This Review, initiated by the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute (AMSI) and the Statistical Society of Australia (SSA), illustrates the central role that mathematics and statistics skills [...]
Gender differences in mathematics performance exist from about Year 3 with a widening gap across the school years, and the differences in performance and achievements of girls and boys are easy [...]
Executive Summary and Main Findings of the report examining whether gender differences exist in students’ attitudes to mathematics and how their attitudes change following growth mindset ideas [...]
While during the past decade typically around 71-73% of Year 12 students were enrolled in one or more mathematics subjects, things took a turn for the worse in 2020, with a sudden drop in maths [...]
The number of students completing Year 12 has been steadily increasing in Australia. During the last ten years it has grown by approximately 15% and in 2017 it reached its highest ever with over [...]
The Mapping University Prerequisites in Australia paper, a joint report by the Office of the Chief Scientist and Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute, analyses university mathematics and [...]
The CHOOSEMATHS program was monitored by several surveys throughout the course of the project. These included a Student Survey conducted before and after each CHOOSEMATHS research lesson or [...]
This 2020 State of Mathematical Sciences is the seventh edition of AMSI’s periodic discipline profile for mathematics and statistics, providing a detailed snapshot of the condition of the [...]
The under-representation of young women in advanced mathematics courses in school, in university mathematics degree programs and in mathematics-related careers in many western countries is of [...]
This paper examines how the shortfall in the supply of Mathematics teachers in Secondary schools arose. If Australian students are to have the great teachers they deserve, what can Australia do [...]