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
The last session of our teacher professional development course for 2015-16 will take place on June 15th 2016 at Lifelab with Andri Christodoulou and Marcus Grace. This forms part of our activities with our Secondary Science PGCE teachers and it is part of the PARRISE project. In this session we will be joined by a group of pre-service science teachers from UCL-IOE…
Develop your understanding of mathematics beyond GCSE by joining our StA (start A-level) maths course. Mathematics is pervasive in life and this course will give you the opportunity to study the subject further and improve your understanding of some of the ways mathematical content is developed beyond GCSE level. Who is the course for? This…
Dr. Chris Downey and Dr. Christian Bokhove will present their paper ‘Mapping Changes in Support: A Longitudinal Analysis of Networks of Preservice Mathematics and Science Teachers’ at a symposium on the ‘Social side of teacher education’ at the AERA Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, 8-12 April 2016. A summary of the paper can be found…
ITV Meridian News visited Lifelab and talked to secondary school pupils taking part in our exciting teaching programme that aims to educate young people about how their lifestyle choices at an early age can drastically affect their health in the future and the health of their future children. The news story is part of the ITV Meridian’s…
Last weekend the University of Southampton hosted the first of this year’s series of Royal Institution mathematics masterclasses. are designed to encourage, inspire and engage young people in the art and practice of mathematics. The highly interactive sessions introduce students to aspects or applications of maths which may not usually be covered in the school curriculum,…
Our research centre had a strong contribution to this year’s annual ASE conference. Centre members Carys Hughes, Christian Bokhove and three Biology teachers presented work on the development of a Maths for Biology day course. The slides are here:
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.
This week Keith Jones is at the Weizmann Institute in Israel where he is presenting an invited keynote (see link below). Later in the week he makes an invited visit to the David Yellin Academic College of Education in Jerusalem where he is giving a research seminar. During his return journey to Southampton he is…
Dr Andri Christodoulou and Prof Marcus Grace have joined up with their PARRISE partners in the UK, Ruth Amos and Dr Ralph Levinson from UCL Institute of Education in organising a workshop at the forthcoming ASE conference at the University of Birmingham on 8th January 2016. This workshop for KS3 and KS4 science teachers looks…