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Posted Thursday, 31 October 2019

Breaking the fear of speaking in class and getting the answer wrong

Jodie uses warm-up activities to encourage her class to speak up and join in with class discussions.

Educators

Posted Monday, 14 October 2019

Lessons Learnt and the Value of Sharing

Kate reflects on the importance of taking little steps to introduce powerful new methods, and how sharing and discussing with …

Educators

Posted Wednesday, 25 September 2019

Primary Aged Students Tackling University Level Concepts!

By applying a process of reasoning, analysis and logic, a group of students work through abstract mathematical ideas and …

Company

Posted Thursday, 18 October 2018

Celebrating 30 Years of “The Scitech Effect,” and Scitech’s New Future Direction

For thirty years, Scitech has created clever, relevant and inspiring ways to engage and stimulate minds by explaining the world.

Educators

Posted Monday, 16 September 2019

Reasoning, Problem Solving and Justification – A Classroom Journey

Hilary shows how her students have developed the skills and enjoyment of reasoning, problem solving and justification.

Educators

Posted Tuesday, 10 September 2019

Effective Differentiation through One Good Question

Lisa discusses how she used the ACoM problem solving format with one good question to allow differentiation within her …

Educators

Posted Wednesday, 28 August 2019

What do you see? How many?

Scott and Ryan use unit chats as quick and engaging ways to warm-up a maths lesson.

Educators

Posted Friday, 9 August 2019

Fear Factors

Arna describes how her class lose their fear of collaborating and speaking out and how students from a range of ability …

Educators

Posted Monday, 8 July 2019

Exploring Insights and Addressing Misconceptions

Susie explains how her confidence, ability and even appreciation of maths itself, has grown through the lessons she has run …

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Educators

Posted Wednesday, 26 June 2019

On coaching, capsicums and connectionist teaching: My journey so far…

Rachel gives a detailed account of her journey through the Alcoa Champions of Maths program, showing, through examples, the …

Educators

Posted Tuesday, 18 June 2019

Discussion is Critical to Understanding

Jodie talks about the importance of discussion in her class and how it leads to deeper understanding.

Educators

Posted Thursday, 6 June 2019

Do you make this mistake with word problems?

The vocabulary we use and how we look at language in maths problems can send really different messages to students around …

This November, bring a friend for FREE and share the Scitech experience you know and love. 🧑‍🤝‍🧑✨ Tag your freebie friend! . For more info, visit the link in bio.

Check out these spooky skeleton 'sea squirts'! 👻 What strange animals are giving you #Halloween vibes? . 📷: Sudachi / Flickr via @csirogram . #Halloween2019 #spooky #skeleton #marinescience

Did you know that honey bees can do math? New research has found that they're even better at arithmetic that we thought! Especially when motivated to perform well. 🍯

WOW that's some STELLAR footage of @csirogram's Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) radio telescope in rural WA! Australia is in a "sweet spot" for space research - our location in the southern hemisphere, our huge landmass and our sparse population allows for low light and little electromagnetic interference. ☄️⠀ ⠀ 🎥: Alex Cherney⠀ ⠀ #space #CSIRO #WAscience

Engaging Western Australians in STEM

To the #heliosphere and beyond! @NASA's Voyager 2 has made it to interstellar #space, twelve billion miles from Ear… https://t.co/9mRM5dc704

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