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2019 Primary and Early Childhood Mathematics Education Conference

Welcome to conference: Professor Jim Watterston.

Thursday keynote: Associate Professor Wee Tinog Seah. Loving mathematics: Leading cultural change in your school.

Thursday keynote: Associate Professor Robyn Pierce: Critical thinking with school data: Looking back to look forwards.

Thursday keynote: Jennifer Bowden. Engaging community and family in your mathematics program.

Friday keynote: Dr Duncan Symons. Programs, Packages and Apps: Principles for technology integrating in Primary and Early Childhood Mathematics.

Jennifer Bowden	Engaging community and family in your mathematics program
Jennifer Bowden	Engaging community and family in your mathematics program - workshop
Jennifer Bowden	Maths 300 - Creating school wide consistent practice to embed the proficiencies
Jennifer Bowden & Ellen Corovic	Breaking down the default setting
Amanda Cassidy	It's all about 'time' - the early years
Philip Clarkson	Revisiting problem solving: The matter of language
Philip Clarkson	‘Your’ Whole-school Professional Learning Program {WSPLP}: Possibilities for revitalizing / rethinking your mathematics program
Bree Collins	Igniting mathematical curiosity through picture books
Bree Collins	Using picture books to enhance connections
Ellen Corovic	Finding Clarity
Ellen Corovic	Mathematics: a spirit of inquiry
Penny Crossland	Critical and Creative Thinking in Mathematics Handout
Carmel Delahunty	Leading Whole School Improvement in Mathematics: A Teacher Efficacy Project
Matthew Harrison & Kate Tyndall	Clear lines of communication in supporting learners with additional needs in mathematics
Derek Holton	Developing higher order thinking in the primary mathematics classroom
Derek Holton & Duncan Symons	The importance of infinity in the primary mathematics classroom
Catherine Pearn & Matthew Harrison	Strategies to support learners with SEN in the Maths Classroom
Belinda Johnston	Mathematical Play - what is the reality?
Sara McKee	Building Teacher Capacity through PLTs - a problem solving based approach
Sara McKee	Planning for Problem Solving
Sara McKee	Problem Solving at Wedge Park Primary School
Robyn Pierce	Critical thinking with school data: Looking back to look forwards
Bronwyn Ryrie Jones	Reviewing and improving teacher-written assessments
Wee Tiong Seah	Loving mathematics: Leading cultural change in your school
Kaye Stacey	Mathematics with a spirit of inquiry
Kaye Stacey	Mathematical Inquiry into Authentic Problems: Years F - 2
Kaye Stacey	Mathematical Inquiry into Authentic Problems: Years 3 - 6
Paul Staniscia	Embedding the Proficiency Strands through Evidence Based Practices
Max Stephens & Duncan Symons	Adapting the principles and practices of lesson study as an approach to teacher professional learning in STEM
Jane Strickland	Design and use of an assessment to observe emergent numeracy skills in young children with additional needs
Duncan Symons	Programs, Packages and Apps: Principles for technology integration in Primary and Early Childhood Mathematics
Pauline Thompson	Professional Learning as a key lever to support long-term improvements in teaching practice
Nadia Walker	‘Leadership content knowledge’: What do leaders need to know?

2018: Critical and Creative Thinking in the Mathematics Classroom

Michael Bairstow	Moving towards more open and challenging tasks.
Meredith Begg	If a Picture Speaks A Thousand Words, What might One Mathematical Symbol Say?
Dr Joanne Blannin	Critical Thinking, Coding & Algorithmic Thinking.
Jennifer Bowden and Ellen Corovic	Embedding creative and critical thinking for continuous and sustained learning. AAMT standards of mathematics teachers.
Jennifer Bowden	Continuing creative and critical thinking into mathematics in the early years classroom.
Scott Cameron and Carmel Mesiti	Digital Technologies for Rich and Challenging tasks. Download the Excel template from this presentation.
Ellen Corovic	Asking the "right" question. 10 subitising activities.
Ellen Corovic	Making conjectures using critical and creative thinking in a context-based classroom.
Felicity Furey	Why we need critical and creative thinking in industry: developing skills early for STEM and engineering.
Dan Jazby	Critical Communication in primary mathematics
Dr Sara McKee	Metacognitive Strategies to support Critical and Creative Thinking. Download a zipped archive of the files from this presentation.
Parian Madanipour	Facilitating Children's Spatial Thinking Through Dance.
Wee Tiong SEAH	When creativity meets creativity in the Australian multicultural mathematics classroom
Dr Paul Swan	The Jabberwocky of Learning Mathematics.
Dr Paul Swan and David Dunstan	Critical and Creative Thinking in the Mathematics Classroom Conference.
Nadia Walker	Leadership content knowledge.
Roger Wander	Using GeoGebra^© technology in primary mathematics classrooms to extend creative thinking. Download a zipped archive of the files from this presentation.

2017: Embedding and Assessing the Mathematics Proficiencies

Jen Bowden	Using picture books to inspire a working mathematically approach
Jen Bowden and Ellen Corovic	Being a professional maths teacher – pedagogy, planning and practice
Jen Bowden and Ellen Corovic	Collaborative maths leadership
David Clarke	Promoting mathematics proficiencies through classroom talk
Ellen Corovic	Making mathematical connections
Ellen Corovic and Cathy Epstein	Let’s get started! Using games to engage students
Derek Holton	Inquiry mathematics - Nell’s and Norm’s numbers
Derek Holton	Inquiry mathematics – strange balances
Dan Jazby	The M in STEM? Practical use of STEM to teach mathematical problem solving
Robyn Pierce	RME, the resolve project and mathematics by inquiry
Wee Tiong Seah	OK, we need to do better, but how?
Duncan Symons	Inquiry Mathematics in the Primary Classroom (ReSolve)
Max Stephens	Algorithmics in the Victorian Curriculum: An entry point into reasoning and problem solving