When is the next Mathematics conference in Australia?
Would you have said Perth in April?
ACAL and ACTA have put together an entire stream in their International conference program focused on teaching numeracy and mathematics. There are lots of other choices as part of the Diversity Exchanging ways of being conference but if your main focus is to learn more about teaching Mathematics, here's how you can do it.
Numeracy keynote
Professor Bill Barton Past President of International Commission on Mathematical Instruction has one of the Keynotes speaking on Numeracy as cultural exchange.
Numeracy sessions
Choose from the concurrent sessions with Mathematics topics including:
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Literacy + Mathematics + Language = Numeracy? - Dave Tout
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Teaching literacy through numeracy - Jennifer Williamson and Iryna Dwyer
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Designing adult numeracy classes through a language filter - Beth Marr
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Literacy through STEM – Science focus - David Ford
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Strengthening the N in LLN: why addressing numeracy skills is crucial - Dave Tout
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Reducing the impact of dyslexia on numeracy - Shirley Houston
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Learning Western mathematics: success for Indigenous students in a remote setting - Di Tomazos
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Numeracy Activities for Living in a Multicultural World - Prof. Bill Barton
Monday Numeracy Symposium
And to wrap it all up after the conference proper, sign up for the Symposium on Monday titled Let's Talk About Numeracy: Bringing numeracy and language together in multilingual classrooms.
So the next mathematics conference ...
So Mathematics teachers working in English as a second language contexts or in adult literacy and numeracy should be heading for Perth in April. Are you?
May be the dollar numbers don't add up for you?
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