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Our centre contributed to an Assessment Literacy training. Some thoughts for mathematics education in the slides below.

Our Mathematics, Science and Health Education research centre is a high quality, professional set of of enthusiastic people involved in research in mathematics, science and health education. We work together with practitioners and have strong links with teacher training. In these slides we introduce the research centre. If you have ideas for research, don’t hesitate…

Dr Bokhove will present a paper with results from analyses done for the enGasia project. The enGasia project was a British Academy funded project: In international comparisons for mathematics like PISA and TIMSS, Asia outperforms England considerably. For geometry this difference is even greater. With a new maths curriculum coming into play in England in…

The book seeks to broaden the scope of research on mathematical problem solving in different educational environments. A new book, co-edited by Keith Jones from Southampton Education School and entitled ‘Broadening the scope of research on mathematical problem solving‘ has just been published by Springer. The volume’s three major themes—technology, creativity, and affect—represent key issues that are…

Dr Bokhove was invited to do an inaugural talk for the new Asian Centre in Mathematics Education (ACME) at Shanghai’s East China Normal University. His slides can be found here. He also contributed to a panel discussion on ‘gifted education’ during the Third Chinese Congress in Mathematics Education (CCME). Slides, also translated in Chinese, are…

The Education Endowment Foundation has recently released a new Guidance Report on Improving Secondary Science. The report is written based on the feedback and input by an Advisory Panel consisting of experts in the field of science education, and an Evidence Review Group,  consisting of members of the Maths, Science and Health Education Research Centre,…

Dr Christian Bokhove appeared on BBC radio Solent on the 30th of August. It was in reaction to a new report by the Education Policy Institute (EPI) that assessed the state of the teacher labour market in England, and contained recommendations on how to especially get more maths and science teachers. You can here the contribution from…

On Thursday 14th June, 35 local and trainee mathematics teachers experienced what it was like to be a codebreaker for the afternoon. We were joined at the University by Tom Briggs, the Learning Manager at Bletchley Park. He took us through an engaging and informative session about the various types of cryptography ranging from Morse…

Dr Christian Bokhove has received some ESRC impact money to explore breathing new life in a new version of the School Mathematics Project. The School Mathematics Project was an iconic project from the 60s and later on by the University of Southampton. Recently the archive and copyright of these materials returned to our university. This…

Professor Lianghuo Fan, Director of Mathematics, Science and Health Education Research Centre, has recently published, as a co-editor, a research monograph entitled Research on Mathematics Textbooks and Teachers’ Resources: Advances and Issues, with Springer. The book is the result of an international collaboration based on the TSG38 of ICME-13, which was held in Hamburg, Germany in 2016. Besides Professor Fan, the other co-editors are…