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Latest News
May 10, 2023
Posted By : Christian Bokhove New paper on the creative process of designing digital mathematics books
New work by Professor Christian Bokhove and colleagues has been published. In the article “Using Social Network Analysis to gain insight into social creativity while designing digital mathematics books” they explain how Social Network Analysis can provide insight into the social creativity process of designers working together on digital mathematics books. Analysing the processes and […]
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April 24, 2023
Posted By : Christian Bokhove Dr Neta Shaby and Dr Ran Peleg presented at NARST conference in Chicago, USA, with various international colleagues
NARST is a global organization for improving science teaching and learning through research. In this symposium titled: âOnce upon a time⌠The use of narratives in informal learning environmentsâ, colleagues presented five studies examining narratives in the context of STEM learning in informal settings: science museum, zoo, virtual exhibition, escape room, and home-based engineering activities. […]
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April 18, 2023
Posted By : Antri Christodoulou Growing Wild Citizens @ school – February update
Over February, our Growing Wild Citizens @ school project has been working with Year 5 and Year 3 children on preparing to grown food outdoors within their school grounds. Activities started with the children planting many indoor winter vegetables in both schools in 8 mini greenhouses, such as: Beetroot Radish Coriander lemon Sugar snap peas […]
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March 30, 2023
Posted By : MSHE Learning mathematics with LEAN – event
Are you interested in teaching mathematics using Lean? Would you like to learn more about Lean and how it has been used in undergraduate teaching? Join us online for our 2nd Event on “Learning Mathematics with Lean” on 18-19-20th April 2023, times: 14:00-17:00 (GMT). For more details and to register check out our website.
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March 27, 2023
Posted By : Christian Bokhove Professor Bokhove at AERA annual meeting
In April Professor Christian Bokhove is presenting two new papers at the annual meeting of the AERA. One paper is about the relationship between non-cognitive outcomes and science, mathematics and reading achievement, based on PISA data, and a collaboration with Dr Jenny Byrne and Dr Andri Christodoulou. The second paper looks at the predictive value […]
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February 2, 2023
Posted By : MSHE Science and Maths for All event
Last week, we had a Mathematics, Science and health Education Research Centre (MSHE) event for MSc students. During this event students were given the opportunity to engage in activities, discuss mathematics and science education research; and meet members of the Mathematics Science and Health Education (MSHE) Centre at Southampton Education School. The talks and activities included: […]
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January 19, 2023
Posted By : Christian Bokhove New work on Chinese primary mathematics classrooms
Southampton Education School alumnus Dr Zhenzhen Miao, Professor Christian Bokhove, Professor David Reynolds, and Professor Charalambos Y. Charalambous, have published “Rational numbers and proportional reasoning in Chinese primary schools: Patterns, latent classes, and reasoning processes” in the Asian Journal for Mathematics Education. https://doi.org/10.1177/27527263221143802 Abstract: Rational numbers and proportional reasoning are challenging topics in school mathematics. […]
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December 13, 2022
Posted By : Antri Christodoulou Interactive SMP – new funded project in secondary mathematics
Dr Ben Davies has secured funding for developing an interactive version of the School Mathematics Textbook materials. Interactive SMP Â focuses on developing online interactive workbooks for secondary school mathematics. These workbooks will be adaptations of the existing SMP archive and are a collaboration between the Southampton Education School, Department of Mathematics, and 10+ secondary school […]
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September 28, 2022
Posted By : MSHE Brock and Park on the nature of science
An article “Distinguishing Nature of Science Beliefs, Knowledge and Understandings” authored by Richard Brock and MSHE colleague Wonyong Park has been published in the journal Science & Ecuation. Whilst teaching about the nature of science (NOS) is a significant goal of science education, there remains debate about specifying the NOS and appropriate pedagogies and approaches […]
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August 25, 2022
Posted By : MSHE Thinking about Proof booklet published
In Spring 2022 we conducted the âMathematics in Transitâ project. In this project a team of teachers and researchers from post-16 schools, the Southampton Education School and the School of Mathematics, explored curriculum materials to find the topic that would be most helped with a supporting booklet. The most useful topic was âproofâ. This booklet […]
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