26/06/2009 - 08:30
27/06/2009 - 17:00
Australia/Brisbane
Annual Conference ‘Maths– It’s Time’
Registration opens at 8am on Friday and Saturday. Conference booklets will be available at registration. Click here for program overview. Check qamt Twitter for regular updates!
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Conference Friday 26-Saturday 27 June 8.30am -5.00pm.
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Professor of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education Monash University
Professor Sullivan has been a teacher for 10 years, working in schools and universities in Papua New Guinea for six years. He has extensive experience in research and teaching in teacher education and has been a member of the Social, Behavioural and Economic Sciences panel of the Australian Research Council College of Experts for 2005 to 2007, and worked both at the Australian Catholic University and La Trobe University. Currently he is Associate Editor, Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education, and Professor of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, at Monash University.Peter was responsible for the Framing Paper for Mathematics which formed the focal point of discussions at the recent National Curriculum Forums.
Dr Laurence M Besley
Chief Executive and Chief Metrologist National Measurement Institute
Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research
"Relating numbers to accuracy - the role of measurement".
Dr Laurie Besley is the Chief Executive and Chief Metrologist at the National Measurement Institute (NMI). He has occupied this position since December 2007. Dr Besley’s scientific and management career has spanned a diversity of fields including, for the last ten years, metrology in chemistry. After beginning his career in cryogenic temperature measurement and spending 20 years working in physical metrology, he applied his PhD in chemistry to transplanting the metrological approach from physics to chemistry and initiated work in this area within what was then the National Measurement Laboratory (NML). He has a publication list of some 75 journal publications in a variety of different fields of metrology.
The National Measurement Institute (NMI) is responsible for all functions in legal, physical, chemical and biological metrology (the science of measurement).
Closing Speaker Dr Marty Ross
Marty Ross is a mathematical nomad. At the age of 2, he ran away from America to join the circus. After some controversy involving an elephant, he returned to America to do his PhD on minimal surfaces at Stanford University. After a stint at Rice University, he came back to Australia. Since then, he has wandered from Maths Department to Maths Department, aimless but happy.
Marty is an entertaining and engaging speaker whose presentation will be fun and topical in keeping with the conference theme. Marty has done many public lectures on interesting topics such as The Da Vinci Code and other mathematical nonsense & Strange harmonies: the mathematics of music.
Venue: Moreton Bay College, Manly West
Some of the presenters & titles include:
Anderson Rodney Getting the most out of your TI-Nspire CAS Teacher Edition Computer Software and Connect To Class Software & Using Sliders in Graphs and Geometry on the TI-Nspire.(Sec)
Anderson Robyn Time for little ones (Primary)
Boggs Rex 10 to 1: My Top Ten Maths Lessons with an Interactive Whiteboard(Middle)
Carter Lyn It’s Time To Embed Literacy Teaching In Mathematics (4-12)
Finnane Maureen When things don’t measure up: It’s time to build a student’s quantity sense(Primary)
Hourigan Melissa Time for Technology in the Maths Classroom (lower /middle sec)
Makar Katie Bringing mathematics to life! Connecting mathematics to the world through inquiry (P-7)
Simpson Bill Fractals, Mobile ‘phones and SBS HD (sec)
Col Stevenson, Jan Cavanagh, Jim Lowe, Bob Bird, Joe Ousby, Steve Norton plus many more
Dinner :Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron, Manly Friday 26th 7pm with live entertainment provided by our very own president Greg Bland's band The Affordables.
Nearby accommodation:
A 4 star motel located adjacent to the Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron where Brisbane meets the Bay in Manly, Queensland. Approx $145 per night.
A 4 star hotel only minutes off the Gateway Motorway; Brisbane CBD and airport are a 15 minute drive, the Gold Coast 50 minutes away and the Sunshine Coast just 1 hour.
