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.
As this week is History week in NSW, we thought we would flavour our blogs with a focus on history. The History Council of NSW’s theme is Life and Death. Possibly a slightly macabre theme for young children so I’ve highlighted these two ideas separately…
There has been some debate recently around the notion of an ‘over-crowded curriculum’ in NSW. The mathematics K-6 syllabus with its 250+ pages may be one of the first documents to come under fire for having too much content…
Well once again one of the big-name supermarkets is ‘giving away’ fantastic toys that can be utilised for mathematics investigations.