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MAVlist 12:01
Folks,
2012! Welcome all Mathematical Association of Victoria members to another year of mathematics education. The weather prognosis in Victoria is atypical for this time of the year when 'roast the little darlings' seems to be the new school year mantra of whomsovever or whatsoever drives the weather. Indeed, one day I'd love to see an MTQ entry that tests the proposition: "that the first week back for school is always uncomfortably hot weatherwise".
Over the past two months your MAV staff have been hard at it preparing for 2012. Ian Lowe has finished an all new online version of the free-to-members resource Teach Mathematics for Understanding (phew) http://tm4u.mav.vic.edu.au/, Ellen Corovic has written the specification for an MAV 'App' intended to bring the idea of mathematics trails to life on smartphones and these new-fangled tablets. Jennifer Bowden has been busy planning the 2012 MTQ program and then found time to get all of the MAV's current 2012 professional development offerings online at http://registration.mav.vic.edu.au/Reg/. Sharyn Livy has already run about ten professional development sessions (I know, the school year started just last Thursday!), designed a suite of others for later in the year and then joined Ellen to work on some exciting financial literacy resources materials that a consortium led by the good folk at the Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers are putting together. ALSO, all of your Professional Officers have combined forces with their counterparts at the Victorian Association for the Teaching of English to piece together a fantastic 2012 support program for primary schools as they grapple with planning for implementation of "AusVELS" for English and mathematics education. Yup, TEAM:P is alive and well. Me? You want to ask me what I was doing? Isn't getting my head around all of that stuff enough? Well if you must know, I have been working with Louise Gray and a fabulous team of MAV volunteers to put the finishing touches on our brand new 2012 initiative; Mathematics Active Schools http://www.mav.vic.edu.au/mathematicsactive. Oh, and keeping up with some mathematics education news just so I can pass it on to you all:
MAVlist 11:15
Folks,
The Annual MAV Conference is over. The 2,000 mathematics educators and hangers-on in attendance have all wended their way home, hopefully chock full of ideas and inspiration for 2012. The MAV office is now putting the finishing touches on, wait for it …. (sorry, but this claim really does deserve capitalisation) THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE MAV PD ANNUAL PROGRAM EVER! 2012 will be BIG. More professional learning opportunities than you can poke a stick at, the BEST mathematics education books and resources all at ONE place, the MAVShop http://www.mav.vic.edu.au/mav-resources/mav-shop.html and a set of fantastic student and public activities to help keep mathematics education to the fore. But 2011 is not yet over, so here is your dose of mathematics education related news:
MAVlist 11:14
Folks,
Just a few weeks to THE mathematics education event of 2011; Maths IS Multi-Dimensional and it will be taking over La Trobe University on Thursday, 1 and Friday, 2 December! Haven't registered yet to join 2,000 of your closest professional colleagues? Well, by special decree, I hereby announce that the MAV will IGNORE the registration deadlines and keep the online registration system OPEN, especially for YOU (special decrees require lots of capitalised words for some reason). Get in quick to secure your spot at the conference. Go to http://registration.mav.vic.edu.au/Reg/ to register now. If you need a username and password contact the MAV office at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or on 03 9380 2399. Oh, and don't forget that members who renew for 2012 by 30 November will be in the hunt for fabulous prizes at the celebrated Happy Hour draw - so visit http://registration.mav.vic.edu.au/Reg/login.php to rejoin the MAV for 2012, or, if you wish, you can complete your membership renewal at the same time as registering for the 2011 Annual Conference. Just click on the membership tab at the top of your browser screen. Anyways, here is some further mathematical news:
MAVlist 11:13
Folk,
So, a false spring followed by wet and cold weather. And during the school holidays to boot. Oh well. At least there is plenty of mathematics education news to warm the cockles of your heart:
MAVlist 11:12
Folk,
Warm weather and netball and football finals. Ahhh September! For the MAV office this means VCE mathematics revision lectures http://www.mav.vic.edu.au/activities/student-activities/vce-revision-lectures.html and preparation for multidimensional mathematics at the December Annual Conference http://www.mav.vic.edu.au/activities/professional-learning-opportunities/mav-annual-conference.html. Mind you, for me it also means a new all-steel bicycle http://dazzlingbikes.com/2009/10/16/viva-papa/ to go with my new all-steel hip. I daresay September has additional special meaning for you, too. What unites us, of course, is an interest in mathematics education news. So, here is an update:
MAVlist 11:11
Folks,
Please visit the MAV web site http://www.mav.vic.edu.au for lots of news and, of course, an opportunity to see where we are up to with planning for the Annual Conference (did you know that Maths is Multi-dimensional?) on Thursday, 1 and Friday, 2 December 2011. In fact, the Synopsis Book is at the printers right now BUT, registrations, folk, for the conference are already open! Yup, visit http://registration.mav.vic.edu.au/Reg/ and you can register right now. Mind you, this professional development page has details of a whole lot more professional learning opportunities as well. Congratulations are in order to Jeanne Carroll, Julie Allen and the Conference Committee for such a fabulous program for 2011. Anyways, enough of December 2011, here is some news about stuff that is happening right now:
MAVlist 11:10
Folks,
Just a quick follow up to Monday morning's MAVlist. The wonderful staff at the MAV have been hard at work putting together some pretty amazing stuff and so I wanted to make sure you were all up to speed on the following items:
MAVlist 11:09
Folks,
Thank you to those who sent best wishes about my hip replacement. It has been an absolute revelation. To be pain free and mobile is just so liberating. Might well be able to dance at the MAV Annual Conference Dinner on Thursday, 1 December 2011! So, while I have been working at rehabilitation and staying on touch via what has now become, in a very short space of time, a venerable iPad, the MAV staff have been flat out delivering great professional development services across the State and preparing for several exciting ventures for the rest of 2011. You could check this all out at http://www.mav.vic.edu.au or even check in to the MAV at http://www.facebook.com/mathematicalassociationofvictoria but you might just want to read on first .....
MAVlist 11:08
Folks,
Look out for my first real MAVlist early next week. It will be packed with heaps of good mathematics education news. In the meantime, standby for some very special notices that just could not wait:
MAVlist 11:07
Folks,
Love MAVlist? We do too. But just because you receive MAVlist, doesn’t mean you are a fully paid up, bona fide member of the MAV. We have put the database under the spotlight and see that we have some people and schools who have not renewed their membership in 2011. Avoid the call from us – instead, why don’t you give us a quick call on 9380 2399 and double check your membership status. It will only take a second.
MAVlist 11:06
Folks,
Second term already! In the mathematics education world this heralds change; MTQ Schools are busy getting their 2011 project together http://www.mav.vic.edu.au/files/MTQ.pdf; VCE students are getting ready to visit the Age VCE & Careers Expo http://www.vceandcareers.com.au/ this weekend; Schools across Victoria are readying themselves for NAPLAN and the like and mathematics teachers are wondering how they fit everything else they need to cover into what is left of 2011. But do not despair! The MAV web site and the special members only "Teach Maths for Understanding" CD-ROM http://www.mav.vic.edu.au/mav-resources/curriculum-planning.html distills the very best of advice about organising the curriculum and the classroom to enable each and every student be the best mathematician they can possibly be. And just to keep things ticking over, here is the latest news:
MAVlist 11:05
Folks,
The only item in this MAVlist is Australian Rules Football. Discard this e-mail now if you don't give a fig about footy. Otherwise, read on. You see, this is a reminder that all footy tipping competitions begin TODAY at the 'fall of the ball', 7:40pm at the 'G.
MAVlist 11:04
Folks,
Last week brought MAVlist Edition 11:03. Thank you to those members who wrote thanking the MAV office for this newsletter - we do appreciate feedback, positive or otherwise. If you missed the third edition you can catch it at http://www.mav.vic.edu.au/about-us/mavlist/ or you could just start at http://www.mav.vic.edu.au and take in all of the mathematics education news, resources and advice that your membership of the MAV brings you (Oh! Not renewed for 2011? Never fear, Michael Green This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it 9380 2399 will see you right). This edition of MAVlist brings you important news about a very special free public lecture, a wonderful PD day for early career primary school teachers and the FOOTY. So read on …
MAVlist 11:03
Folks,
The first two MAVlists for 2011 have carried a lot of good mathematics education news. If you have missed them, they are posted to the MAV web site at http://www.mav.vic.edu.au/about-us/mavlist/ - and don't forget that you will also find a heap of other news, resources and ideas at http://www.mav.vic.edu.au
So, here is your mid-March 2011 MAVlist news:
MAVlist 11:02
Folks,
What a difference a (slightly) later start to the school year makes! Here at the MAV office we have found that everything is only now just starting to happen with a rush; heaps of schools are yet to renew their memberships, way more than last year (Contact Michael Green This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it 93802399 if you are one of these many), publications orders are coming in apace, folk are only just now waking up to the mass of professional development the MAV is offering http://registration.mav.vic.edu.au/index.php and, despite a recent flurry of activity, our MAV Professional Officers still have space on their calendars to visit your school and do wonderful mathematical education type thingys for you. So, if you missed the eighteen (yes, 18) news items in MAVlist Edition 11:01, you can catch up with them all at http://www.mav.vic.edu.au/component/content/article/1-latest/372-mavlist-1101.html. Otherwise, take a seat and buckle in for yet more mathematics education news:
MAVlist 11:01
Folks,
As I looked back over the MAVlist archives (yes, even ephemera such as this gets stored somewhere!) I realised that the weather has featured in the lead-in to the first MAVlist each year for the past eight! This has usually been because of the statistically improbable phenomenon that manages to make the first week back at school just about the warmest and most humid of the year. I mean, the Department keeps moving the week around and somehow the weather manages to follow. Two years ago it was the tragedy associated with bushfire.
This year it is fire, flood and cyclone.
The MAV staff and Councillors extend their sincere sympathies to any school communities affected by these extreme weather events. The MAV will be happy to do all that it can to help ensure that mathematics classrooms are not disrupted in 2011 because of these events. The MAV will volunteer to endeavour to make good any MAV resources lost as a result of the recent events and to pass on generous offers of support such as the one from Texas Instruments, relayed later on in MAVlist. Please just write and let me know what the MAV can do to assist This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
But now, as students rush back to school all across Victoria, here is your first dose (and its a biggie!) of mathematics education news for the year.
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