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.
An article “Distinguishing Nature of Science Beliefs, Knowledge and Understandings” authored by Richard Brock and MSHE colleague Wonyong Park has been published in the journal Science & Ecuation. Whilst teaching about the nature of science (NOS) is a significant goal of science education, there remains debate about specifying the NOS and appropriate pedagogies and approaches…
Dr. Christian Bokhove delivered a session at researchEd maths and science at Oxford University on how skills and understanding in mathematics go hand in hand. https://twitter.com/MrBenWard/status/741645868957376512
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…
Southampton Education School had a strong presence at the European Science Education Research Association (ESERA) conference in Denmark at the end of August. Most of the science education branch of the Maths & Science Education (MaSE) research centre attended, including three of our doctoral researchers, contributing to a vibrant programme of talks and discussions. With…
Dr Christian Bokhove has published a new article “Country and school family composition’s effects on mathematics achievement” with Professor Gillian Hampden-Thompson from from the University of Sussex: Family structures are associated with achievement outcomes, but the percentage of children residing in different family structures has changed over time. In this paper, we revisit data from…
Three science education researchers from the Mathematics and Science Education Centre (MaSE) at Southampton Education School, Dr Wonyong Park, Dr Andri Christodoulou and Dr Neta Shaby, attended the European Science Education Research Association (ESERA) meeting in Cappadocia, Turkey, from 28 August to 1 September. Dr Wonyong Park co-chaired a symposium on ‘Connecting Disaster and Risk…