About Creative Maths
Creative Maths is a social enterprise aiming to have a positive and measurable impact on teaching and learning mathematics and statistics.
To have the greatest social impact we encourage others to support and partner with us.
Creative Maths
Creative Maths supports learning and teaching statistics and mathematics. Creative Maths develops and provides learning and teaching resources for schools and university-level learners. Our resources include videos, our award-winning Dragonistics data cards, online learning, and other physical classroom resources. We also provide professional learning development for teachers and run events for learners.
Creative Maths is a social enterprise that aims to:
- Empower all teachers to teach statistics,
- Help students at all levels to learn statistics and mathematics, fostering excitement and discovery,
- Make statistics accessible to all, so that people may become better informed citizens of the world,
- Give families fun and educational activities, and
- Educate citizens about important things.
Creative Maths started producing high quality video and other resources in 2011 and has been helping students learn statistics all over the world ever since.
Put simply, being a social enterprise means profits are reinvested to allow us to develop additional resources and run activities for learners.
Our Impact
Creative Maths is a social enterprise that aims to have a positive and measurable impact on teaching, learning and educating citizens in mathematics and statistics.
About Nic
Nicola Petty (aka Dr Nic)
Dr Nicola Petty is an expert in teaching and learning statistics and operations research. She spent the past 25 years developing online and physical learning resources for primary, secondary and university students. Nicola is a qualified high school mathematics teacher with additional experience teaching innovative primary school mathematics lessons. She has 20 years experience teaching statistics and operations research in innovative ways at the University of Canterbury. This work earned her a university teaching award.
Nicola wrote and developed the 50+ Statistics Learning Centre videos for learning statistics and using mathematics and statistics resources for teaching. She writes a well-respected statistics learning and teaching blog.
Nicola has a strong network with school mathematics teachers and education professionals. Her enthusiasm and charisma make her the obvious choice as front-person for Statistics Learning Centre.
About Shane
Dr Shane Dye has 20 years of experience lecturing operations research and supervising PhD students at the University of Canterbury and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Shane has spent the past 15 years developing online and physical learning resources for primary, secondary and university students. He has expertise in the New Zealand mathematics curriculum and experience running lessons and activities for primary and intermediate school students.
Shane has programming and technical skills developed over many years while researching decision-making under uncertainty for power generation, water resource planning and telecom.He develops and maintains the Statistics Learning Centre IT systems and acts as the technical help-desk support.
How to Support Us
Support us by purchasing our resources and games or by donating to support the free resources we provide (videos, Dr Nic's blog, teaching resources).
Businesses and Other Organisations
Partner with us to bring Rich Maths events to schools.
- Directly help a local school or support schools that will benefit the most.
The cost for a 90 minute session is $300 for around 30 children or $450 for around 60 plus travel costs. Talk to us for more detailed costing for a group of schools.
Partner with us to create more Statistics Learning Centre “Dr Nic” videos.
- Our YouTube channel attracts about one million views each year. Each video costs around $2000 to develop. Talk to us how how your sponsorship could benefit your business and hundreds of thousands of learners worldwide.
Media and Feedback
Education Gazette
Nov 2016
Jaylan Boyle interviewed Dr Nic about Statistics Learning Centre. The article first appeared in New Zealand Science Teacher and then in the education supplement to the November 21, 2016 issue of New Zealand Education Gazette.
Feedback
Our Sponsors and Supporters
Creative Maths has received support and sponsorship from the following organisations.
Unlocking Curious Minds funded our Rich Maths events in 2017. We visited 30 rural schools in Canterbury and the West Coast engaging children in mathematics and encouraging teachers.
Ākina Foundation has provided training and continue to support our social enterprise.
Contact Us
You can contact Creative Maths by email to: info@statslc.com
You can call Dr Nic directly on: 0276987392 (NZ)
Or, Shane at the Helpdesk on: 0212683529 (NZ)
Our postal address is:
Creative Maths
PO Box 21-390
Edgeware
Christchurch 8143
New Zealand