and how they first got involved as Convenors of the Congress.

Key Links:

ICME 15
https://icme15.org/

Kim Beswick
https://www.unsw.edu.au/staff/kim-beswick
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kim-beswick-7020871b9/

Will Morony
https://aamt.edu.au/about-us/honours/life-membership/will-morony/

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Making maths accessible, bringing student interests into mathematics, intentionality in pedagogies, and the art of being less helpful.

Master Teacher, Deputy Principal and published mathematics author, Mark Hansen joins us today to talk about his unique maths journey, German psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus’s curves of learning and forgetting and using interleaved activities to combat it, and the future of maths education in our modern age.

Key Links:

Mark Hansen
mathsclassrenos@outlook.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/markhansen1983/

Hermann Ebbinghaus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Ebbinghaus

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Solutions to common struggles facing teachers of mathematics, stories of classes that went wrong, and breakthrough moments facilitated by changing teaching tools.

AAMT Chief Executive, Allan DOUGAN speaks with Dr. Peter Liljedahl - the author of bestselling teacher’s guide “Building Thinking Classrooms

Creating a classroom that necessitates thinking and participation can be challenging, and the huge body of research on the subject can be difficult and time intensive to navigate, but with just a few practices in mind the classroom can be transformed.

Peter’s book “Building Thinking Classrooms” puts into words that gut feeling you have as a teacher, and explains intuitive, practical steps to take towards improving student engagement based on data and research.

 

Key Links:

Dr. Peter Liljedahl
https://twitter.com/pgliljedahl

#thinkingclassroom

Building Thinking Classrooms
https://buildingthinkingclassrooms.com/

Building Thinking Classrooms Group on Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/groups/buildingthinkingclassrooms/

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Learning pedagogical techniques from other disciplines, shaking up the structure of the classroom, and getting support from your local organisations.

President of MASA, Rebecca Garrett and AAMT Chief Executive Allan Dougan talk about getting students excited about mathematics, disarming maths intimidation through fun challenges, and the roles your local organisations can play in helping strengthen your teaching and improve your classroom.

 

Key Links:

Rebecca Garrett on LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebecca-garrett-5a7210120/

The Mathematical Association of South Australia:
https://masaonline.org.au/

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Unique perspectives on the place mathematics has in our data-driven modern world, and how using tools like Desmos and Wolfram Alpha can help students visualise mathematics.

AAMT Education Specialist Denise Halliday joins Chief Executive Allan Dougan to talk about how Denise’s early career in accounting and investment banking helped ignite her passion for teaching and gave her unique insights on the value mathematics holds in every career and industry, as well as exciting trends and tools to help maths teachers reach and engage their students.

Key Links:

AAMT Website
https://aamt.edu.au/

AAMT Twitter
https://twitter.com/aamtinc

Denise Halliday on LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/denise-halliday-83926825/

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