Deadly Maths News

5 September 2008

The new look BMEC website is under construction

Try out the beta here: http://beta.bmec.oz-teachernet.edu.au/.

13 August 2008

Indigenous students find maths is a good yarn

Annette Baturo and Tom Cooper teach Deadly Maths, but not as in deadly boring. Rather, the two Queensland University of Technology academics have spent years working out ways to make the Queensland high school maths syllabus relevant, even appealing, for remote Indigenous students.

This article appeared in The Australian's Higher Education section on 13 August, 2008.

11 July 2008

Deadly Maths brings numbers to life

Two QUT academics are on a mission to make maths accessible to and enjoyable for everyone in Queensland, and have travelled to rural communities and Indigenous schools to ensure this happens.
Dr Annette Baturo and Professor Tom Cooper, both from the Faculty of Education are the founders of the Deadly Maths program, which has, since 2001, seen them devote much of their time and energy to educating Indigenous students in maths.
Dr Baturo said the project started after a visit to Woorabinda Aboriginal Community where they were asked by two principals to come back and work with the schools. More

26 March 2008

Todd takes Indigenous education message to world

We are very proud of Education student and QUT Research Assistant and Teacher Associate Todd Phillips, a valuable member of the Deadly Maths team. More

17 March 2008

Deadly Maths Logo Design Competition

We received many entries for the Deadly Maths Logo Design Competition.

We enjoyed the pictures, and especially the children's descriptions of their drawings. While none of the entries were suitable for use as a logo, we will use some of the images on our website, so keep an eye out in the near future. Dr Annette Baturo mailed a letter and a certificate of participation to each entrant.

Participating schools were Doomadgee State School, Urandangi State School and St Josephs Catholic Primary School at Murgon.

Last Modified: 09:27:31 Friday, 5 September, 2008