The National Teacher Research Panel was set up about 15 years ago by CUREE supported by a group of national education agencies most of which no longer exist. It had three main goals:
- To ensure that all research in education takes account of the teacher perspective
- To ensure a higher profile for research and evidence informed practice in government, academic and practitioner communities
- To increase the number of teachers engaged in and with the full spectrum of research activity.
Over the several years of its existence, the Panel, supported by its expert advisers in CUREE, has helped and encouraged dozens of teachers and school leaders to do high quality but practical research. The Panel also helped them report their findings succinctly, in plain English and focused on relevance to other practitioners. This is one such example of that work.
Aim: The prevailing modern view of mathematical ability is one which includes creativity and transcends the more limited concept of technical ability. There is, however, little widely available material which, in a simple and accessible way, introduces secondary school age children to the world of creative mathematics. This projects main aim was to bridge this gap. It sought to do so through the development of a base of knowledge and resources to initiate the teaching and learning of mathematics at Key Stages 3 and 4 in a context of the historical development of mathematical sciences.
The project aimed to:
Increase pupils motivation in learning mathematics through story-telling;
Improve pupils understanding of the subject through contextual learning; and
Enable pupils to gain skills in structuring their knowledge and linking different mathematical concepts through their increased knowledge of the development of mathematical concepts.
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