Projects

With funding from the Australian Government, the Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers Inc. has established this four year project to develop an evidence base of practices that improve Indigenous students' learning in mathematics and numeracy.

The AAMT is working with Teaching Australia to manage the development of national professional standards for accomplished primary teaching.

"You Can Do Maths" is a community service announcement by AAMT about careers involving mathematics

The Council of the AAMT will be developing a range of initiatives over the next 2-3 years to explore and enhance the ways the AAMT — and state and territory mathematics teacher associations — use online means for teacher professional learning.

The Catholic Education Office of Melbourne is supporting a around 50 of its teachers to be assessed against the AAMT Standards for Excellence in Teaching Mathematics in Australian Schools over the next five years.

The AAMT is establishing an initial project to record interviews with significant contributors to Australian mathematics education.

The AAMT, in conjunction with staff from the University of New England, has completed a project entitled Maths: Why Not? Unpacking reasons for students' decisions concerning higher-level mathematics in the senior years. The Final Report was released by the Deputy Prime Minister on 8 April 2008; the Executive Summary and a discussion of key recommendations and their implications for the AAMT are also available.

The AAMT has received funding from the Science, ICT and Mathematics Education for Rural and Regional Australia (SiMERR) initiative to conduct projects to improve services to non-metropolitan members.

An ongoing collaboration between AAMT and Early Childhood Australia (ECA) which has already seen the publication of a joint Position Paper on Early Childhood Mathematics.

A project looking at use of the AAMT's Standards for Excellence in Teaching Mathematics in Australian Schools in teachers' professional learning.