Article by Henrietta Cook and Timna Jackson, The Age, Saturday 29 August, 2015. “I’ve left my glasses at home,” the 30-year-old with perfect vision said. Chisholm Institute of [...]

Radio piece by Stephanie Pradier, Science Show, Radio National, Saturday 22 August, 2015. Mathematics is the basis of all science. And its importance is increasing as computers handle large [...]

Article by John Ross, The Australian, 12 August 2015 It outshines other sciences in Discovery grant applications and trains graduates for a raft of industries. Yet schools don’t mandate it, [...]

Article by Tim Dodd, Australian Financial Review, 10 August 2015 Bruce Henry, the head of UNSW Australia’s School of Mathematics and Statistics laments that 70 per cent of students now [...]

Article by Tim Dodd, Australian Financial Review, 9 August 2015. Top educators have defended Australian universities’ move away from requiring maths as a prerequisite for science, [...]

Article by Stephen Matchett, Campus Morning Mail, 6 August, 2015 The excellent Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute has run the numbers on the state of maths education and found the state [...]

Article by Julia Proctor, The Sydney Morning Herald, 26 July 2015 Australia’s maths achievements have been falling steadily for the past decade, including fewer students taking advanced [...]

BRISBANE, FRIDAY 26 JUNE, 2015: When someone says they are a mathematician or describes their research, it is natural to wonder why it is useful. Why do we need it? How will it affect me? What [...]

Opinion piece by Winter School lecturers Joan Licata and Anthony Licata. What does connect-the-dots have to do with watching a Pixar film? More than you might think. A connect-the-dots page [...]

Piece by Glen Bartholomew, on ABC News Radio Director of the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute explains the challenges of making maths compulsory for Years 11-12 Federal Education [...]