Katherin Cartwright is a passionate mathematics educator and is currently a sessional lecturer and tutor at The University of Sydney teaching mathematics to pre-service teachers in primary education. She has just completed her PhD researching teacher noticing of mathematical fluency in primary students.

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What do you know?

I’ve been wondering recently about how to help students make connections between concepts and to their prior knowledge in the classroom. We know that mathematical ideas are connected and often build on each other, so how to ensure students ‘see’ these links? I think we have been moving in a good ‘direction of understanding’ in…

There’s maths in that!

In this blog I’m exploring the mathematics students can notice in everyday scenes and objects. Images are a great stimulus for mathematical discourse in the classroom and make for a great way to launch your lesson and ‘hook’ students into the maths. I have lots of images in our resource section for noticing and wondering…