Rachael Whitney-Smith

Rachael is the Australian Curriculum: Mathematics specialist at ACARA. She is also undertaking her PhD at Notre Dame University in Mathematics Education. Rachael is passionate about applied mathematics, STEM and teaching mathematics through rich tasks that engage student thinking and reasoning, problem solving, investigation, computational thinking, modelling and inquiry processes. Rachael has worked on National and International projects focussed on improving the mathematical outcomes of Australian students and has actively participated in the OECD Education 2030 project through her role at ACARA. Rachael is an active member on a number of mathematics advisory and reference groups and led the work in revising the National Numeracy Learning Progressions Version 3 as part of the National Online Formative Assessment Initiative. Rachael has been the Executive Officer, Professional Learning consultant and is currently a board member for the Mathematical Association of Western Australia and worked on a number of AAMT projects such as AMSPP: Science Mentorship Project, ReSolve, TEMPEST and the Growing Mathematically Project.