These are the slides of the presentation “Opportunity to learn secondary maths: A curriculum approach with TIMSS 2011 data” Dr. Christian Bokhove gave at the BSRLM day conference on 7 November 2015 at the University of Reading.
Professor Christian Bokhove (MaSE, Southampton Education School) and Dr Edward Redhead (School of Psychology) have published a new article “Building digital cube houses to improve mental rotation skills”. Prior research indicates that spatial skills, such as mental rotation skills (MRS), are a strong predictor for mathematics achievement, while other studies have also shown that MRS…
In Spring 2022 we conducted the ‘Mathematics in Transit’ 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 ‘proof’. This booklet…
Colleagues from our centre, together with many other colleagues, have published their findings from a health literacy Randomized Controlled Trial in PlosOne. The abstract: Adolescence offers a window of opportunity during which improvements in health behaviours could benefit long-term health, and enable preparation for parenthood—albeit a long way off, passing on good health prospects to…
Several members of our centre contributed to the one-every-four-year premier international maths education conference ICME-13. Bokhove, Christian University of Southampton, United Kingdom HANDWRITING RECOGNITION SOFTWARE AND STUDENTS’ ONLINE COLLABORATIVE LEARNING EXPERIENCE IN ALGEBRA STUDIES OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN MATHS: A CURRICULUM APPROACH WITH TIMSS 2011 DATA Presenter EXPLORING AND MAKING ONLINE CREATIVE DIGITAL MATHS BOOKS FOR…
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…
Pupils from Southampton secondary schools will be able to discover how their diets and lifestyles lay the foundations for a healthier life … thanks to a grant awarded to Dr Kath Woods-Townsend and the LifeLab team from the University of Southampton’s Student Centeredness Fund. The award of £30,000 over three years will enable all Year 9 students (13-14…