Southampton Education School were pleased to welcome visitors from China on Tuesday 6th October 2015. Professor Shiqi Li from East China Normal University gave a seminar on “The Shanghai maths approach: An analysis based on a geometry lesson”. The seminar proved popular, with a good number of local teachers and research students attending. Professor Li […]

Keith Jones is in Tokyo, Japan, at the invitation of Shinshu University to co-run (with Nathalie Sinclair of Simon Fraser University, Canada) a workshop for new researchers in mathematics education. He then travels to Beijing to present a seminar at Beijing Normal University. (click to enlarge)

Our research centre is involved in the European MC Squared project. The MC Squared project (www.mc2-project.eu ) is developing a software platform to foster Creative Mathematical Thinking among students and teachers, and to provide creative industries, involved in the production of multimedia content for educational purposes, with new solutions. MC Squared is a three-year project, […]

Professor Lianghuo Fan, Head of Mathematics, Science and Health Education Research Centre, has recently given seven invited presentations in several major universities in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Brazil, including East China Normal University (Shanghai), Fudan University (Shanghai), Beijing Normal University, University of Hong Kong, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), and State University […]

Prof Marcus Grace and Dr Andri Christodoulou participated in the third Consortium meeting of the FP7-funded PARRISE project that took place between 15-17 June 2015 at Malmo University, Sweden. The aim of the project is to develop best practices of professional development programmes that promote Responsible Research and Innovation and Citizenship Education through Socio-Scientific Inquiry-based […]

Douglas Quadling, an outstanding mathematician and school teacher, was one of the four inspirational drivers behind the School Mathematics Project (SMP) in the 1960s and 70s. The School Mathematics Project, which radically changed the course of mathematics teaching in Britain and more widely, had its impetus at a meeting in a Winchester garden in September […]

Setting Up a Health Day for Trainee Teachers: A guide for course leaders We are delighted to let you know that the above publication which we launched at the PSHE/PHE conference, Healthy and effective learners: The contribution of Initial Teacher Education is now available (click on the image or here to access the pdf file). […]