Leanne McMahon enlists the journalistic/maths educator talents of Vicky Kennard and Cassandra Lowry to review some highlights of the 2020 Mathematics Association of Victoria Virtual Conference. [...]

“The increased result at Year 8 level is highly encouraging and shows the value of AMSI’s work across the sector” Professor (Asha) Rao said. Read more at ‘The Educator’.

Tuesday 08 December 2020 1530AEDT Australian school students elevated into global top-10 for mathematics performance Data released overnight from the latest quadrennial TIMSS testing reveals [...]

High schools are doing better than ever at science…mathematics results mixed. Maaike Wienk commentary in the ‘Financial Review’ [Nine Media paywall access may be required].

Australian high school students have achieved their best-ever results in the latest international maths and science tests, finishing in the world’s top 10 on the back of a significant [...]

“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.

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

And five resources to build positive maths mindsets in Years 9-10…. The application of mathematics and AMSI online resources highlighted by NSW Education.

Maths achievement scores for Australian 15-16 year-olds have shown steady decline since 2003. Perhaps even more concerning is that the ranking-gap between Australia and top performing countries [...]