Dr Ange's Blog

My PhD research into place value identified the need to focus our teaching around six key aspects (you can read more about this here): Count, Calculate, Compare/Order, Make/Represent, Name/Record and Rename.

While each aspect is important, for me, the most critical is renaming.

When I work with te...

If you have been following my work over the past few years, you will know that my PhD research focused on the assessment and teaching of whole number place value.
Part of this work has been, and continues to be, helping teachers to develop a deep understanding of their student’s knowledge of whole nu...

During Term One I have been doing some personal reflection. One truth in life is that each day only has 24 hours! As my children get older, their lives are becoming busier. My eldest daughter is starting part-time work (!) and driving her to her first shift made me realise how fast little ones grow ...

Having spent so much time thinking about, teaching and researching place value, I am often using the term 'Base 10'. In this blog I wanted to unpack what we mean when we refer to a 'Base 10' place value system. 

We use a Base 10 place value system to represent quantities. This base was likely chose...

Earlier this year Taylor Swift 'mania' hit Australia as she brought her ‘Eras’ tour to stadiums across our country. I am not really a big ‘music’ person. I don't listen to much music except when I'm driving the family around in the car. I don’t have a Spotify list, and don't ever choose to have musi...

When I was younger I played a lot of tennis. From the age of 7 to 16, along with basketball, it was the sport I spent most time playing. While I loved playing tennis, looking back, all I seem to remember was a lot of politics, sitting around waiting to play and very early Saturday and Sunday morning...

An important part of my mentoring work within the Numeracy Teachers Academy is answering member questions. One of the most common questions I am asked (particularly at the start of the year) is ‘"which online programs do you recommend?”.

The simple answer is: “I don’t like to recommend any”.

Up un...

On the holidays we welcomed five birds into our family.

This was a big moment for the Rogers clan, as we had previously been a 'pet free' family.

I don't have anything against pets, it's just since birthing humans, I feel like they have taken up all of my feeding/caring/cleaning up after/worrying ...

I am often asked about commas!

It may seem a strange thing to be asked about (in the maths field), but it is related to the writing of numerals.

If you were asked to write the numeral 1 million, two hundred thousand and seventy, would you use commas?

Would it look like this: 1,200,070?

or this 1...

On the holidays my family and I travelled to the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. It is a truly stunning part of Australia. I highly recommend visiting if you haven't already!

We are a very ‘outdoorsy’ family, so every day we were either at the beach catching waves, or on extended scenic walks.

One...

Last year ClickView invited me to create a series of short videos to support teachers in their maths instruction.

If you haven’t heard of ClickView it is an online teaching platform that has educational videos and resources that cover all areas of the curriculum. It is used by over 4500 schools in ...

If you have been reading my emails and blogs over the past couple of years you will know that one of my great passions is bringing maths education research and practice closer together. Sometimes I feel they are living in completely separate worlds! There is the research world. Then there is the tea...