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Meet an OU statistician
Rebecca Would is a year 12 work experience student who has visited the Maths and Stats department of the OU. She interviewed Karen Vines, a senior lecturer in statistics, to find out about her and her work Maths and Stats students at the … Continue reading
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Mathematics: The unattainable key to success
Dr Cathy Smith, who leads the maths education team here at the OU, has recently had a paper published in the British Journal of Sociology of Education – congratulations Cathy! In a nutshell (if it’s possible!), the paper concerns the … Continue reading
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Using Examples in the Maths Classroom
Here in the OU Maths Education department we have been having some interesting discussions about the specific words we use when talking about teaching practice. In this post we discuss the variety of ways in which examples are used in … Continue reading
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School Maths Conference at the OU – A-levels, Dragon Races and Codes
Rebecca Would is a sixth-form work experience student who visited the Maths and Stats department of the OU and supported the School Maths Conference. This is her report. In July the OU ran a maths conference in conjunction with some … Continue reading
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Reflections on Mathematical thinking in schools (ME620) and Developing Algebraic Thinking (ME625)
This blog post was written by OU student Jim Darby. We have republished this (with permission) from Jim’s personal blog. Jim has encapsulated the learning outcomes of reflecting on his own thinking and appreciating the range of learners thinking. Jim … Continue reading
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Fostering Thinking in the Mathematics Classroom, by Nazanin Nikanjam
This post was written by Nazanin Nikanjam, a mathematics education student who received the 2019 Open University Stanley Collings prize for her writing. I have been teaching Mathematics and English as an Additional Language for the past 26 years, with … Continue reading
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Why do I need to study maths? I’m not doing a maths degree
Written by Gerry Golding Hello, I’m Gerry Golding, deputy chair of Developing Statistical Thinking (ME626). In this blog I would like to tell you about a new and exciting scholarship project that Andrew Potter and I are about to undertake. … Continue reading
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Discussing mastery: ‘small enough’ steps and what they add up to.
This blog is part of a conversation between Cathy Smith, Ruth Edwards and Jayne Webster, discussing a ‘mastery approach’ lesson. We have taken some topics from the conversation: setting a context, careful choice of language, different representations, small steps and reasoning. … Continue reading
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Fluxional calculus for fifteen-year-olds: A masterclass in the History of Mathematics
Written by Brigitte Stenhouse, PhD student in History of Mathematics at the Open University. The reactions I get when I tell people that my PhD is in History of Maths invariably involve some surprise: history and maths aren’t an obvious … Continue reading
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Getting to grips with specialising
There is a question in a recent Foundation level GCSE paper that asks: How would you go about this question? I can think of three ways. I could set up algebraic expressions for the length and width. I could draw … Continue reading
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