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.
