Next Maths Teachers Day

Tuesday June 26, 2012

The School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics holds an annual Mathematics Teachers Day on campus at the University of Wollongong. The University is committed to supporting schools in its regions and one of the ways we aim to do this is by providing professional development for teachers. This day is a chance to interact with world class academics, to respond to ideas for mathematics teaching from your peers, to increase awareness of trends of professional interest, and to network with colleagues. There is no registration fee and lunch is provided free of charge.

2012 Program

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Talks and materials from 2011 Mathematics Teachers Day - Program 2011

Medical Mathematics	A/Prof Annette Worthy
Statistics - Data Displays	Dr Carole Birrell
Aust. Curriculum - The Transition Years	Janine McIntosh

Talks and materials from 2010 Mathematics Teachers Day - Program 2010

Statistics	A/Prof Ken Russell
Sketchup	Dr Peter Gould
Australian Curriculum	Dr Michael Evans

Talks and materials from 2009 Mathematics Teachers Day

Techniques for Mental Arithmetic - Other resources to follow	Mr Michael Clapper
Developing representational Competence	Dr Peter Gould
ATAR:How is it calculated and what can we predict? ATAR - Presentation version	A/Prof Jacqui Ramagge
MATH141 workshop files MATH142 workshop files	Dr Caz Sandison

Talks and materials from 2008 Mathematics Teachers Day

Mathematical Modelling in Nanotechnology	Dr Natalie Thamwattana
In all Probability - 2 Slides per page - 6 Slides per page	Dr Michael Evans
Unreal Numbers - The story of p-adic numbers	A/Prof Jacqui Ramagge

Talks and materials from previous Mathematics Teachers Day

Google’s success and page rank algorithms Assoc Professor Greg Doherty	The success of Google is predominantly due to mathematics – Google’s page rank algorithm. This talk presents some of the background to this success and some of the mathematics of page rank algorithms.
An Introduction to the Laptop Program in Year 7 at St Mary’s Gerry Sozio - Head Mathematics Teacher at St Mary Star of the Sea College, Wollongong	This talk describes an Australia wide Mathematics Program for Schools. A Pilot Program has been run for years’ 7 & 8 with over 130 schools being involved in the program. The nature of the material and the aims of the program are presented.
Opinion polls Professor David Steel	A high profile application of mathematical methods is the opinion polls. There are several factors affecting their interpretation that are discussed: sampling error, coverage, analysis of lead and combining several surveys.
Link to formulas for pi	A list of formulas for pi prepared for Mathematics Teachers Day
Link to mathematical quotations	List of mathematical quotations prepared for Mathematics Teachers Day
An application of functions of the form (ax+b)/(cx+d) to a resource allocation problem. Assoc Professor Rod Nillsen	An aim of this talk, as with the one given in 2005(see below), was to show how school-level mathematics can be used to analyze issues of public policy. The problem here is to determine how recipients of funding would be affected should the criteria for allocating the funds be changed. The issue arose explicitly when the West report on higher education (1998) proposed to change the relative importance of funding to universities based upon teaching and research. A paper based on this talk will appear in The Australian Senior Mathematics Journal. Further information can be found at http://www.uow.edu.au/~nillsen
Can quadratic functions tell us whether Brendan Nelson is really trying to save taxpayers' money? Assoc Professor Rod Nillsen	The talk shows how the school-level technique for maximizing a quadratic function can be applied to analyze a controversial issue of public policy -- namely, the extent to which government subsidies to independent schools save taxpayers' money. A paper based on this talk was published in The Australian Senior Mathematics Journal. (vol.21, 2007, pp.58-64). Further information can be found at http://www.uow.edu.au/~nillsen

Summertime Maths

The School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics has developed information for high school students, mathematics teachers and careers advisers, with a number of aims:

1. To provide information regarding Mathematics studies at the University of Wollongong;

2. To encourage students to take the appropriate level of HSC Mathematics for their career choice;

3. To show the relevance of Mathematics in today's world;

4. To provide remedial material for students to use in preparation for University studies.

The information is available online http://www.math.uow.edu.au/subjects/summer/ Please take a look and tell us what you think! Feedback should be sent to Caz Sandison.

Notes: The site contains a number of video clips that are quite large in size. We recommend you use a broadband link to view the site.

Last reviewed: 20 April, 2012