Katelyn Mclaren, a public high school maths teacher based in far western NSW shares her inspiring journey from teaching Kindergarten to retraining in high school maths. She shares her passion and some of the challenges in teaching number and algebra, her strategies for connecting abstractmathematical concepts to real-world applications, and the importance of focusing on understanding rather than procedures. She explains how ‘slow maths’ happens in her classroom, when she’s learning at the same time as her students.
Links:
Graphing calculators
Desmos https://www.desmos.com/
Geogebra https://www.geogebra.org/
Online platforms https://www.khanacademy.org/math
Edrolo https://edrolo.com.au/
Other maths resources:
NSW (Australia) Mathematics Hub – Number and Algebra
https://www.mathematicshub.edu.au/search/nsw-det-guide-number-and-algebra/
NSW (Australia) Mathematics resources for Years 7–10: