Robert Hunting is an experienced education researcher and teacher with a focus on mathematics education. He has founded his own education publishing company, PALM-Ed, and created a popular YouTube video series on children's mathematics learning. He has held senior roles at several universities, leading large research projects and publishing numerous books and papers. His expertise includes curriculum development, research management, and innovative teaching methodologies.

1. Robert Hunting
81 Gresswell Road — Macleod, VIC 3085 — Phone: 0400550618 — E-Mail: robert@palm-ed.com
Summary
Senior education researcher and teacher with extensive experience in mathematics teacher training, and a specialist researcher
in children’s mathematics learning and curriculum. Founder and CEO of PALM-Ed, a company focused on electronic
publishing and consulting in mathematics education.
Strengths include success leading and managing complex projects to completion, supervising and mentoring junior researchers
and post-graduate students, high level skills negotiating and collaborating in multi-disciplinary and cross-institutional team
settings, conceptualizing solutions by innovating methodological tools, adapting to cross-cultural differences in research and
teaching environments, and a self-starter with capacity to achieve success with minimal supervision or direction.
Professional Experience
Director and CEO, PALM-Ed Pty Ltd (ACN 162 703 246) 2013-present
PALM-Ed was established initially as an e-publishing business focused on explaining the thinking processes of children learning
mathematics, using video examples as catalysts. Other PALM-Ed activities include consultancy and software development. PALM is an
acronym for Partnership for Advancing the Learning of Mathematics.
Creator, presenter, and producer of YouTube video series Inside Elementary Mathematics, launched May 2015 with 8 topics: Natural
Algorithms, Undoing It, Children’s Ideas About Numbers Before School, Sharing, Sharing and Division, Sharing and Fractions, Division
and Remainders, and The Genesis of Geometry (accessible at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL7mHk0yrpksmRbK2nB-45w).
Recent books include What Children Can Teach Adults About Mathematics, ISBN 978-0-9923053-0-7,
(https://itunes.apple.com/au/book/what-children-can-teach-adults/id677627336?mt=11) released October 2013, and The How and Why of
Teaching Elementary Mathematics ISBN 978-0-9923053-3-8 (https://itunes.apple.com/au/book/how-why-teaching-
elementary/id828327886?mt=11), released March 2014.
La Trobe University – Bendigo, Australia 2007-2013
Senior Lecturer in Mathematics Education
Responsible for coordinating and teaching undergraduate mathematics curriculum subjects, coordinating and mentoring
faculty research activity, team leader of cross-institutional research project investigating preschool practitioner’s views about
young children’s mathematics.
Achievements:
• Awarded $254 000 to lead a research team of 11 colleagues across 3 Australian States and New Zealand, with major
sponsorship by the National Centre of Science, ICT, and Mathematics Education in Rural and Regional Australia
(SiMERR), 2007-2008.
• Lead co-author of two books over the past 12 months:
Young children learning mathematics: A guide for educators and families. ACER Press, 2012.
Mathematical thinking of preschool children in rural and regional Australia: Research and practice. ACER Press, 2013.

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• Co-editor of special mathematics issue of the Journal for Australian Research in Early Childhood consisting of 9 scientific articles;
co-author of 4.
• Presenter of paper Student-student classroom discourse: Practices and consequences for mathematics classrooms in different countries, co-
authored with David J. Clarke, Li Hua Xu, and May E. V. Wan, as part of the symposium “Discursive Practice and
Knowledge Construction in Mathematics Classrooms in Widely Different Cultural Settings” at the Annual Meeting of the
American Educational Research Association, Vancouver, British Columbia, April 13-17th, 2012.
East Carolina University, Greenville NC 1996-2007
Professor of Mathematics Education
Responsible for mentoring junior faculty, coordinating development of a doctoral program in mathematics education, teaching
mathematics content and mathematics curriculum subjects to elementary, middle school, and high school teachers, at both
undergraduate and post-graduate levels, coordinator of the Mathematics Education group (comprising 9 tenured faculty
members, one visiting professor, one teacher-in-residence, and two contract lecturers), representing the Mathematics
Department in accreditation meetings for the Elementary and Middle Grades mathematics education programs,
advising undergraduate and graduate students, providing advice concerning Licensure and Certification requirements,
scheduling classes, conducting manpower and resource analyses for future needs of the group, and chairing regular group
meetings within the Mathematics Department.
Achievements:
• Contributed to design and accreditation of a new Masters program in mathematics education with specialisations for
elementary, middle school, and high school teachers.
• Established a cross-institutional research seminar series in mathematics education involving over 60 faculty members from
Universities across the North Carolina system using video conferencing.
• Conducted market research survey of US institutions who had established doctoral programs in mathematics education.
• Arranged for leading mathematics education researchers to consult on doctoral program needs and development.
• Co-author of invited chapter Organizing a new doctoral program in Mathematics Education in edited Conference Board of
the Mathematical Sciences book One Field, Many Paths: U. S. Doctoral Programs in Mathematics Education, 2001.
• Awarded $USD32 950 by The Spencer Foundation for a project called Part-Whole Number Knowledge in Preschool Children.
La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia 1986-1996
Lecturer and Senior Lecturer, Graduate School of Education
Responsible for establishing a cross-faculty research centre, coordinating the mathematics education component of the
Primary Graduate Diploma of Education program, teaching coursework subjects, and supervising thesis work of post-
graduate students.
Achievements:
• Awarded competitive large and small Australian Research Council grants to support research projects including rational
number learning, clinical assessment instruments, and scientific reasoning in adolescents.
• Foundation Director of the Institute of Mathematics Education, a research centre focused on solving problems of
learning and teaching mathematics.

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Designed and implemented a specialist Masters level coursework degree program in mathematics education for primary
teachers.
• Co-author (with G Davis and J Bigelow) of invited paper presented at the Research Symposium The Dynamics of
Rational Number Learning, Research Presession of the Annual Meeting of the National Council of Teachers of
Mathematics, Orlando Florida, April 1989: Some Remarks on the Homology and Dynamics of Rational Number Learning.
Positions Prior to 1986
1981-1986 West Australian Institute of Technology, Lecturer in Mathematics Education, School of Curriculum Studies.
1974-1981 Toorak State College, Victoria, Lecturer in Mathematics.
1966-1974 Education Department of Victoria, Australia, Permanent Teacher, Primary Division.
Professional Registration
Registered Teacher No. 338352, Victorian Institute of Teaching, 2009-present.
Education
Doctor of Education (University of Georgia, 1980)
Bachelor of Education (Monash University, 1976)
Bachelor of Arts (University of New England, 1972)
Trained Primary Teachers Certificate (Frankston Teachers’ College, 1967)
Skills Summary
• Author and publisher;
• Accomplished primary teacher, teacher educator, researcher and scholar;
• Leader of successful multi-disciplinary and cross-institutional research projects;
• Pioneer in developing teaching experiment research methodologies;
• Early adopter of computer- and web-based teaching tools;
• Ability to produce, review, and critique scientific and professional communications;
• Self-starter;
• Intrinsically motivated; and
• Disciplined in time management.
Interests
Driving and maintaining BMW E34 540i Manual Limited Edition, fundamental and technical aspects of trading equities
and options, grand-parenting.