Online Learning Series 2022 – Session 6 Workshop

Presenter – Prof. Chris Matthews – ATSIMA

In the final session of the online series, Chris will be presenting on behalf of the team at Moree East Public School who are part of an ATSIMA professional learning project funded by the NSW Education Department across Connected Community Schools. The presentation will give a brief introduction to the Goompi Model and outline how the model shaped the professional learning program using place value as an example. Chris will then explore how the team at Moree East Public School brought these ideas into the classroom which culminated into students creating their own representations of place value.

Online Learning Series 2022 – Session 5 Workshop

Presenters – Jessica Lawson and Shane Hunt, Heathmont College and Rebecca McIntyre, Coonamble Public School

Presentation 1 – Jessica Lawson and Shane Hunt – Educators, Heathmont College VIC.
Shane & Jess showcase their fabulous maths resource in statistical reasoning. Based around knowledge from the local Kulin Nation and a counting system, the Wurundjeri seasons, and when to go eel trapping. This Toyota funded ATSIMA resource incorporates latest content from the Australian Curriculum.

Presentation 2 – Rebecca McIntyre – Educator, Coonamble Public School NSW.
Rebecca presents on the amazing place value lessons the school developed through their ATSIMA project where they used the local Castlereagh river and yabbying as their visual representation and context for learning, knowing that students would be able to easily make cultural connections with the teaching learning process.

Online Learning Series 2022 – Session 4 Workshop

Presenters – Dr Caty Morris and Kelsey Bonds

Presenter 1 – KELSEY BONDS Community Engagement Manager at Indigenous Mapping Workshop Australia.
In Kelsey’s presentation, she will discuss the different industries represented among their Indigenous Mapping Workshop network as well as examples of how and why they have used geospatial technology to map country.

Presenter 2 – CATY MORRIS Project Manager, ATSIMA.
Building on the Introductory Session to this Online Learning Series, Caty takes a deeper dive into the 9 rich First Nations contexts that underpin the new content elaborations in the revised Australian Curriculum: Mathematics with examples from the classroom. This new content tells narratives through the year levels and across the maths strands, connecting back to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures cross-curriculum priority.

Online Learning Series 2022 – Session 3 Keynote

Presenter – Kenneth Dawson
In this keynote session, Kenneth Dawson will draw on his experience as an education leader who advocates the teaching and learning of mathematics (and other learning areas) in connection to Gooniyandi Country, language and family.

Online Learning Series 2022 – Session 1 Introduction

Presenters – Prof. Chris Matthews and Dr Caty Morris
In this introductory session to ATSIMA’s 2022 Learning Series, Chris Matthews and Caty Morris introduce the new 90+ content elaborations in the revised Australian Curriculum: Mathematics that support the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures cross-curriculum priority. These elaborations tell narratives across the year levels and strands of the maths curriculum and are based on 9 rich First Nations Australian contexts. Through the elaborations, these cultural contexts provide a wealth of maths situations that connect to the mandatory part of the AC:M and offer valuable opportunities for educators to contextualise or localise learning.

Online Learning Series 2022 – Session 2 Panel

Panel Members – Renee Songoro and Dr Jared Field
This Panel session will be chaired by ATSIMA’s Prof. Chris Matthews who will have a yarn with Renee Songoro, Saibai Zenadh Kes (Torres Strait), Daru and Hisiu woman, maths and science teacher and Dr Jared Field, Gamilaraay mari, mathematician and academic at the University of Melbourne. Renee and Jared will share their stories as a First Nations Australian mathematician and/or mathematics educator, and how this experience can shape the teaching and learning of mathematics. 

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT TO COUNTRY

CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES IN MATHS

Chris defines what culture means to him and explains why it’s important to embrace different cultural perspectives in maths education.

WHAT IS CULTURE

As Chris explains, when you teach from different cultural perspectives, it allows you to ‘open up the classroom’ and encourage students to consider how their own cultural lenses affect how they approach mathematics. He also demonstrates the knock-on effects cultural influences can have on maths education.

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WHAT IS MATHEMATICS

Chris explains how understanding the role cultural bias plays within mathematics gives you an opportunity to teach maths differently. The aim is to help you incorporate the diverse strengths and learning styles of your students to make maths more relevant, which is ultimately what creates an effective maths classroom.

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THE GOOMPI MODEL

Chris explains The Goompi Model which supports the teaching and learning of mathematics for students while also supporting their cultural identity. It connects mathematics with culture.

INDIGENOUS PERSPECTIVES IN MATHS

Chris explores the connections between mathematics and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures.

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MATHS AS STORYTELLING

Chris looks at the process of Maths as Storytelling.

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LINEAR EQUATIONS

Chris explores a way of transforming the teaching and learning of linear equations using The Goompi Model. This approach allows students to create their own growing patterns for a given linear equation.

SINE WAVES

Chris briefly explores the purpose of Aboriginal kinship systems and connects this to the teaching and learning of trigonometry.

Prof. Chris Matthews delivers an online presentation for the Aboriginal STEM summit.

  Mathematics Through Kinship Systems

Access the presentation here.

SBS News reports Adelaide Students Discover A New Way to Learn Maths. In one classroom, maths is being taught in a new and interesting way. See SBS News article here.

Prof. Chris Matthews’ keynote address (parts 1 & 2) Aboriginal Education Conference, Adelaide, August 2018.

Teaching Culture = Deep Mathematical Learning

Through a cultural lens, Prof. Chris unpacks the Goompi Model and explores different ways to teach mathematics based on creativity and self expression.

Prof. Chris Matthews presents the Hanna Neumann Memorial Lecture 2011 at the AAMT-MERGA Conference 2011.

Finding Terra Nullius – A Personal Journey in Mathematics Education

This is a follow up interview with Prof. Chris Matthews after the Hanna Neumann Lecture at the AAMT-MERGA Conference in Alice Springs in 2011.

Prof. Chris Matthews from Renee Hoareau

Connect with Maths – Quality Teaching and Learning for Indigenous Learners

Prof. Chris Matthews

Changing our mindsets on how we see mathematics to enable children’s curiosity