The Australian Association of Maths Teachers has recently launched a campaign, entitled “You can do maths!“, to raise awareness among young people as to the importance of mathematics in a variety of careers. Here are the two advertisements created so far by the project:
There is currently a competition for students to write an outline for a script for the third advertisement, which closes 14 August.
Filed under: Secondary education
Maths is fun. It continue to be portrayed as for geeks but it can be taught so that it is fun. Yesterday I was teaching my kids a card trick – then used maths to explain the trick. Great fun.