2025 Love Maths Conference
Embracing Challenge, Building Connections & Sparking Creativity
Date: Friday 27th June 2025
Venue: Moonee Valley Racing Club (Melbourne)
Target Audience: Classroom teachers, learning specialists, leading teachers, assistant principals and principals working in school settings that cater to students from Foundation to Year 8
Cost: $299 per person (excl GST)
Enquiries: Email Carla at carla.lovemaths@gmail.com
Presenters
Graham Fletcher is based in Atlanta, Georgia and this will be his first time presenting in Australia. He has dedicated his career to supporting teachers and students in building a deep, conceptual understanding of elementary mathematics. With experience as a classroom teacher, math coach, and now math specialist, Graham continues to seek innovative ways to make math meaningful and accessible. Passionate about empowering educators and fostering curiosity in students, he strives to create tools and strategies that inspire learning. As the co-author of Building Fact Fluency, Graham equips teachers with practical approaches to deepen mathematical understanding. His resources are freely available at gfletchy.com.
Michael Minas has worked in education for over 25 years and his areas of interest include problem solving and student engagement. Michael’s YouTube channel features 100 videos of engaging maths games and has attracted over a million views from educators from across the globe. In 2018, Michael’s ability to shape learning was recognised when he won a CHOOSEMATHS Teaching Excellence Award. He presents at conferences around Australia and provides consultancy services to a range of organisations, including the Mathematical Association of Victoria and the Victorian Academy of Teaching and Leadership. Michael was the editor of Prime Number and is a contributing author for the Open Middle and Maths300 websites. He is also the author of Understanding and Teaching Primary Mathematics in Australia.
Margarita Breed is a numeracy consultant to schools in Victoria and South Australia. Prior to this she has been a primary teacher, secondary mathematics teacher and a lecturer in teacher education at RMIT University. Her doctoral research focused on multiplicative thinking and meeting the needs of at-risk Middle Years students in numeracy. This research was situated within the Scaffolding Numeracy in the Middle Years Research Project, an ARC Linkage project with the Victorian and the Tasmanian Departments of Education.
