Defence launches Future Innovators Award for young STEM achievers
Year 10 and 12 maths students are encouraged to apply for the newly launched Australian Defence Force (ADF) Future Innovators Award Read more
Are students supposed to struggle when learning maths, and is this critical to learning?
Monash University teaching research published in the The Journal of Mathematical Behavior
Professor Kari Vilonen awarded ARC Laureate Fellowship
The University of Melbourne’s Professor Kari Vilonen has been awarded a highly prestigious ARC Laureate Fellowship, to address deep longstanding questions about mathematics that will [...]
We’re testing 50,000 Australians a day for COVID-19; should it be 6.5 million?
Analysis and commentary on the mathematics of mass testing by UNSW’s Professor Richard Holden in ‘The Conversation’. As Victoria grapples with a second-wave outbreak of [...]
Australia’s coronavirus testing rates are some of the best in the world
More interactive animations thanks to the University of Sydney’s Adam Kamradt-Scott and ‘The Conversation’ Data on COVID-19 testing rates per thousand people show that Australia [...]
Victoria is undeniably in a second wave of COVID-19. It’s time to plan for another statewide lockdown.
Victoria recorded its largest daily increase of 127 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, 16 more than the previous peak of 111 cases on March 28. Adrian Esterman, from the University of South Australia [...]
Superspreaders, asymptomatics and COVID-19 elimination
Estimates of the risk of lifting lockdown at various times near the end of the epidemic in Medical Journal of Australia preprint Read more at MJA.
Reflecting on mathematics education in a time of crisis: an opportunity for change?
How can we change teaching and assessment practices that have been formed over generations and that are now so misaligned with the world we now live in and the needs of our students? Read more in [...]
“Keep Calm and Remain Critical”
New MathsTalk podcast with WSU’s Dr Catherine Attard looks at how teachers and parents can discern between good and not-so-great mathematics resources in this time of information overload. [...]
Students encouraged to get creative for maths-themed photo competition
‘scienceXart: spot the maths’ hosted by the Australian Academy of Science is a mathematics-themed photographic competition for school students is being held in celebration of the 100th [...]
