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“There’s a whole ethos in education departments at state government level, which believes it’s absolutely fine for teachers to teach students even if they don’t have a strong grounding in the [...]

The long-term decline in the number of students taught calculus in Australian schools and TIMSS data due this week should have every policy-maker and teacher extremely worried. Read more in the AFR.

Five more of Australia’s leading mathematical scientists have been added to the ranks of the ‘Superstars of STEM’, a program by Science and Technology Australia that equips [...]

Does the AMSI Director ever buy a lottery ticket? Asha Rao discusses the probability of winning lotto with Morning presenter Leon Compton on ABC Radio Hobart.

Javier Tordable from the Office of the CTO at Google Cloud) on impactful problems across Google and industry to which mathematicians could contribute. High-level, non-technical. Accessible by [...]

Every year, BioInfoSummer brings together many of Australia’s most talented advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students and early career researchers to explore bioinformatics — [...]

Expert commentary by RMIT’s Asha Rao and social justice advocate Tim Costello on ABC TV News Sydney [@13:05 — 2 minute view].

2020 winners announced; find out more and see the creative work of students at the Academy of Science.

Leveraging the digital tools available in classrooms: latest ACER pedagogy thought.

When self-taught mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan fails out of college, he does not give up hope. Determined to pursue his passion, he contacts Professor G.H. Hardy and is invited to [...]