Maths at the Museum
Teacher Professional Development Workshop

 Presented by Future Makers — a partnership between Queensland Museum and Shell's QGC business

Join the Queensland Museum education team for a twilight Teacher Professional Development session showcasing a range of learning resources connecting real-world objects and research with Years 5–9 Australian Mathematics Curriculum.

Teachers and home educators will participate in hands-on activities and view exhibition content to finding engaging new ways to teach concepts such as percentages, cartesian planes, density, aspect ratio, Fibonacci sequence and data collection.

A range of take-home learning resources with clear curriculum links are provided so that you can easily implement these activities in your classroom.

Registration and afternoon tea from 3:30pm.

A CPD Certificate will be sent to participants following the delivery of the event.

GUEST SPEAKER

Dr Andrew Amey

As Collection Manager of Amphibians and Reptiles, Herpetology at Queensland Museum, Andrew will demonstrate how he uses mathematics to measure specimens and differentiate between species. Currently he is working on a project to describe several new to science species of limb-reduced skink.  

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