MathsCraft PD Workshops
Full Day Workshops
The full day workshop is an introduction to MathsCraft ideas. You will engage with some MathsCraft problems, and in doing so learn how to give your students an authentic experience of doing maths like a research mathematician.
Suitable for primary and secondary teachers.
AITSL standards addressed:
2.1 – Content and teaching strategies of the teaching area
4.1 – Support student participation
6.2 – Engage in professional learning and improve practice
6.3 – Engage with colleagues and improve practice
Tailored Workshops
Contact our team to discuss your school’s needs and we can tailor a professional development program for you. This can include a MathsCraft session for your students so teachers can see the approach in action.
Upcoming workshops
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Feedback from the 2019 Immersive PD Workshop
My understanding of how mathematicians work has been clarified. I also now have a greater understanding of how MathsCraft emulates this experience for students.
I have learnt that creativity primarily uses well-developed skills.
In all my years of teaching I have never learnt so much in the time available. I wish we could have more exposure to this type of learning/teaching.
Amazing. Exhausting, fun, really really hard work...
[One of the best features was] Having mathematicians working with you, seeing how they approach problems and realising that it's not that different from the rest of us. They just know more 'stuff'.
I loved seeing the mathematicians struggle with problems, work together, get things wrong etc. Much less intimidating than the perception I had in my mind.
Problems can be given in a way that models how to discover. This, for me, is the heart of the immersive workshop.
This event was likely more valuable than all of my previous PD combined
I like the fact that we've been sent to bed each night struggling with at least one problem.
[What I learnt about mathematical research was] There are a lot of pathways. You don't know their potential unless you explore and practise exploring. Some lead to dead ends. Some lead to something interesting. Some lead to the unknown. That is an exciting place, and [research mathematicians] love to go down the rabbit hole. We got to be Alice this week as well.
I have learnt that creativity primarily uses well-developed skills.