Dr Ange's Blog

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...

This year I have spent hours and hours reading research to become better informed around the 'Science of Maths' and 'Science of Learning'.

At the heart of the 'Science of Maths/Learning' is a desire to provide the best conditions for our students to learn mathematics. Optimum maths instruction is s...

If I asked you to imagine an 'engaging' maths lesson what would you expect to see and hear?

For many years I believed that this would be the same for every teacher. 

Turns out this isn’t the case.

What your mind's eye pictures depends on how you define engagement.

I have been thinking about enga...

As a classroom teacher, every year I dreaded book week.

Not just because I have a deep jealousy of the fact we dedicate a week to enjoying and promoting a love of great literacy and nothing like this seems to happen for Numeracy...

No... it is a much more selfish reason.

I HATE dressing up!

I fi...