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The Annual Conference is now booking fast, and with such a great program this year some sessions are already full. Book now to ensure your preferred keynote and session selections. MAV Council had its annual planning day recently. Time was spent looking at two areas; Building the detail behind the new Strategic Plan that is close to finalisation. The 2018 to 2020 Strategic Plan will be launched in early 2018 and will build on MAV’s strengths, focusing activities in some areas of need. Also covered on the day was risk with the Council strengthening its governance in this area. It was a great day for all who attended. And don’t forget that it is time to renew your membership. To ensure you continue to receive your member benefits into 2018 join or renew now. Regards, Peter Saffin |
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MAV Launches new Primary Resources support web page
These pages offer a range of useful and relevant links, resources and activities that can be used to engage, extend and enhance student learning. There is also information and opportunities that will help you, the teacher, develop professional knowledge and experience. |
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2018 MAV Membership, don’t delay!We need your support to ensure that MAV can continue to prosper and deliver important services for maths educators! Our Association has over 1400 members from all sectors of education and provides membership benefits to a growing network of over 13,500 mathematics educators. Be a part of it! Renewals You will have received your 2018 membership renewal notice. Thank you to those who have renewed, we have had a great response so far. For those who renew their membership before the MAV17 Annual Conference held on the 7th and 8th of December, you will go into the draw for gift vouchers to the value of $150 for third, $300 second, and $400 first prize which entitle yourself or your school to purchase publications from the MAVshop. For support with your renewal contact Michael Green mgreen@mav.vic.edu.au
If you are thinking of joining MAV, the time is right! MAV is going from strength to strength. We need your support to ensure that MAV can continue to prosper and deliver important services for maths educators! Access a full year of benefits in 2018. We need schools, and individuals to sign up now at our membership page. For more information contact Michael Green mgreen@mav.vic.edu.au. |
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MAV17 Annual ConferenceMAVshop will be back at conference, bigger and better than ever. Don’t forget to organise your purchase order ready to take home a bargain, or grab the latest and greatest resources. |
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Professional ReadingDebunking common and harmful misconceptions about mathematics Professor Kate Smith-Miles, ARC Australian Laureate Fellow and President of the Australian Mathematical Society gives a talk aiming to debunk some of the common and harmful misconceptions about mathematics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgsDI2CaRg4. Transition Mathematics and the transition from primary to secondary school, Catherine Attard. |
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Survey for year 7 teachersAs part of her Monash University research, Christine Lenghaus, a Mathematics teacher, is researching Victorian Year 7 Mathematics Teachers' Experiences and Needs in Supporting Students Below Grade Level. If you have taught or are currently teaching Year 7, would you please support this research by completing a 7 minute survey by clicking the link below. Take the Survey or copy and paste the URL below into your internet browser:https://monash.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_43ioleGODqWRI9L |
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Other news and eventsWant to help kids develop as creative thinkers? Join a new online course and community designed by the creators of Scratch. Learn more. Emerging Sciences Victoria
Classes run for one hour, twice a week over 15 weeks. Students can study as an individual, in groups or classes and all assessment and reporting is completed by ESV staff. Registrations for Semester One, 2018 are open now. Ask for a course overview or register your school now. For more information: www.emsci.vic.edu.au. Making links and breaking codes: A public lecture to celebrate the centenary of mathematician Bill Tutte Speaker: Professor Graham Farr, Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University. Tues 5 Dec 2017, 7pm, in South 1 lecture theatre, 43 Rainforest Walk, Clayton campus, Monash University. William (Bill) Tutte (1917-2002) became a research mathematician while still an undergraduate at Cambridge in the late 1930s, broke the toughest Nazi codes while at Bletchley Park in the Second World War, and became one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century. His wartime work sparked the secret construction of Colossus, one of the first-ever computers, and saved countless lives. After the war, he led the development of the mathematics of networks, known as Graph Theory. His work was usually inspired by pure curiosity or entertaining puzzles, but has been applied in domains as diverse as electrical circuits, statistical physics and information visualisation. This talk tells the story of Tutte's life, mathematics and code-breaking to a broad audience. Attendance is free and open to anyone. No booking is required. This public lecture is being held in association with the 5th International Combinatorics Conference (5ICC, http://www.monash.edu/5icc/), and forms part of a worldwide programme of events to mark the centenary of Tutte's birth, http://billtuttememorial.org.uk/centenary/. For further information, see: http://www.monash.edu/5icc/publiclecture.html.
GXWeb is a new, free browser based version of the mathematical modelling tool Geometry Expressions. Geometry Expressions lets you express problems geometrically and extract algebra from the model. You can then solve the algebraic model and explore the implications of your solution visually. Check it out now! www.geometryexpressions.com Wolfram Support The following blogs and papers may be of interest to maths leaders teachers and students, in particular with respect to computational thinking, AI, machine learning and the like. The full suite can be accessed here. The sample computations can be played with using Wolfram Open Cloud or via the DET licenses available to all Victorian secondary schools teachers and students. |
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MAVshopCLEARANCE SALE Limited stock is available for the MAV Solutions to the VCAA Exams from 2008-2014. MAV is selling the CDs at much reduced prices ranging from as low as $5 to $20. For examples click here, and see the MAVshop for the full range: Get your hands-on the latest books from Peter Sullivan.
Author: Peter Sullivan Challenging Mathematical Tasks supports the idea that students learn best when they work on problems that they do not yet know how to solve. Peter Sullivan’s research shows that many students do not fear challenges in mathematics, but welcome them. And rather than having teachers instruct them, these students prefer to work out solutions for themselves.
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![]() Author: Peter Sullivan Open-Ended Maths Activities discusses the features of ‘good’ mathematical questions. It provides practical advice on how teachers can create their own open-ended and problem-solving questions, and use them effectively in the classroom.
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