Events

Upcoming Events: 

1st Monday of every month, 16.00-17.00 Online Reading Group.

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5-6 September 2024, 2-day workshop on working with history of mathematics resources at University of Manchester. (Registration)

This workshop will run from mid-morning on Thursday 5 Sept., until mid afternoon on Friday 6 Sept. We hope this will enable many participants to attend with only one night away from home. We expect to be able to cover 1 night’s accommodation, and reasonable travel expenses, for about 20 people. If you would like to come, please register.

Worshop sessions are likely to include:

  1. Presentations, discussions and activities around embedding aspects of historical resources into teaching materials
  2. Discussion of what to look for in a history of maths resource
  3. Discussion and constructive critiquing of some existing materials
  4. Discussion of what you would be looking for in an evaluation framework or toolkit

Please indicate on the registration form, other ideas you have, that you would like to see covered, and which of the above you are particularly interested in.

4-5 February 2025,  2-day event at the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge.

Further information on this event to follow.  

Past Events:

Panel discussion of approaches to using history of mathematics in mathematics teaching (online) 15 April 2024

Ciarán Mac an Bhaird (Maynooth), Ric Crossman (Durham) and Pierre-Philippe Dechant (Leeds), presented their experiences of using history of mathematics in varied ways and contexts, and led a discussion.

Student focus groups

During spring 2024 we hosted a series of 2-hour focus groups for HE mathematics students at various locations across the UK. These explored students’:

  • Understanding / experience of EDI
  • Experience of historical content in mathematics degree
  • In what ways has this historical content supported or inhibited E

Report and discussion of staff focus group outcomes (online) 14 Dec 2023

Discussion was based around this overview of focus grouop outcomes. The outcomes are now being analysed in more depth.

Staff focus groups

During the autumn of 2023, the Network hosted a series of 1-day focus groups for HE mathematics teaching staff at locations across the UK and Republic of Ireland. They addressed these questions:

  • In what ways are current HE maths curricula experienced as exclusive?
  • What examples are there of using history to make the curriculum more inclusive?
  • What support do practitioners need in using history to diversify the curriculum?

Focus groups were held at:

  • Maynooth, 29th of August 2023
  • Leeds, 6th of September 2023
  • Oxford, 29th September 2023
  • Edinburgh, 5th October 2023

 

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