Date:  Friday 24th May 2024

Time: 9:00am - 3:20pm

Venue:  Seaview, Willaimstown (Melbourne)

Registration Enquiries: Email Carla at carla.lovemaths@gmail.com

Cost: $289 per person

Dianne Siemon is an Emeritus Professor at RMIT University. She has been involved in pre-service mathematics education for well over 30 years and remains actively involved in the professional development of practicing teachers, particularly in relation to the development of the ‘big ideas’ in Number and the use of rich assessment tasks to inform teaching. Di has directed a number of large-scale research projects including Building Community Capital to Support Sustainable Numeracy Education in Remote Locations (2006-2009), Scaffolding Numeracy in the Middle Years (2003-2006), Researching Numeracy Teaching Approaches in Primary Schools (2001-2003), and the Middle Years Numeracy Research (1999-2001). Di is a Past President and Life Member of the Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers and the Mathematical Association of Victoria.

James Russo is an educator and researcher interested in a wide range of research topics including: the role of challenging tasks, games, and children’s literature as pedagogical approaches; teacher and student emotional responses in the primary mathematics classroom; better understanding the relationship between classroom practice and academic research; and the learning and teaching of mental computation and estimation. James writes regularly for a range of teacher practitioner journals and continues to spend some of his week team-teaching in a primary classroom. He uses this as a space to develop and test teaching ideas, and to stimulate thinking about his research.

Rob Vingerhoets is an experienced and highly effective educator who has worked with teachers and students in New York City, Beijing, Vietnam, Indonesia, Singapore and throughout Australia. He was a primary school principal, curriculum coordinator and classroom teacher. Rob is also an experienced author who has written a number of maths resource books and articles.  Rob is a popular presenter of hands-on and engaging maths ideas and practices. He spends a large proportion of his time working in classrooms and he understands how to engage students in mathematics. He teaches via enjoyable, challenging and mathematically rich tasks – most of which are open-ended.

Jane Hubbard has a passion for improving all areas of mathematics learning and teaching in primary schools. She has over 15 years of classroom teaching experience along with seven years driving school-wide improvement as a mathematics leader.  Her own professional learning experiences such as Contemporary Teaching and Learning of Mathematics (CTLM) (ACU) and Encouraging Persistence, Maintaining Challenge (EPMC) (Monash) have been transformative in shaping Jane’s beliefs about how students best learn mathematics.  Jane is a current PhD candidate at Monash University where her research has focused on identifying Year 2 students' mathematical competence and attitudes when they engage in mathematics through sequences of challenging tasks. She also works part time as mathematics learning consultant supporting leaders and teachers to drive school wide mathematics improvement.  

Michael Minas has worked in education for over 25 years and his areas of interest include problem solving and student engagement. Michael’s YouTube channel features 100 videos of engaging maths games and has attracted over a million views from educators from across the globe.  In 2018, Michael’s ability to shape learning was recognised when he won a CHOOSEMATHS Teaching Excellence Award. He presents at conferences around Australia and provides consultancy services to a range of organisations, including the Mathematical Association of Victoria and the Victorian Academy of Teaching and Leadership.  Michael was the editor of Prime Number and is a contributing author for the Open Middle and Maths300 websites.  He is also the author of Understanding and Teaching Primary Mathematics in Australia.