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Expanding the previously successful Numbers in Everyday Life project, we explore the embeddedness and transferability of the ‘Written Numbers in Everyday Life’ resources within family populations of diverse socio-cultural backgrounds in two different national contexts: England and Jamaica.   Research collaborators: Dr Charis Voutsina (PI), University of Southampton, UK Dr Lois George (Co-I), The University of The West Indies,…

The COSMOS teacher conference took place in Prague during the 15-16th November 2023. The conference aimed at bringing together primary and secondary school teachers from all partner countries (Belgium, UK, The Netherlands, Israel, Portugal, Sweden) to exchange experiences of their first year of participating in the COSMOS project and to engage in mutual learning deepening their…

It was a pleasure for our Research Centre to host Professor Jodie Hunter from Massey University, New Zealand on 3rd October. Professor Jodie gave a presentation titled ‘Using a strengths-based approach to decolonise mathematics education’, and she shared a variety of research activity connected to culturally sustaining pedagogies for Maori and Pasifika learners of Mathematics. We…

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…

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….

Dr Ben Davies has secured funding for developing an interactive version of the School Mathematics Textbook materials. Interactive SMP  focuses on developing online interactive workbooks for secondary school mathematics. These workbooks will be adaptations of the existing SMP archive and are a collaboration between the Southampton Education School, Department of Mathematics, and 10+ secondary school…

An article “Distinguishing Nature of Science Beliefs, Knowledge and Understandings” authored by Richard Brock and MSHE colleague Wonyong Park has been published in the journal Science & Ecuation. Whilst teaching about the nature of science (NOS) is a significant goal of science education, there remains debate about specifying the NOS and appropriate pedagogies and approaches…

In Spring 2022 we conducted the ‘Mathematics in Transit’ project. In this project a team of teachers and researchers from post-16 schools, the Southampton Education School and the School of Mathematics, explored curriculum materials to find the topic that would be most helped with a supporting booklet. The most useful topic was ‘proof’. This booklet…