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PD from MC
Mathematics Centre is
100% professional learning.
Our programmes derive from collecting and retelling stories of success illustrating that:
All students can learn to
work like a mathematician
in classrooms engineered to
fascinate, captivate and absorb learners
- This approach synthesises with any formal curriculum document.
- We do not offer a replacement curriculum.
- We offer alternative lenses through which you might interpret your given curriculum.
- We also offer teacher-developed resources to help you enact your version of an alternative that achieves the formal objectives.
We believe:
- The teacher in the classroom is our greatest resource.
- Meaningful professional learning involves the teacher in their classroom.
- Mathematics learning involves using materials.
- Mathematics learning involves challenging the intellect.
- Students are creative and love to learn.
- Mathematics is concrete, visual and makes sense.
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Background & Evidence
Teachers have found the hands-on presentation of classroom stories in a challenging workshop environment to be both practical and thought-provoking.
Links below explore models used to encourage this response, and also teacher comment and student work which provides evidence of success.
All workshops explore both teaching craft Features leading to fascinating, captivating, absorbing classrooms and the Working Mathematically process which is our framework for content learning at all levels.
 Workshop Library
Professional Development Partnerships
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Self-directed Professional Learning Opportunities
Self-directed DIY Video Workshops
- Mathematics Centre freely provides the workshop content through the video.
- You provide the local leader to organise, facilitate and follow up the session.
Each video tries to capture the feel of working together as if the video presenter is in the session with you.
Videos have been created to illustrate the concept of all students learning to work like a mathematician in fascinating, captivating, absorbing classrooms. All may be freely used by school, district, cluster and system leaders.
- Click a video image:
...to read a summary of its content,
...find support links, then
...click the image again to view the video from Cube Tube.
Years 2 - 10
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Years K - 6 (8)
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Years 2 - 8 (10)
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Years 2 - 8 (10)
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Years K - 12
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This video is a visual summary of the key content in Aiming High.
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Shorter Video Workshops
The preceding workshops are 'deep dive'. They will support a full day workshop. The eTask Package is also built around a full day DIY workshop with Leader's notes, slides and other support provided.
Our shorter videos, such as The Frog Pond, invite you to create your own
mini-workshops.
Years K - 8 (10) |
Each of the other 37+ videos in the Cube Tube library, some made by students, are potential starting points for PD workshops. Support materials are linked in each one.
Some will have enhanced value if you are a Maths300 member. An example is Billiard Ball Bounces an activity that can be traced at least as far back as the opening pages of MATHEMATICS: A Human Endeavour, Harold R. Jacobs, W. H. Freeman and Company (1970), p.2. The Maths300 enhancement of the content beyond drawings (which is Jacob's representation) is a software version that allows easy change of variables and hence swift checking of hypotheses.
The Mathematics Centre enhancement is to the beginning of the lesson, illustrating an easy way to represent the problem on the 'floorboard' (see video and support materials) as a first step, thereby generating a meaningful reason to draw.
(Keeping a journal is part of the work of a mathematician. How could we make a record of this experiment before we begin the next one?)
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Billiard Ball Bounces is a classic example of how the best of mathematics education has grown over time - in this case a very long time - through teachers committed to a 'share so all can grow' approach. An attitude which was the foundation of how hands-on tasks and task centres began in Canberra, Australia, and how Mathematics Centre has developed through the contributions of hundreds of teachers over more than 30 years.
It is our hope that by visiting and revisiting these inspirational videos with colleagues you will continue to benefit from, and contribute to, the 'share so can all grow' approach.
Cube Tube Library
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