From Prague to Nottingham: Building on Best Practice Internationally
Aim: To adopt and adapt the best practice in mathematics teaching from the Czech Republic within classrooms in the City of Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Education Authorities.
The Evidence People
Numeracy/maths
Girls, calculators and graphics concepts
Aim: To help students to improve their understanding of graphs with the use of a graphic calculator.
Use of Two-Dimensional Pepresentations to aid the Transition from Arithmetic to Algebra
Aim: To investigate the extent to which use of a teaching approach based on the concept of area would help students overcome key difficulties in the transition from arithmetic to algebra.
Teacher confidence and teaching and learning in data handling
Aim: To examine the effect of teacher confidence on pupil confidence and hence achievement in the teaching and learning of mathematics with particular reference to data handling.
Using action learning to support the development of primary teachers mathematical knowledge
Aim: The aim of this doctoral project (with Sussex University) was to improve the mathematical performance of an inner city primary school by developing the subject knowledge, pedagogical skills and the curriculum content knowledge of its teachers.
Making the strange familiar: emphasising the role of mathematics across the curriculum
Aim: By working collaboratively with other departments and concentrating on the language and processes used in the teaching and learning process, the Knowledge Network aims to enable learners to better apply their mathematics to unfamiliar situations.
Lets work together supporting mathematics subject leaders through clustering
Aim: To provide a supportive network for mathematics subject leaders, to develop approaches to teaching mathematics and to share effective strategies and resources between schools.
Developing Skills in Mathematical Explanation
Aim: To find out ways in which teachers can become more effective at developing childrens skills in the area of written mathematical explanation.
The Da Vinci project - Can we change pupils' perceptions of creativity in Science and Mathematics?
Aim: To explore pupils perceptions of creativity across the curriculum, to show that being a scientist and an artist aren't mutually exclusive and to measure the impact of the project on pupils perceptions of creativity in Science and Mathematics.
Effectively Teaching Infants Mental Arithmetic
Aim: To examine the problems children encounter in arithmetic and to decide whether a programme of activities using visual images developed by Catherine Stern in the 1940s could be used by teachers to improve pupils' mental arithmetic.