Author Archives: MSHE

Dr Charis Voutsina’s paper disseminated at NCETM Summer ITT Conferences

In the recent NCETM Summer ITT Conferences, each delegate to series of one-day conferences for mathematics teacher educators from across England organised by the DFE-funded  NCETM (National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics) on the implications of the new National Curriculum for ITE was provided with a copy of Dr. Charis Voutsina’s recent […]

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Maths Outside

After last year’s successful Maths Outside day, this year we wanted to pay attention to this fabulous way to engage students with maths in their surroundings. This year a half day was dedicated to Maths Outside the classroom. The aims of the day were that trainees would experience outside maths tasks at first hand and […]

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Inquiry Based Science Education Training for Primary Teachers

Inquiry Based Science Education Training for Primary Teachers A series of training sessions is run by the Pri-Sci-Net Project in partnership with the Mathematics and Science Learning Centre, at the University of Southampton. The training is aimed at teachers and science coordinators and consists of three face-to-face sessions interspersed with two periods of classroom based science […]

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Raising mathematics achievement in local schools

Members of MaSE were pleased to be able to support secondary schools in the Southampton Local Authority with a revision day for year 11 pupils after the venue they had booked went into liquidation and left them high and dry. The day was targeted at supporting pupils on the C/D borderline and  was attended by all […]

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Southampton hosts BSRLM conference

The mathematics special interest group is hosting a conference for the British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics on Saturday 14th June, 2014. This conference is one of three one-day conferences per year with a programme of presentations on a wide variety of research in mathematics education. This event is equally suitable to mathematics teachers […]

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Gisela wins Sustainability Education Award

Gisela Cebrián Bernat, who has just completed her PhD under the supervision of Dr Marcus Grace and Professor Debra Humphris, has been awarded a University of Southampton Students’ Union ‘Sustainability Action Award’ (Runner-up in the ‘Outstanding Student Award’ category). Gisela’s doctoral research focused on the development of an organisational learning model to embed education for […]

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NCETM Secondary Magazine contribution

Keith Jones is co-authoring a series of articles for the NCETM Secondary Magazine. The latest article, the third in the series, is devoted to “Reasoning with decimals”. The article can be read online at: https://www.ncetm.org.uk/resources/8045  [to read the article, you need to be registered on the NCETM website; this is easy to do, just click […]

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