Karen McDaid is an experienced mathematics teacher and is now the head of department for Mathematics at Cluey Learning, an online tutoring service that provides personalised education in Mathematics, Chemistry, English and NAPLAN. In this podcast she provides teachers ...

Australian Mathematical Science Institute's newest ambassador has issued a call for girl power in STEM subjects and careers. Choose Maths Careers Ambassador and Swinburne Associate Professor, Alan Duffy, was seated on a panel at the Choose Maths International Women's Day ...

NSW teacher Eddie Woo is in the running to be named the best teacher in the world, and will hold the lone torch for Australia in the Varkey Foundation Global Teacher Prize 2018. The Cherrybrook Technology High School teacher was selected ...

Studies show girls are 25 per cent less confident in their ability to learn maths than boys, but a new national mentoring program aims to alter this reality. The mathematics network is now being piloted in five states (NSW, QLD, ...

“I always say in jest to people, if you type NAPLAN in a Word document or on the computer, it autocorrects to NAPALM, which I think says it all.” Associate professor Michael Nagel, an educational psychologist at the University of ...

There are many active, fun, hands-on ways to teach the essential concepts to young learners. You can even make numbers beautiful. By Joseph Grotowski and Marty Ross. Charles Darwin famously described a mathematician as “a blind man in a dark ...

  Experts weigh staff shortages, need to prepare, satisfy students. By Dallas Bastian. Mathematics may be made compulsory for all Year 12 students across New South Wales, should the state government agree with recommendations that will be tabled in Parliament, ...

Running short of qualified maths teachers may be one result of cutting university funding to meet the Gonski recommendations. “One of the most significant problems in our schools is the shortage of qualified mathematics teachers,” said professor Geoff Prince, director ...