Members of MaSE led presentations and discussions at the recent European Science Education Research Association (ESERA) conference in Nicosia. All were well received. Andri Christodoulou gave a talk about the LifeLab ‘Meet the Scientist’ project which engages teenagers with scientists; Caro Garrett and Willeke Rietdijk summarised the of findings of the national Action Research in […]

We are pleased to announce that Ruth Edwards has been awarded recognition as a Senior Fellow (UKSPF Descriptor 3) of the Higher Education Academy

ZDM-International Journal on Mathematics Education just published its latest issue last week on a special theme: Textbook research in mathematics education. The issue was co-edited by Prof. Lianghuo Fan and Mr. Keith Jones of MaSE and Prof. Jianpan Wang, and Prof. Binyan Xu of East China Normal University.  A number of internationally leading researchers from […]

At this afternoon’s AGM of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (IGPME: see http://www.igpme.org/) Keith Jones of our centre was elected as a member of the International Committee to serve for a period of four years (until 2018).

The International Conference on Mathematics Textbook Research and Development 2014 (ICMT2014) will be held at the University of Southampton Date: 29-31 July 2014 Venue: University of Southampton, UK Conference Themes: •             Textbook research •             Textbook analysis and comparison •             Textbook development •             Textbook use by teachers •             Textbook use by students •             Task design for […]

A week ago I attended a seminar at the School of Education with visitors from Japan. They presented some of their work in geometric proofs in secondary education. One of the visitors was Yosuke Tsujiyama who talked about a co-authored paper (with Kotaro Komatsu) that is part of the proceedings of the 22nd ICMI study […]

On June 7th, 2013 Ruth Edwards and Christian Bokhove ran a “Mathematics outside the classroom” day with PGCE and SKE+ students. On this day students started with a fraction relay, went out do do some readymade outside maths activities, and then used these for inspiration for making their own trails. Every group made a four-node […]