Has Athena Swan lost its way?
The Athena Swan charter was established in 2005 to advance the careers of female academics in science, technology, engineering, maths and medicine (STEMM). Yet it now discourages academic...
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A moment to breathe: How reflection can reduce teacher maths anxiety
This post explores the need for professional learning development to reduce teacher maths anxiety, and follows up on a recent blog post about reducing pupil maths anxiety. Worldwide demand for...
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Towards a more equitable and empowering mathematics curriculum: What if we made progressive pedagogies more visible?
The Covid-19 pandemic has added to growing concerns about how misleading statistics and media reports can influence the beliefs and behaviour of millions of people. The Organisation for Economic...
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The fear factor: Children’s post-lockdown maths anxiety
Maths anxiety (MA) plays a role in educational disparities and the gender pay gap, yet it is not often addressed at the chalkface. Covid-induced school disruption may have made learning for...
Continue reading blog postMathematics Education SIG Convenor Vacancy
BERA invites expressions of interest from those who would like to act as a convenor or co-convenor(s) of the Mathematics Education SIG The SIG is linked to the British Society for Research into...
High standards, not high stakes
An alternative to SATs that will transform England’s testing & school accountability system in primary education & beyond
Little fish, big streams: Early in-class maths ‘ability’ groups, early teacher judgements & primary schoolchildren’s later maths self-concept
Maths self-concept is important, not only for children’s experiences within education but because it is strongly related to subject choice, attainment and adult careers (Hansen & Henderson,...
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Digital technology in education Keeping pace with innovation Research Intelligence issue 145 Just as practitioners are struggling to keep up with the onslaught of new technologies entering the...
Flattening the awarding gap through identity work
The awarding gap is starkest between the likelihood of White (domiciled) students and Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) (domiciled) students being awarded a ‘good’ degree in the United...
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Does breaking up a video into parts improve learning?
With Covid-19 pushing video deeper into our pandemic-affected classrooms, studying multimedia design has taken on a new urgency. My recent article in the British Journal of Educational Technology...
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Anti-racist mathematics teacher education
On 28 August 2020 thousands marched through Washington DC to mark the 57th anniversary of the famous ‘I have a dream’ speech by Martin Luther King Jr. My research interests include anti-racism...
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Maths at the kitchen table: Capturing teacher and family voices on online teaching and learning in Covid-19 times
The Covid-19 pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on everyday life across the world. In January 2020, we could not have imagined that in just a few months as many as 138 countries would...
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