An Indigenous maths toolkit
Maths that means something, where it matters most.
Maths That Matters is a curriculum-aligned toolkit that brings mathematics to life for remote Australian classrooms, built around the real missions, roles, and problems students already know.
What is in the toolkit
- missions, each with a teacher plan
- 11
- maths strands across the missions
- 6
- documents, each as PDF and Word
- 22
- to download and to adapt
- Free
The Problem
Students in remote communities are often taught maths through examples that don't reflect their world (city traffic problems, supermarket scenarios, contexts with no local relevance). The curriculum doesn't change. The distance between the student and the problem does.
Teachers in these classrooms are frequently stretched across multiple year levels, working with limited resourcing, and without materials designed for the context they're actually teaching in.
The Solution
Maths That Matters closes that gap, not by replacing the Australian curriculum, but by re-grounding it. Every mission is built strand-first: the mathematics comes from the curriculum, and the context comes from real roles and real problems relevant to remote community life.
Pick your mission.
Every mission gives a student a real role and a genuine decision to make. Open any one to see the full teacher plan.
- 01Number & Algebra50 min
Growing Patterns
You are the Pattern Tracker - 02Number & Measurement50 min
Water Guardians
You are the Junior Water Monitor - 03Number45 min
Grand Final Day
You are the Trip Organiser - 04Number45 min
School Kitchen Stocktake
You are the Kitchen Helper - 05Number50 min
Art Centre Market Day
You are the Art Centre Enterprise Manager - 06Number & Pattern45 min
Reading the Seasons
You are the Community Planner - 07Measurement55 min
Junior Ranger: Land Care Patrol
You are the Junior Ranger - 08Number55 min
Fishing Quota Challenge
You are the Fisheries Ranger - 09Number60 min
Power Planner
You are the Energy Planner - 10Statistics60 min
Training Day Attendance
You are the Team Wellbeing Officer - 11Number60 min
Community Tour Enterprise
You are the Tour Enterprise Manager
Who It Serves
Built for teachers and students in remote Australian schools, particularly those without easy access to contextualised, curriculum-ready resources. If you're teaching maths and looking for material that feels real to your students, this is for you.
Strands covered
- Number & Algebra1 missions
- Number & Measurement1 missions
- Number6 missions
- Number & Pattern1 missions
- Measurement1 missions
- Statistics1 missions
See the 11 Missions
Each one is a role, a decision, and a maths strand. Open any of them and the full teacher plan is right there.