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for the Australian mathematics education community

29 August 2018

Finals Time! with Maths300

Whether you follow AFL or NRL, you can engage your students in finals fever and mathematics —courtesy of Maths300! For a limited time, the Finals Time! lessons and accompanying software will be available to access for free. The lessons involve students in a simulation of the ‘final eight’ while learning about both the final structure and the underlying mathematics. Go to www.maths300.com/sample.

2019 Commonwealth Bank Teaching Awards

Nominations are now open for the 2019 Commonwealth Bank Teaching Awards. Twelve recipients will each be awarded $45 000 for professional development, an overseas education visit and to fund a project at your school.

The Awards are open to all registered teachers and school leaders currently working in any Australian school. Nominate a colleague or apply yourself.

Applications close 27 September, with winners to be announced at a ceremony in Sydney in March 2019.

For more information go to www.teachingawards.com.au.

[featured resource] Fractions: Teaching for Understanding

Jenni Way & Janette Bobis (Eds)

The anxiety that students (and teachers) experience with this core topic prompted the editors to bring together research on the teaching and learning of fractions. There are 18 carefully selected articles covering the key mathematical concepts, common student misunderstandings and strategies to correct them, the value of making connections to other topics, and the use of technology to support learning. There are many useful references, plus some student activities and classroom resources.

#AAM118 $45.00 * AAMT members $36.00 *

www.aamt.edu.au/Webshop/Entire-catalogue/Fractions

[reduced] Patterns in Mathematics: Investigating Patterns in Shape and Number (Lower)

Leanne Burgess

This collection of blackline masters is designed to encourage younger students to begin to observe, describe, extend and create patterns. Activities vary from simple shape and colour patterns to number sequences and finding rules.

#RIC005 $25.00 * AAMT members $20.00 *

While stocks last

www.aamt.edu.au/Webshop/Reduced/Patterns-in-Mathematics-Lower

Download a complete PDF catalogue of resources sold by AAMT from www.aamt.edu.au/Webshop/Catalogue.