The Mathematical Association of Victoria

📅 MAV Holiday Closing Dates As we take a summer break, the MAV office will be closed from December 20th to January 6th. Wishing everyone a safe, relaxing, and joyful holiday season - see you in the new year!

What a year 2024 has been for MAV! We have much to celebrate, from leading the profession in implementing the Victorian Curriculum | Mathematics 2.0 to hosting incredible professional learning events & student activities. ✨ Highlights of the year include: ▪ Annual Conference: Over 1,200 delegates, 172 workshops, & 10 keynotes. ▪ Melbourne Mathematics Conference: 350 delegates attended, with the introduction of an Early Years stream. ▪ Bendigo Regional Conference: A great success, paving the way for four regional conferences planned for 2025! ▪ Over 500 delegates attended the VCE Conference, including virtual on-demand participants. ▪ Student programs: 2400 in the Victorian Coding Challenge, 450 in the Maths Talent Quest, & thousands more in Games Days & our VCE Revision Programs. ▪ Professional learning: 16 webinars, 900 lesson plans, & coaching for 43 schools. ▪ Membership: Representing over 17,000 teachers, leaders, & academics across 917 schools. Thank you to our amazing presenters, sponsors, & community for making this year a success. Together, we’re driving positive change in mathematics education & creating opportunities for Victorian teachers & students. 💪 As we look ahead to 2025, we’re excited to continue building momentum with events, programs, & resources to support you. Wishing you a safe & relaxing summer break. See you in 2025! 🌟 #MAV #MathsEducation #ThankYou #2024WrapUp

VCE Mathematics Conferences 2025 📍 Melbourne Conference Date: 14th February 2025 Venue: RMIT University, Building 80, 445 Swanston St, Melbourne 📍 Regional Conferences Dates: 28th February – 14th March 2025 Venue: Shepparton & Ballarat Join us for a full-day VCE conference tailored to mathematics educators! Choose from four streams: 1. Mathematical Methods 2. Specialist Mathematics 3. General Mathematics 4. Foundation Mathematics 🔑 What’s included? Meet the Assessors lecture/workshop SAC information sessions CAS sessions (regional only) Curriculum and teaching tips (Foundation Mathematics) 📖 Plus, all participants gain access to the online version of the course, featuring recorded sessions and resources available all year long! Don’t miss this opportunity to connect, learn, and enhance your teaching! 👉 Register for Melbourne conference: https://buff.ly/3VH5L8D 👉 Register for Regional conference: https://buff.ly/3VG0tKg #mtbos #VCE2025 #MathsEducation #ProfessionalLearning #TeacherDevelopment

Transform Mathematics Education in 2025! Join us for a dynamic series of regional conferences across Victoria designed to empower educators with strategies for engagement and excellence in mathematics teaching. 📚 What’s on offer? ✔️ Connecting the Victorian Teaching & Learning Model to mathematics education ✔️ Guidance on adapting to the Victorian Curriculum 2.0 ✔️ Techniques to challenge, support, and motivate students ✔️ Insights into explicit instruction and problem-solving strategies ✔️ Tools to build student independence and metacognitive skills 📍 Where & When ▪ Greater Shepparton Secondary College: 28 Feb (Primary, Secondary, VCE) ▪ Ballarat Tech Centre: 14 Mar (Primary, Secondary, VCE) ▪ Clifton Spring Primary School, Barwon Heads: 20 Jun (Primary, Secondary) ▪ Colac Secondary College: 5 Sep (Primary, Secondary) 💻 Learn more & register now: https://buff.ly/4iv0JFQ 🎟️ Registrations essential – secure your spot today! Let’s work together to shape the future of mathematics education. #mtbos #MathsEducation #ProfessionalLearning #RegionalConference #VictoriaSchools

📚 What do you remember about maths at school? Did you breeze through equations or feel lost in the numbers? For many, negative experiences with maths create long-lasting impacts, from poor "mathematical wellbeing" to full-blown maths anxiety. This can even affect future teachers, who often carry "maths trauma" into their own classrooms. A new study highlights how early shame and unsupported learning environments shape these emotions. If maths ever felt like an uphill battle for you, you're not alone. But the good news? With the right approach, these cycles can be broken! Read more about the research here 👉 https://buff.ly/3OQwBHu #mtbos #research #mathsanxiety #student #teachers

MAVCON 24 🎉 What an amazing way to finish the year. I had the privilege of attending and presenting multiple sessions this year, all around hot 🔥 topics. I took hardly any pictures as every session was so engaging. It was so wonderful to be surrounded by like minded people, academics, teachers and leaders here to celebrate the best practice in Mathematics. Thank you to all who attended, presented, exhibited, planned, organised and executed a sensational conference! 👏 Jessica Kurzman Wee Tiong Seah (佘伟忠) Dr Julia Hill Jodie Miller Peter Sullivan The Mathematical Association of Victoria amongst so many more!

The first 50 of the highly anticipated Victorian Lesson Plans are now available on Arc. MAV is thrilled to see these resources, which we collaborated on developing. They will be an excellent starting point and of great assistance in planning for 2025 and implementing the Victorian Curriculum 2.0! 🔗 A link has been added to our Curriculum and Resources page for easy access. 👉 Check it out here https://buff.ly/3D8po2Z We would love to know what you think? How will you use these in your teaching context? #mtbos #lessonplans #victoria #mathematics #curriculum #resources Kimberlin Education

The first Thur and Fri every December! Thanks for the invite to speak as a keynote speaker, The Mathematical Association of Victoria; and thankful for meeting up with many ex-students, 'old' mates, and new friends!

It is always a treat to be connecting with like-minded mathematics educators at The Mathematical Association of Victoria National Conference. Even more special to be connecting to my M.Teach students who I taught in Semester one at University of Melbourne this year. #MAVConference #Mathematics #mathsisfun

Exhibiting MathDingo on Day#2 at MAVCON2024 in Melbourne. A big thank you to all the schools who have expressed interest in the product, we look forward to working with you. Thanks again to Jennifer Bowden for the opportunity, its been great last 2 days, amazing work by The Mathematical Association of Victoria. Looking forward to future collaborations.