I did two presentations on geometry education this week. One at the BSRLM day conference and one seminar at Birkbeck, University of London.
Commencing in April 2016, Kotaro Komatsu (Shinshu University, Japan), who is currently a Visiting Fellow at Southampton Education School, and Keith Jones, began a research project entitled Proofs and Refutations in Dynamic Geometry Environments (PRinDGE). The project is funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. Following the work of mathematics philosopher Lakatos,…
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…
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,…
Good news! The Lifelab project has a new blog. LifeLab was first initiated in 2008 at the University of Southampton. It has continued to develop through the collaboration of researchers from the University’s Education School, Faculty of Medicine, and the Mathematics and Science Learning Centre. LifeLab draws on these researchers’ findings and combines them with research evidence from elsewhere to raise teenagers’ awareness and interest…
We are pleased to announce that Ruth Edwards has been awarded recognition as a Senior Fellow (UKSPF Descriptor 3) of the Higher Education Academy
Dr Bokhove delivered a session at Oxford University on the many forms of ‘instruction. Direct instruction is a hot topic in school, but discussions about it often end up with people talking past each other, as the term can mean several things. In this talk I will look at different ways of conceptualising ‘direct instruction’,…