We have a good presence of MSHE members at the BSRLM conference in London on 4 March 2017, with several of our members presenting their work. Chronoula Voutsina, along with Keith Jones and research student Lois George, are reporting on changes in children’s mathematical task and strategy conceptualisation using microgenetic research designs. Chronoula’s latest publication […]

During last week, MSHE member Keith Jones was at Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany, for a research planning meeting, and then at Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany, to present an invited research seminar. For the meeting in Frankfurt to plan a bid for EU funding, Keith joined with colleagues from Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, […]

Professor Lianghuo Fan, Head of the Mathematics, Science and Health Education Research Centre, has recently delivered a keynote speech at the Second Chinese Conference on Mathematics Education (CCME-2), which was held from 26-28 Oct 2016 in Chongqing, China. CCMEs is a newly launched high-level academic conference series for Chinese mathematics educators in both greater China […]

We have a good presence of MSHE members at the BSRLM conference in Brighton on 12 November 2016 when three of our members present their work. Christian Bokhove is involved in presenting two papers, one on training mental rotation skills to improve spatial ability and the other on designing creative electronic books for mathematical creativity. […]

Mathematics teacher, and University of Southampton alumnus, William Emeny, picked up a top honour at the 2016 Pearson Teaching Awards. He was winner of the award for Teacher of the Year in a Secondary School.  William completed his mathematics PGCE at the University of Southampton in 2009-10. The ceremony was broadcast on BBC2 TV on […]

Dr. Christian Bokhove just published a new chapter in the book Digital Technologies in Designing Mathematics Education Tasks This chapter describes a digital intervention for algebraic expertise that was built on three principles, crises, feedback and fading, as described by Bokhove and Drijvers (Technology, Knowledge and Learning. 7(1–2), 43–59, 2012b). The principles are retrospectively scrutinized […]

To mark World Teachers’ Day (on October 5), the publisher Springer is offering free open access to a selection of journals and book chapters and has chosen to include the recent special double-issue of the Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education on the topic of “Mathematics Teachers as Partners in Task Design” published earlier this year. […]