Just as the science of reading has become the gilded focus for those intent on bettering the trajectory of children’s ...
Faced with plunging participation rates, how can maths teaching be revitalised?
There's a prediction that maths instruction in Australian schools is poised on the precipice of revolution.
Many ask ‘if it’s not of practical use to students, is mastery of sophisticated maths a fundamentally fruitless endeavour for schools?’ Greg Ashman says “absolutely not! ...we should [for example] unashamedly value algebra as an enduring and powerful product of culture. And what is education for if it is not the perpetuation of culture?”
Many ask ‘if it’s not of practical use to students, is mastery of sophisticated maths a fundamentally fruitless endeavour for schools?’ Greg Ashman says “absolutely not! ...we should [for example] unashamedly value algebra as an enduring and powerful product of culture. And what is education for if it is not the perpetuation of culture?”
