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Introduction School mathematics curricula across the world give ‘problem solving’ a high profile, but what exactly does ‘problem solving’ mean? Can it be taught; and, if it can, how can...
Continue reading blog postPlease join us for this meeting to let us know what kind of events you think our SIG should be involved in. We are particularly interested in identifying how to make closer links with colleagues...
The British prime minister, Rishi Sunak, lately announced his ambition ‘to move towards all children studying some form of maths to 18’ (Sunak, 2023), prompting questions about what maths this...
Continue reading blog postIn a recent speech the UK’s prime minister, Rishi Sunak, once again raised the profile of mathematics on the basis that ‘our children’s jobs will require more analytical skills than ever...
Continue reading blog postMy initial undergraduate education was in agriculture and forestry and I have a masters’ in forestry and land management. I trained to be a secondary mathematics teacher through an innovative a...
Mathematical ideas, concepts or procedures are interconnected; they therefore cannot be understood well in isolation. Mathematical connections made in the classroom give students opportunities to...
Continue reading blog postThe SIG is linked to the British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics (BSRLM) and aims to bring together researchers interested in a wide range of issues involving the teaching and...
Findings from studies captured in this special issue make for compelling reading about the direction of language and literacy research in the UK and further afield. Ian Collen, from Queen’s...
Continue reading blog postAn interest in neurolinguistics and the idea that children’s development of thought and language is interdependent (Vygotsky, 1962; Bloom, 2000) has led to my research about how classroom talk...
Continue reading blog postThis special issue of the BERA Blog places a spotlight on educational research in the field of language and literacy. Covering a range of topics from modern language learning to language as an...
Would you be willing to act as a reviewer for abstracts submitted to the BERA Annual Conference 2023? To be involved, you will need to: be a BERA Member be available to referee abstracts...
Design research (or design-based research) is a methodological framework that focuses on the ‘tomorrow’; that is, the design of education as it could or should be (Bakker, 2018). Informed by a...
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