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Problemo is available to all Australian and New Zealand primary and secondary teachers from government, private, Catholic, independent schools and registered home schools

Approved coaching clinics are also welcome to subscribe.

Parents and students can access the Student Portal without registering.

Problemo subscriptions are only available to teachers in schools or coaching clinics. If you think teachers at your child’s school or coaching clinic may be interested in using Problemo, let us know here or direct them to this website (problemo.edu.au).

Problemo Student is a free problem-solving resource for parents and students is that allows students to test their skills in mathematics and informatics. It’s packed with problems covering a range of topics and year levels. No registration or login needed – parents and students can jump in anytime and try one question or work their way through a series based on a topic.

First up, try searching for your school or coaching clinic and leave the suburb dropdown field blank. If you still can’t find your school or coaching clinic, email us at info@problemo.edu.au and we will add you to the list.

Problemo is go-to maths problem solving resource for teachers with a library of maths problems for years 3-10.

Each problem is classified for ease of searching, aligned to the Australian Curriculum, and complete with enabling and extending prompts and solutions.  Teachers can easily download PDFs of problems, display them digitally for classroom use, and create online quizzes for students, with results displaying in the teacher platform. Problemo provides detailed Lesson Cards and allows teachers to create their own.

The Australian Maths Trust (AMT) creates the maths problems in Problemo. They are prepared by the same mathematicians and teachers that design the highly regarded Australian Mathematics Competition: these problems may have featured in past competitions.

The Australian Maths Trust has been developing world-class maths problems for more than 40 years. We are best known for the internationally recognised Australian Mathematics Competition.

We are a not-for-profit, with headquarters in Canberra, Australia. Our teams of volunteer mathematicians and teachers (from across Australia and the region) work together to create rich mathematical and algorithmic thinking problems for our competitions and programs each year.

Our vision is to develop a nation of creative problem solvers, and we believe maths is the most effective way to get students there.

Find out more about us.

A team of maths teachers analyses each Problemo problem selected and classifies each by the Australian Curriculum content strands for mathematics: Number and Algebra, Measurement and Geometry, Statistics and Probability. We use our own classification for the Computation and Algorithms strand.

Many problems naturally sit across multiple content strands, which highlights the interconnectedness of the curriculum and the rich variety of strategies available to problem solvers. For example, you may notice that a problem for years 5-6 is linked to ACARA codes for years 3-4 or 7-8.

This recognises that the curriculum is cumulative and that students within the same year group are often working at a variety of levels. Additional strategies for the same problem become available as students gain exposure to more sophisticated mathematical tools.

ACARA codes are not intended as a list of prerequisite skills or an exhaustive list of related concepts—your judgement as a teacher about how and when to engage with a problem is equally important.

Problemo is suitable for both. With detailed workings for each problem, it helps build maths confidence in teachers of students from years 3 through to 10.

Not all teachers feel confident teaching maths problem solving. We know that many teachers in secondary schools are working out-of-field and may have had limited training in maths. Problemo is about giving you the confidence to have fun and learn with your students. Problem has fully worked solutions for all our problems, and detailed Problemo Lesson Cards provide a step-by-step guide to problem solving with a scaffolded approach.

Planning

When planning learning experiences, you can use Problemo to identify suitable maths problems for engaging your students. Problemo has powerful search and filter tools to allow you to quickly find maths problems that relate to the content you’re teaching. You can organise problems using your My Favourite Problems list or by adding them to My Sets & Quizzes, ready for teaching.

Problemo Plus users can set up student classes/groups and assign quizzes to these students to allow you to track performance over time.

Teaching

You can use Problemo live in your classroom. The Display Problem feature allows you to show problems to students using a SMART board or projector. This is ideal when working with a whole class or in small groups.

You can also print problems so students can work directly on printouts in the classroom, either individually or in small groups. Problemo allows you to select the information you would like to include. For example, you might want to include enabling prompts but exclude multiple-choice answers.

If your students have access to a device, in class or at home, use the My Sets & Quizzes feature to turn your problem set into an interactive experience.

Our Problemo Lesson Cards are planned around a particular problem and include scaffolded content to engage students at all levels. 

Assessing

Problemo’s online quiz feature gives you real-time feedback as your students work through the problems. Use Practice mode for formative assessment or Quiz mode for a summative assessment of students’ progress.