Date:  Friday 27th June 2025

Venue:  Moonee Valley Racing Club (Melbourne)

Cost: $299 per person (excl GST)

Enquiries: Email Carla at carla.lovemaths@gmail.com

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 across Victoria and South Australia. Her teaching career includes experience in primary classrooms, secondary mathematics, and teacher education at RMIT University. Her doctoral research focused on the development of multiplicative thinking, aiming to empower at-risk Middle Years students in numeracy. This research was part of the Scaffolding Numeracy in the Middle Years (SNMY) Research Project, an ARC Linkage collaboration with the Victorian and Tasmanian Departments of Education. Margarita has also contributed to the field as a co-author of the teacher text, Teaching Mathematics: Foundations to Middle Years. She is motivated by a love of problem-solving and a commitment to deep and meaningful student learning. Margarita is passionate about collaborating with teachers in schools and having deep conversations about effective practice to enhance student learning.