Continuing Professional Development

Future Conferences

Exciting Ideas for Teaching Secondary Mathematics
Friday 6th March 2009, Holiday Inn, Garforth, Leeds

The second MA one-day event for secondary mathematics teachers in Yorkshire and Humberside will be held on Friday 6th March 2009 at the Holiday Inn, Garforth, near Leeds. Following the success of last year's event, delegates will have the opportunity to hear opening and closing plenaries from Paul Andrews of University of Cambridge and Jane Imrie of the NCETM (and President Designate of the MA). A diverse choice of talks, workshops and discussion groups will be offered which aim to invigorate secondary mathematics teaching around the central theme Exciting Ideas for Teaching Secondary Mathematics.

The conference cost is £100 per delegate and online booking and payment will be available on the MA website from November 2008.

Online conference registration

The conference programme can be downloaded by clicking here (pdf).

Recent Conferences

The Mathematical Association Secondary Education Mathematics Conference
Saturday 20th September 2008, Stirling University

The annual MA one-day event for Scottish secondary mathematics teachers took place on Saturday 20th September 2008. The event attracted over 200 delegates who enjoyed a stimulating day with Paul Andrews of University of Cambridge providing the key-note address. The event offered a diverse range of talks, workshops and discussion groups covering the whole of the secondary education phase.

The detailed conference programme can be downloaded here as a pdf.

The MA Secondary Mathematics Conference
Friday 22nd February 2008, York

This regional event, held with support from the NCETM and STEMNET in Yorkshire and Humberside attracted over 90 delegates who took part in a wide range of talks, presentations and workshops. Delegate feedback from the day, both informal and via the evaluation forms, was hugely positive, with responses such as the best part of the day was… "…bouncing ideas off inspired/inspiring individuals" and "…the opportunity to meet with and share ideas about teaching practices".

The opening plenary talk was given by Rob Eastaway and Tom Roper gave the closing plenary talk. Our thanks go to Mary Ledwick and Tony Shepherd for organising the event and to each of the 15 presenters/workshop leaders for making the event such a success. We are already exploring the possibility of holding a similar event in 2009.

Teaching Mathematics with ICT

The Mathematical Association works jointly with the Association of Teachers of Mathematics to provide professional development resources to support teachers' uses of ICT. These can be found on the Teaching mathematics with ICT web page.

SmartBoard interactive whiteboard training for mathematics

Designed especially for Steljes by the Mathematical Association, this half-day course is designed to help teachers use the power and functionality of the SMART Board interactive whiteboard (IWB) to enhance teaching and learning in mathematics.

The course will be very strongly focused on subject specific resources and issues. Teachers will be given the opportunity to work with and adapt resources that have been tried, tested and found specifically helpful to teachers and learners of mathematics.

Full details can be found on the Steljes website.

Diary Dates

BETT The Educational Technology Show, Olympia London 14th - 17th Jan 2009.

The MA will have a presence at the BETT Show in the Subject Association Information Centre. In addition, Adrian Oldknow and Alison Clark-Wilson will give the annual Mathematical Association Seminar which will give delegates an opportunity to find about the range of ICT projects that the Association has led and supported over the past year. The conference is free to attend and full details can be found at:
www.bettshow.com/page.cfm

Education Show NEC, Birmingham 26th - 28th March 2009
www.education-show.co.uk

The MA will have a presence at the BETT Show in the Subject Association Information Centre

Tailor-made Conferences for schools/clusters of schools!

The MA can organise a range of one-day conferences and workshops to local school clusters on a variety of themes.

Please contact  cpd@m-a.org.uk  if you are interested in the MA helping with your training needs.

Please contact the Association's offices for more information about what the Association has to offer.