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  • Mentoring mathematics teachers

    Mentoring mathematics teachers – Supporting and Inspiring Pre-Service and Newly Qualified Teachers. Just published by Routledge is this new book edited by Rosalyn Hyde and Julie-Ann Edwards from the Mathematics and Science Research Centre in the Southampton Education School. Designed to support both teachers and university-based tutors in mentoring primary and secondary pre-service and beginning…

  • M@SE presence at ESERA

    Members of MaSE led presentations and discussions at the recent European Science Education Research Association (ESERA) conference in Nicosia. All were well received. Andri Christodoulou gave a talk about the LifeLab ‘Meet the Scientist’ project which engages teenagers with scientists; Caro Garrett and Willeke Rietdijk summarised the of findings of the national Action Research in…

  • ZDM special issue on maths textbooks

    ZDM-International Journal on Mathematics Education just published its latest issue last week on a special theme: Textbook research in mathematics education. The issue was co-edited by Prof. Lianghuo Fan and Mr. Keith Jones of MaSE and Prof. Jianpan Wang, and Prof. Binyan Xu of East China Normal University.  A number of internationally leading researchers from…

  • Pre-announcement for ICMT2014

    The International Conference on Mathematics Textbook Research and Development 2014 (ICMT2014) will be held at the University of Southampton Date: 29-31 July 2014 Venue: University of Southampton, UK Conference Themes: •             Textbook research •             Textbook analysis and comparison •             Textbook development •             Textbook use by teachers •             Textbook use by students •             Task design for…

  • Maths Outside the Classroom

    On June 7th, 2013 Ruth Edwards and Christian Bokhove ran a “Mathematics outside the classroom” day with PGCE and SKE+ students. On this day students started with a fraction relay, went out do do some readymade outside maths activities, and then used these for inspiration for making their own trails. Every group made a four-node…