Justine Sakurai
Justine has extensive experience teaching in Victorian secondary schools, and more recently has been teaching in tertiary teacher education. She conducts professional development in numeracy and mathematics. She is deeply passionate about mathematics education being accessible for everyone, and for all students to have an opportunity to succeed.

Dave Tout
Dave Tout is an experienced numeracy and maths educator who is particularly interested in making maths relevant, interesting and fun for all students especially those students who are disengaged from mathematics. He has 50 years' educational experience, mainly in the VET sector, working in schools, TAFEs, community providers, universities and workplaces. Dave has written numerous teaching resources and numeracy and maths curriculum including for the VCE and VCAL (and its successor).

Megan Blanch
Megan is an experienced secondary mathematics and science teacher of over 12 years. She has worked in a range of education settings including Government, Independent and Catholic secondary schools as well as a support and development role with an educational software company. She has presented at numerous conferences including MAV, MASA and Primary Mathematics Teacher Conferences. She is passionate about making mathematics engaging, relevant and accessible for all students.

Mal Hand
Mal started teaching in 1975, and quickly found that she had a knack for engaging reluctant students with maths. She has taught maths in secondary schools, RTOs and TAFEs. Having taught VCAL since its inception, Mal is a committed advocate of applied learning and has presented many professional development sessions for the Victorian Applied Learning Association. She believes students can metaphorically fold up what they have learnt in her maths classes, put it in their pockets, and take it out into their real worlds.

Jim Spithill
Jim worked as a maths teacher for 30 years in schools across Melbourne and greatly enjoyed watching his students gain confidence with mathematics. He also served as President of MAV (The Mathematical Association of Victoria) during his teaching years. Jim joined the ACER as a test developer in 2010 and until his retirement in 2020 worked on a wide range of assessment.  He believes that good resources inform good teaching, which then enables improved student learning.

Pamela McGillivray
Pamela has been a Mathematics teacher for over 10 years, first in Western Australia, and now in Victoria. Prior to teaching, she worked in computers and computer operations before joining her partner in his consulting business. Pamela was responsible for the administration side of the company, as well as consulting with and developing software for clients. During this time she became involved in the Australian Quality movement, and spent some time as a volunteer Quality Award Evaluator, evaluating organisations all over Australia.