Russell Tytler – Video Interview

Developing diagrams and visual representations can lead to huge improvements in student performance and engagement in STEM subjects. Deakin researchers are taking their findings to schools across the country.

2021 International Congress on Mathematical Education (ICME) Conference

ICME 14 to be held 2021 in Shanghai, China

Young students learning the mathematics of measurement through an interdisciplinary approach

Peta White¹, Russell Tytler¹, Joanne Mulligan², Melinda Kirk^1
1Deakin University, ²Macquarie University

2020 STEMFEST Teacher Professional Learning for STEM Futures – Conference

Deakin University Online Teacher Professional Development day

20th November 2020

I wonder why? Make Maths and Science come alive

Prof. Russell Tytler and Dr. Peta White

Exploring Maths through Science – learning while doing. Hands on activities that promote curiosity in learners to explore and understand the ‘why’.

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2020 Science Teachers Association of Victoria Conference (STAVCON)

STAVCON 2020: A Vision for the Future

Online November 27, 2020 @ 8:45 am – 4:30 pm

Interdisciplinary Mathematics and Science Learning

Russell Tytler & Peta White, Deakin University

2020 Australasian Science Education Research Association (ASERA) Conference

2020 Australasian Science Education Research Association (ASERA) Conference

Hosted by University of Wollongong Online Conference: June 23-26, 2020

“Planning interdisciplinary maths/science learning sequences for system impact”

“Exploring innovative pedagogies through interdisciplinary mathematics and science learning in the primary school”

“Multiple representations in student learning of optics: An interdisciplinary approach“

2019 Education Matters – Article

New pedagogies for interdisciplinary STEM

Russell Tytler of Deakin University sheds light on the direct teaching versus inquiry debate in the Science and Mathematics space.

“Current advocacy of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) represents a reform movement to increase engagement of students with the STEM disciplines, and to develop STEM skills that will prepare students for life in the 21st century. Such skills overlap with generic competencies that are increasingly represented in global curriculum framing (OECD – Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2018), such as complex and creative problem solving, critical thinking, design thinking, mathematical reasoning, interpersonal and collaborative skills, and trans-disciplinarity.”

Read the full article at Education Matters.

Visualisation and Spatial Thinking in Primary Students’ Understandings of Astronomy – Book Chapter

ESERA conference 2019

Tytler, R., White, P., & Mulligan, J. (accepted). Visualisation and spatial thinking in primary students’ understandings of Astronomy. In O. Levrini, G. Tasquier, T. Amin, L. Branchetti, & M. Levin (Eds.). Selected papers from the ESERA conference 2019. Springer.

2019 European Science Education Research Association (ESERA) Conference

ESERA conference, Bologna, Italy, 26 to 30 August 2019

Our paper “Use Of Visual Representations In Astronomy Education: Issues, Affordances And Research Perspectives” has been accepted for presentation at the 2019 ESERA Conference.

2019 Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia (MERGA) Conference

42nd MERGA Conference 2019, Perth, 30 June – 4 July 2019

“Interdisciplinary Mathematics and Science (IMS) Learning in the Primary School”

The Interdisciplinary Mathematics and Science (IMS) project* (https://imslearning.org/) is developing and investigating an approach to mathematics and science learning that implements learning sequences in which students’ invention and transformation of representational systems in the two subjects can support deeper learning in each. The guided inquiry pedagogy involves students in epistemic practices that approximate those in the discipline, such that concepts that sit at the intersection of the two disciplines (variation, sampling, symmetry, spatial reasoning) are approached from the distinct perspectives of each.

2019 Education Matters – Article

Russell Tytler talks to Education Matters about some of the recent innovations in the teaching and learning of STEM in the primary school years.

2019 Australasian Science Education Research Association (ASERA) Conference

50th annual ASERA Conference, Queenstown, New Zealand 2-5 July, 2019

Enriching Maths and Science Learning Through an Interdisciplinary Approach

There has been increasing interest in interdisciplinary as an approach to more deeply engage students, especially as part of advocacy of integrated STEM approaches. However, there are concerns that this integration can do violence to the distinctive ways of knowing and practising represented by the disciplines.