Welcome to CRiMSE

Director: A/Prof Michael Mitchelmore

Associate Director: A/Prof Joanne Mulligan

The mission of the Centre for Research in Mathematics and Science Education (CRiMSE) is, through research and its applications, to provide leadership in the enhancement of the learning and teaching of mathematics and science.

CRiMSE aims to fulfil its mission by

• carrying out basic and applied research on how students learn
• applying research findings in the local and national community
• developing and supporting a community of researchers and research students
• actively supporting quality learning and teaching

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Latest news

• Staff have recently published a preservice mathematics textbook, a series of secondary maths workbooks and an early childhood pattern book.
• Michael Cavanagh has received a Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning from the Australian Learning and Teaching Council.
• Leigh Wood has been appointed to the Education Committee of the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute.
• Kate Highfield recently spoke at a session called Towards the Education Revolution at the annual conference of the Australian Council of Deans of Education.
• Mike Mitchelmore recently visited Jere Confrey and Rich Lehrer in the USA to learn about their projects that are developing early mathematics learning trajetories.
• Joanne Mulligan has been invited to present a paper to an international conference at the Erricson Early Childhood Institute, Chicago, in April 2009.