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…
Dr Zhenzhen Miao, Assistant Professor in Mathematics Education at Jiangxi Normal University, China with a PhD from our School, MaSE’s Professor Christian Bokhove and former SEdS professor David Reynolds, have collaborated more than five years on the MasterMT project. A book with the findings has just been released. You can find it here. This practical…
Dr Charis Voutsina and Dr Athina Thoma from MaSE attended and presented their work at the 13th Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education (CERME 13). Charis presented her work with Dr Debbie Scott focusing on “Analysing children’s awareness of the cultural rules of numerals in the world around them” from their…
New work by Professor Christian Bokhove and colleagues has been published. In the article “Using Social Network Analysis to gain insight into social creativity while designing digital mathematics books” they explain how Social Network Analysis can provide insight into the social creativity process of designers working together on digital mathematics books. Article abstract:…
| Dr Neta Shaby and Dr Ran Peleg presented at NARST conference NARST is a global organization for improving science teaching and learning through research. In this symposium titled: “Once upon a time… The use of narratives in informal learning environments”, colleagues presented five studies examining narratives in the context of STEM learning…
Over February, our Growing Wild Citizens @ school project has been working with Year 5 and Year 3 children on preparing to grown food outdoors within their school grounds. Activities started with the children planting many indoor winter vegetables in both schools in 8 mini greenhouses, such as: Beetroot Radish Coriander lemon Sugar snap…
Are you interested in teaching mathematics using Lean? Would you like to learn more about Lean and how it has been used in undergraduate teaching? Join us online for our 2nd Event on “Learning Mathematics with Lean” on 18-19-20th April 2023, times: 14:00-17:00 (GMT). For more details and to register check out our website.
In April Professor Christian Bokhove is presenting two new papers at the annual meeting of the AERA. One paper is about the relationship between non-cognitive outcomes and science, mathematics and reading achievement, based on PISA data, and a collaboration with Dr Jenny Byrne and Dr Andri Christodoulou. The second paper looks at the predictive value…
Last week, we had a Mathematics, Science and health Education Research Centre (MSHE) event for MSc students. During this event students were given the opportunity to engage in activities, discuss mathematics and science education research; and meet members of the Mathematics Science and Health Education (MSHE) Centre at Southampton Education School. The talks and activities included:…
Southampton Education School alumnus Dr Zhenzhen Miao, Professor Christian Bokhove, Professor David Reynolds, and Professor Charalambos Y. Charalambous, have published “Rational numbers and proportional reasoning in Chinese primary schools: Patterns, latent classes, and reasoning processes” in the Asian Journal for Mathematics Education. https://doi.org/10.1177/27527263221143802 Abstract: Rational numbers and proportional reasoning are challenging topics in school mathematics….