New Resource​s ​
Assessing student learning in guided inquiry... now available for Members.

Welcome to IMPACT: Inquiry Maths Pedagogy in Action

This website aims to share ideas, resources, tips and personal experiences about inquiry pedagogy for teaching mathematics in the classroom. We invite all teachers and learners who are researchers and are interested in this approach, to build and become part of this inquiry culture.

Free access to Inquiry Units 

The Free Resources page has eight mathematical inquiry units available  ranging the three-part book series Thinking Through Mathematics.
Become a member and you will have access to four more units from each book. Enjoy!

A focus on evidence

See our Research blog to read about how to focus students on evidence in Guided Mathematical Inquiry: Can you make a one litre container out of paper?

Interested in assessment?

Available to Members now, find out about a NEW inquiry for Year 6 exploring positive and negative integers. Formative and summative assessment is also available - aligned with the Australian Curriculum: Mathematics. Also includes Our marking Guide for summative assessment.

Greater alignment with the Australian Curriculum

Favourite Books is an inquiry available in our Member Login section of this site. Alignment with the Australian Curriculum (Years 2, 3 and 4) is now available on our Research blog page.

Mathematical inquiry improves pedagogy over time
How can we solve messy problems in the mathematics classroom? Last year, Associate Professor Katie Makar presented how mathematical inquiry improves pedagogy over time at the STEM Teacher Symposium held in Brisbane. She described letting students wrestle with problems, just like the ones real professionals run into.

Become a member of the community

Complete a Resource Access Request for further access to IMPACT resources. We appreciate you taking the time to request access to our resources and this helps us build our Inquiry Maths community as well as track how widely our resources are used!

Getting started

  • Free downloadable copies of the 4D Guided Inquiry map and the Evidence Triangle are available on the Free Resources page. To print posters of different sizes, click on Resource Access Request and you will be able to download a range of posters of different sizes.
  • The authors of Thinking through mathematics: Engaging students with inquiry-based learning have made some of their inquiry unit plans freely available on the Free Resources page. These units can help you get started with mathematical inquiry in your own classroom.
  • See mathematical inquiry in action! On the Member Login page you are able to view videos illustrating teaching and learning in each phase of mathematical inquiry; Discover, Devise, Develop, Defend. There is also a video on Thinking Mathematically (AITSL Illustration of Practice, Apr 17, 2016) which was produced as part of this series.
  • Visit the Research page for papers relating to establishing social and mathematical norms in the classroom. Let's look at bubblegum and oranges illustrates establishing norms in one teacher's years 5-6 classroom, April Frizzle, over 2 different inquiries.