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For the British Academy  enGasia project, Dr. Christian Bokhove gave a public lecture at Hong Kong University. These are the slides of the public lecture:

These are the slides of the presentation “Opportunity to learn secondary maths: A curriculum approach with TIMSS 2011 data” Dr. Christian Bokhove gave at the BSRLM day conference on 7 November 2015 at the University of Reading.

Ros Hyde, in her role as Chair of the Association of Mathematics Education Teachers (AMET), is a member of the plenary panel at the launch of the Advisory Committee on Mathematics Education (ACME) report on ‘high-quality initial teacher education’ (ITE) for teachers of mathematics. The launch is being held on Thursday 12 November 2015 at…

In the second half of November the second enGasia meeting will take place in Hong Kong. Main activities will be: To finalise and testdrive two draft versions of the digital Geometry books. Discuss how we try out the books in some case studies in the classroom. Work on publications. Some school visits (primary and secondary)…

The International Commission on Mathematical Instruction (ICMI) has announced that the Felix Klein Medal for 2015 has been awarded to Alan J. Bishop, Emeritus Professor of Education, Monash University, Australia. Alan graduated with a B.Sc. in mathematics and science from the University of Southampton in 1961. The Felix Klein Award is for lifelong achievement in…

Several MSHE researchers are presenting at the forthcoming Autumn 2015 conference of the British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics (BSRLM): Christian Bokhove is presenting on “Opportunity to learn secondary mathematics: A curriculum approach with TIMSS 2011 data“; Ruth Edwards and Ros Hyde on “The importance of subject knowledge for mathematics teaching: An analysis of…

Southampton Education School were pleased to welcome visitors from China on Tuesday 6th October 2015. Professor Shiqi Li from East China Normal University gave a seminar on “The Shanghai maths approach: An analysis based on a geometry lesson”. The seminar proved popular, with a good number of local teachers and research students attending. Professor Li…

Keith Jones is in Tokyo, Japan, at the invitation of Shinshu University to co-run (with Nathalie Sinclair of Simon Fraser University, Canada) a workshop for new researchers in mathematics education. He then travels to Beijing to present a seminar at Beijing Normal University. (click to enlarge)

Our research centre is involved in the European MC Squared project. The MC Squared project (www.mc2-project.eu ) is developing a software platform to foster Creative Mathematical Thinking among students and teachers, and to provide creative industries, involved in the production of multimedia content for educational purposes, with new solutions. MC Squared is a three-year project,…

Professor Lianghuo Fan, Head of Mathematics, Science and Health Education Research Centre, has recently given seven invited presentations in several major universities in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Brazil, including East China Normal University (Shanghai), Fudan University (Shanghai), Beijing Normal University, University of Hong Kong, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), and State University…