Education Grant Funded Activities
The following activities were funded, or partially funded, by the Education Grants scheme during 2022:
- An interactive public show suggesting how humans’ mathematical intelligence is superior to computers. Using games, quizzes and card tricks, audiences will explore several principles of mathematical thinking that give us an edge over computers, such as our ability to estimate, reason, tinker with rules and collaborate.
Previous Activities
Previous activities the Eduction Grants scheme has funded, or partially funded, include:
- Funding to support the creation of an experimental bespoke outdoor Maths garden to provide a resource area for developing Learning Outside the Classroom (LOTC) for Maths.
- To run a STEM course for students to inspire and engage students with Mathematics and its uses. The work will encourage students to study Maths past GCSE and show them a common practical everyday use of Mathematics.
- Maths-based panel show filmed in front of a live studio audience and broadcast online. The event will be part of IF Oxford, a science and ideas Festival, taking place in October 2021. Dr Tom Crawford to host, with guests Bobby Seagull, Susan Okereke, Nira Chamberlain and Sophie Ward.
- Trust-wide times tables competition to reinforce learning around multiplication. Acting as a remedial activity to combat underperforming numeracy rates due to COVID-19 pandemic and lack of parental skills. Using this as a springboard for further maths activities in trust schools and parental upskilling.
- A research project that will use self-explanation training, which aims to improve the understanding of students studying for GCSE Mathematics, particularly those who are borderline 3/4 and 7/8/9. The grant will, in part, be used to provide training booklets to students and train their teachers.
- Invited to speak at MathFest (MAA) and JSM in Philadelphia from 29/6/20-3/8/20 on Florence Nightingale and her contribution to mathematics and data visualization.
- The National Cipher Challenge, an online codebreaking competition designed to get young people excited about mathematics and computing. Can be viewed as a distance learning programme in cryptography, experiences as a serialised adventure over three months in the Autumn.
- The Middlesex Maths team is highly experienced in making undergraduate video lectures and is currently producing around 36 hours per week. Students will be paid to closely scrutinise and curate these videos, finding the best, most interesting and most useful segments to help us develop and disseminate our practice.
- Putting educational research into practice in HE Mathematics and Statistics teaching. The purpose of this meeting is to act as a forum for the exchange of experience, ideas and research associated with implementing practice in higher education which arises from previous educational research.
- Attendance at the World Association of Lesson Study Conference in Amsterdam, September 2019 to learn more about lesson study; an internationally reknowned Japanese professional development model for mathematics teachers, and its impact on mathematics teaching and learning from international practitioners.
- Inspire female students (age 16-18) interested in STEM, through a one-day event to give the students a taste of fascinating advanced topics in mathematics and an idea of what a career in research mathematics might look like.
- Bursaries to enable teachers from across the UK’s education sectors to attend the 14th International Congress on Mathematics Education (ICME14) from 12 July to 19 July 2020 in Shanghai.
- An exhibition about Ada Lovelace, focussing on the importance of her mathematical work and its relevance to today’s world. A joint project with volunteer-run Hinckley & District Museum and will attract school visits and families offering STEM activities.
- Groups of mathematics students visiting primary and secondary schools to deliver maths lessons, which are designed to be fun and cover materiel completely unknown to the students. A focus will be on schools in disadvantaged areas where schools don’t have much opportunity to enrich their curriculum.
- Christmaths Event 2020; hosted by Bishop Challoner and attended by Year 5 pupils from 12 surrounding primary schools. Christmas themed mathematical activities will be designed and delivered by Year 9 pupils.
- Attending a Shanghai Maths Mastery Training event hosted by the Sussex Maths Hub
- Launch of Hackney Engineers Club
- Develop a STEM project linked to supporting the P5 curriculum, culminating in a skills activity day in the College
- Develop a final year undergraduate project looking in to the teaching of mathematics into a paper for publication, to share the work with maths teaching practitioners
- Talking Maths in Public conference
- A teaching and learning development event for those who teach maths and/or physics in higher education
- Hosting an International Stemminar
- Contribute to the BCME9 bursary fund
- The 7th International Meeting in Origami in Science, Mathematics and Education (OSME), held in September 2018
- British Mathematical Olympiad
- Producing a theoretical and practical mathematics based activity called ‘Feed the Fleet’; relating to the management of the Tudor Ship the ‘Mary Rose’
- Run two activities at The Big Bang North West
- Speakers for the MATRIX conference, held in September 2016
- Train as a Certified SI/PAL Supervisor and Trainer specialising in Mathematics Education
- The Maths Challenge; an after-school event
- A workshop on teaching and assessment of computer programming for undergraduate mathematics students
- Provide half day activities to present some aspects of mathematical thinking, help students develop skills related to the study of mathematics and demonstrate links of the mathematics learnt to real life problems via a modified version of the game ‘Little z’.
- A two-day maths festival (28-29 April 2018) aimed at the general public in Oxford
- A conference at QMUL promoting diversity in the STEM subjects, with particular emphasis on Mathematics and its applications to Data Science
- The international competition Naboj; a maths competition for high-school students taking place in Edinburgh
- Produce a short film promoting the CMathTeach designation
- The CETL-MSOR conference; held at the University of Glasgow in September 2018
- Building a ‘pendulum wave’ exhibit to take to The MA/ATM Maths Festival in York on the 15 September 2018
- A Women in Maths workshop for year 10 girls from schools in Sussex
- A workshop entitled ‘Effective Learning: Cognitive Psychology for Students and Lecturers’
- Bring the Maths Pillar to Norwich as a mathematical outreach activity for students in KS3, 4 and 5
- Running the UKMT primary school maths challenge for year 5 students
- Cover supply and travel for two members on the cutting edge research project through the Education Endowment Fund, led by ‘Realistic Maths Education’
- A professional workshop developer to help develop and run workshops at Imperial College London’s public engagement event on the 6 December 2018.