Publications
Interdisciplinary Maths and Science Publications
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.
Read More…ASERA 52 – 2021 Conference
ASERA 52 CONFERENCE 2021
2021 Australasian Science Education Research Association (ASERA) Conference presentation linking science and mathematics productively within an interdisciplinary Primary Education context.
Read More…2021 International Congress on Mathematical Education (ICME) Conference
ICME 14 2021 Shanghai, China
Young students learning the mathematics of measurement through an interdisciplinary approach
Peta White1, Russell Tytler1, Joanne Mulligan2, Melinda Kirk1
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’.
Download presentation (coming soon)
Read More…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
Read More…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“
Read More…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.
Read More…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.
Read More…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.
Read More…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.
Read More…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.
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