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Sailing Through Mathematics
Conference Programme
Monday 10th April
| 12:00 noon |
Registration/Lunch |
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| 2:00pm |
Opening Lecture |
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| 3:15pm |
Refreshments |
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| 3:45pm |
Session 1
| Bob Burn |
Archimedes and limits |
| John Dabell |
Maths on Fire |
| Gerry Leversha |
Taking an Euler line for a walk |
| Janice Simpson |
Learning Styles in the Classroom |
| Bill Richardson |
An introduction to the conference for those attending for the first time (and anyone else who would like to know more) |
| Adam Unwin-Berrey |
Session title awaited |
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| 5:00pm |
Break |
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| 5:15pm |
Session 2
| Margaret Brown |
Post 14 Pathways and Functional mathematics |
| Rachel Gibbons |
It's your responsibility |
| Susan Hickman Pinder |
Hands On Maths |
| Nick Lord |
Intriguing integrals |
| Sir Christopher Zeeman |
The achievement and limitations of the theory of proportion in Euclid, Book V |
| Mathematics Education Centre, Loughborough University |
The Magic of Mechanics -development, delivery and evaluation of workshops for school students |
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| 6:45pm |
Dinner |
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| 7:30pm |
Icebreaker |
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| 8:30 PM |
Quiz |
Tuesday 11th April
| 9:30am |
Session 3
| John Dabell |
Concept Cartoons in maths |
| Gareth Honeyford |
The Good ship IT - Sailing through primary mathematics |
| Doug French |
Some Thoughts on Learning about Fractions |
| Adrian Oldknow |
New, computer-aided, discoveries in the geometry of the tetrahedron |
| Chris Pritchard |
The Elementary Geometry of the Cyclic Quadrilateral |
| Tony Robin |
Some interesting problems |
| Peter Thomas et al |
16+ Open Meeting |
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| 10:45am |
Refreshments |
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| 11:15am |
AGM/Publishers Exhibition |
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| 12:15pm |
Publishers Reception |
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| 12:45pm |
Lunch/Publishers Exhibition |
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| 2:90pm |
Session 4
| Steve Abbott |
How to teach mathematics well - the value of deeper subject knowledge |
| David Crawford |
Mathacadabra! |
| Adam McBride |
Problems! Problems! |
| Elena Nardi |
Towards a new pedagogy for undergraduate mathematics |
| Janice Simpson |
Mind Mapping in the maths classroom |
| Wendy Singleton |
Setting Sail |
| John Rigby |
The Soddy spheres of a tetrahedron |
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| 3:15pm |
Break |
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| 3:30pm |
Session 5
| Tony Croft |
Supporting your students with mathematics & statistics at the transition to University |
| Rachel Foot |
Enhancing Excel as a Teaching Tool |
| Michael Fox |
Going round in circles |
| John Holden |
Enhancing Excel as a Teaching Tool |
| Paola Iannone |
The power of the number line |
| Wendy Singleton |
Setting Sail continued |
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11-16 Open Meeting |
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| 4:45pm |
Refreshments |
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| 5:15pm |
| Lynne McClure |
Primary Plenary |
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| 6:30 PM |
Dinner |
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| 7:30 PM |
Primary Open Meeting |
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| 8:30 PM |
Teaching Committee: Open Meeting |
Wednesday 12th April
| 9:30am |
| Sue Singer |
Presidential Address |
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| 10:45am |
Refreshments |
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| 11:15am |
Session 6
| Colin Abel |
Navigating the Primary Mathematics Challenge |
| Martin Bailey |
Modular Origami |
| Keith Eames |
Use of PowerPoint in delivering Mathematics at Eastbury Comprehensive School |
| Ray Huntley |
People Maths - Seeking Submerged Treasure |
| David Knowles |
Mathematics and Computing Courses at the Open University |
| Bill Richardson |
UKMT |
| John Rigby |
From Primary to Penrose: Tilings for Tiny Tots, Teenagers and Teachers |
| Charlie Stripp |
Further Mathematics Network |
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| 12:30pm |
Lunch |
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| 2:00pm |
Session 7 - or leave for Trip
Francis Bove &
Jane Imrie |
Improving learning in mathematics: challenges and strategies |
| John R Ellis |
Putting the magic in place |
| Doug French |
Proportionality at Key Stages 3 and 4 |
| Gerry Leversha |
What is to be done? |
| Barbara Linton |
QCA Secondary Update |
| Jenny Ramsden |
Mathematics of Navigation |
| Charlie Stripp |
Further Mathematics Network |
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| 3:15pm |
Break |
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| 3:30pm |
Session 8 - Trip
Francis Bove &
Jane Imrie |
Improving learning in mathematics: challenges and strategies |
| Bob Francis |
Session title still awaited |
| Michael De Villiers |
Using dynamic geometry to engage students in defining quadrilaterals themselves |
| Tony Gardiner |
An extension programme for Years 6-10 |
| Donald Keedwell |
Defining sets for ordinary and magic Sudoku squares |
| Peter Thomas |
Advanced Revision (Members of Post 16 Subcommittee) |
| Pam Wyllie |
QCA Primary Update |
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| 4:45pm |
Refreshments |
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| 7:00pm |
Presidential Reception |
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| 7:30pm |
| Annual Dinner |
After Dinner speaker Toni Beardon |
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Thursday 13th April
| 9:30am |
Session 9
| David Acheson |
√66 and all that |
| Barbara Cullingworth |
Japanese Logic Puzzles and Others |
| Michael De Villiers |
Using dynamic geometry to engage students in defining |
| Jennie Golding |
Go Creative in the Secondary Classroom |
Jenny Gage &
Toni Beardon |
Discovering of Maths & Science through video conferencing quadrilaterals themselves |
| Barry Lewis |
Fibonacci numbers and trigonometry - two sides of the golden coin. |
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| 10:45am |
Refreshments |
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| 11:45am |
| Marcus du Sautoy |
Closing Lecture |
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| 12:30pm |
Lunch |
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| 2:00pm |
Branches Committee |
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