Last weekend the University of Southampton hosted the first of this year’s series of Royal Institution mathematics masterclasses.  are designed to encourage, inspire and engage young people in the art and practice of mathematics. The highly interactive sessions introduce students to aspects or applications of maths which may not usually be covered in the school curriculum, […]

Our research centre had a strong contribution to this year’s annual ASE conference. Centre members Carys Hughes, Christian Bokhove and three Biology teachers presented work on the development of a Maths for Biology day course. The slides are here:

 University of Southampton student Simon Alles (PGCE 2012-13) set a Guinness World record recently for the largest mathematical jigsaw. Simon and 500 students at the British School of Beijing recently completed a 3348 piece the Tarzia jigsaw, designed by Simon, as part of a Charity Marathon event.    

This week Keith Jones is at the Weizmann Institute in Israel where he is presenting an invited keynote (see link below). Later in the week he makes an invited visit to the David Yellin Academic College of Education in Jerusalem where he is giving a research seminar. During his return journey to Southampton he is […]

Dr Andri Christodoulou and Prof Marcus Grace have joined up with their PARRISE partners in the UK, Ruth Amos and Dr Ralph Levinson from UCL Institute of Education in organising a workshop at the forthcoming ASE conference at the University of Birmingham on 8th January 2016.  This workshop for KS3 and KS4 science teachers looks […]

Professor Lianghuo Fan, Head of Mathematics, Science and Health Education Research Centre, has recently been appointed by the Department of Education (DfE) to its planning and resources review group. According to Education Secretary Nicky Morgan, the group is part of the government’s action to address top three teacher workload issues, include marking, planning and resources, […]

Our research centre was pleased to host a visit by Dr Yusuke Shinno, Osaka Kyoiku University, Japan, accompanied by Dr Taro Fujita, University of Exeter, UK, on Tuesday 8 December. The visit provided an opportunity to discuss the research being carried out by Dr Shinno and Dr Fujita into learners’ difficulties with mathematical induction, a […]