20250730 MAV25 synopsis - Flipbook - Page 114
SESSION G: Friday, 2pm-3pm (cont.)
Key takeaways:
1. Approaches for integrating the Thinking Classroom
pedagogy in your school.
2. Insights into navigating and overcoming common
challenges.
G05 PERSONAL MATHS - THAT YOU NEVER
KNEW YOU HAD!
3. Strategies for gathering evidence of impact on teacher
effectiveness and student outcomes, including engagement,
collaboration, resilience, confidence, and mathematical
achievement.
Subtheme: Innovation and inspiration
Paul Bowyer, Mathematicalendar, Mount St Benedict
College, Sydney
(Year 5 to Year 10)
This is a commercial presentation
This presentation/workshop explores the hidden maths personal maths - that’s present in us all, derived from our
birthdays. Covering ideas like personal fractions, coordinates,
Pythagorean triads, equations and more, it can serve as an
interesting framework for your maths teaching. It’s creative
and a rich source of surprising new ideas and frontiers!
Subtheme: Pedagogy and curriculum
Key takeaways:
David Lewis, SmartLab
(F to Year 10)
1. Creative framework to motivate students and help them
thrive.
SmartLab is an Australian online diagnostic and learning
platform used by hundreds of schools to support
differentiated the learning across the Victorian and Australian
Mathematics Curriculum.
2. Creative interpretation of the curriculum.
G04 SMARTLAB: AN AUSTRALIAN
DIAGNOSTIC AND LEARNING PLATFORM
FOR MATHEMATICS
This session will demonstrate how SmartLab’s comprehensive
pre, post and retention diagnostics reveal student strengths
and gaps across topics, allowing for informed, data-driven
lesson planning. Teachers can access detailed individual,
class and cohort reports to guide their teaching strategies.
The session will also dive into SmartLab’s adaptive learning
tools including engaging videos, interactive worksheets and
scaffolded practice questions. It will also show how learning
material responds directly to diagnostic outcomes, offering
tailored support that adapts to each student’s progress. The
session will also showcase how SmartLab promotes student
agency by giving learners access to their own results and
recommended learning pathways. This presentation will
showcase how SmartLab helps drive targeted intervention,
supports differentiated instruction and enhances student
achievement and confidence in mathematics.
Key takeaways:
1. Discover how SmartLab diagnostics identify individual and
cohort learning needs.
2. Learn how to use data to personalise instruction and inform
lesson planning.
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ASSOCIATION OF VICTORIA
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3. Explore adaptive resources that provide targeted,
differentiated support for every student.
3. As well as the classroom, it can be used at home with family
and friends.
G06 EMPOWERING MATHEMATICS
THROUGH TEACHER INQUIRY: INSIGHTS
FROM ISV
Subtheme: Innovation and inspiration
David Burton, Independent Schools Victoria
(F to Year 12)
The ISV Teacher Fellowship Program unites educators from
a wide range of learning areas to lead practitioner-driven
inquiry projects that address real-world challenges in teaching
and learning. While the program embraces diverse inquiry
themes — including cross-curriculum priorities, student
agency, and engagement — this session will highlight projects
specifically focused on mathematics.
Presenters will showcase how mathematics educators have
used inquiry to:
•
Deepen mathematical understanding through culturally
responsive pedagogy.
•
Amplify student voice and ownership in curriculum
design.
