Dec 14, 2008
Some people find mathematics perplexing, whilst others find it
beautiful. This week on the podcast, I spoke to two young men
professionally employed to communicate mathematics to
school-children around the country. Both these guys have a long
history in science communication - I got to be good friends with
them back in my science circus
days.
Jamos McAlester travels
Australia with Tenix Questacon Maths
Squad, which is an outreach program of Questacon – The National Science and
Technology Centre. Marcus
Finlay is a proactive, scientifically inclined, primary
school teacher from Melbourne. As opposed to most teachers, Marcus
inspires his students about science and maths rather than running
away from the topics, and lists his class's attempts to build model
tsunamis in the classroom as his science highlight of 2008.
I spoke to Marcus and Jamos from The Mathematical
Association of Victoria's annual conference, both were giving
key-note addresses on the communication of mathematics.