Ann Baker and John Baker - Authors of Natural Maths Strategies
As well as authoring a range of materials, Ann and Johnny run workshops, in-school training and school-based thinking competitions.
Ann Baker is an educational consultant with a background in maths and literacy education. She specialises in working with teachers to maximise the potential of the children they teach in areas such as numeracy, literacy and thinking skills. During her varied career, she has lectured in literacy at Griffith University (Gold Coast), been an adviser for Gifted and Talented Education with Education Queensland and a researcher at London University and the Open University (UK). She is a member of the Multi-age Association. Ann's qualifications include a Bachelor of Philosophy (post-graduate) degree in which she researched the role of real problem solving in mathematics education and a Post-graduate Diploma in Reading Development. Both these awards were made while Ann was working as a research fellow at the Open University.
John Baker is a maths consultant with a background in education. As well as consulting to business and Universities in the fields of maths and computing, he is co-author with Ann of the many books that are published by Natural Maths. John's first degree was in pure mathematics, from the University of London, where amongst other subjects, he studied mechanics under Professor Herman Bondi. This interest in mechanics led him later to complete a Doctor on Information Technology degree at Bond University, where he shed new light on "The mechanics of a preferred golf swing". He has been Mathematician in Residence at Kimberley College, Carbrook, where he taught mathematics to the Grade 11 and 12 students.
Their home in the Gold Coast Hinterland houses their twin sons, Eddie and Richard, a cat, and plenty of other wildlife that inhabit their garden.
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