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26 June 2019
Branch: Exeter MA/ATM
Title: The Symbols and the Symbolised
Presenter: Pete Griffin
Date: Wednesday, 26 June 2019
Time: tba
Summary/Abstract: awaited
Venue Location/Address: tba
Cost: tba
Contact: Please email Richard Perring
13 February 2019
Branch: Liverpool
Title: Are women safer drivers? Are Saudi Arabia women safe drivers?
Presenter: Corina Constantinescu, University of Liverpool.
Date: Wednesday, 13 Feb 2019
Time: 5pm
Summary: Pricing car insurance is a complex mathematical problem. It accounts for the likelihood of having a future accident/claim. Many factors could describe this likelihood, one of them being the age and another one the gender of the driver. What do you think could happen in Saudi Arabia where women were recently allowed to drive, and all of a sudden the drivers’ population will have women of all ages as new drivers? Should we expect more accidents? Or fewer? More severe, or less severe? Should the insurance companies charge women more than men? Let's try to answer these together.
This talk is for Year 11 up, teachers and all those interested in mathematics and its applications.
Venue: tbc
Venue Address:
Contact email: Peter Giblin
Door Charge: Free to all students and members of LivMS. Others pay £4.
6 February 2019
Branch: Exeter MA/ATM
Title: Algebradabera
Presenter: Dietmar Küchemann -
Date: Wednesday, 6 February 2019
Time: tba
Summary: awaited.
Venue Location/Address: tba
Cost: tba
Contact: Please email Richard Perring
19 January 2019
Branch: London
Title: Topics in Depth / Asking Better Questions
Presenters: Jo Morgan and Ed Southall
Summary: For our third session of the year we are very lucky to have two sessions led by two fantastic maths teachers. Jo is a Lead Practitioner at Harris Federation in London. She writes the website Resourceaholic where she shares teaching ideas and resources for secondary mathematics. Jo is a member of the TES Maths Panel and AQA Expert Panel and a regular guest on Mr Barton's podcast. Jo's workshop is about the process of teaching a topic in depth. The focus will be on index notation and index laws. In this session, teachers will reflect on their approaches, consider misconceptions and best practice, and discover new resources to use in their lessons.
Ed has taught in education for 14 years in a variety of roles and is currently the PGCE course leader at Huddersfield University, and a maths education specialist for both Primary and Secondary teacher training. He is currently studying for a PhD and is the author of two books, "Yes, But Why: Teaching for Understanding in Mathematics" and 'Geometry Snacks' with Vincent Pantaloni. Ed blogs at SolveMyMaths . Ed's session will look at "Asking Better Questions". Enhanced subject knowledge can lead to stronger, deeper questions that allow for teachers to uncover more misconceptions and analyse how much students understand topics beyond algorithms.
Date: 19th January 2019
Time: 10 am - 12.30 pm
Venue: UCL Institute of Education
Venue Address: Room 802/804, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL.
Branch Contact : Mark Horley
Door Charge: £10 collected in cash on the door, unless you have already attended an event this academic year and already paid your £10. All sessions are free for Trainee Teachers in their initial training year.
Please sign up via Eventbrite.
13 December 2018
Liverpool Branch
CHRISTMAS LECTURE - sponsored by Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Liverpool
Title: Enigma and the Secret World of Code Breaking
Presenter: James Grime, University of Cambridge.
Date: Thursday, 13 Dec 2018
Time: 2pm
Summary: For as long as we have had secrets we have had secret messages. We present a look at the fascinating history and mathematics of codes and code breaking - from ancient Greece to the present day - including a demonstration of an original WWII Enigma Machine!
Dr James Grime is a mathematician and public speaker. James now runs The Enigma Project and travels the world giving public talks on the history and mathematics of codes and code breaking. James is also a presenter of the YouTube channel numberphile.
Venue: tbc
Venue Address:
Contact email: Peter Giblin
Door Charge: tbc
4 December 2018
Branch Event: Sussex
Title: The Room in the Elephant
Suitable for students in Y9-Y13, this is a talk about many aspects of area, but not the aspects found in textbooks!
Presenter: Chris Pritchard
Date: Tuesday, 4th December 2018
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Lancing College,
Venue Address: Lancing, BN15 0RW
Branch Contact name/email: Dr. Paul Harris p.j.harris@brighton.ac.uk
Door Charge: n/a
24 November 2018
Branch: London
Title: Every class is a mixed attainment class
Summary: In this session we start with the idea that every class contains students with a mix of attainments, interests, stickability, and stuckability! As such offering students accessible tasks which can be developed to different depths is an essential part of lesson planning. Participants will be invited to work on some mathematics and intersperse this with discussions about how any of the tasks might be simplified or extended. The tasks will be suitable for learners from Year 5 to Year 11 but it is likely that the ideas will be applicable to all ages.
Presenter: Mike Ollerton
Date: 24th November 2018
Time: 10 am – 12.30 pm
Venue: UCL Institute of Education
Venue Address: Room 802/804, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL.
Branch Contact : Mark Horley
Door Charge: £10 collected in cash on the door, unless you have already attended an event this academic year and already paid your £10. All sessions are free for Trainee Teachers in their initial training year.
Please sign up via Eventbrite.
15 October 2018
Event Title: A Lesson Without Opportunity To Generalise Mathematically, Is Not A Mathematics Lesson
Presenter: John Mason
Summary: Participants will be invited to consider this conjecture by engaging in tasks which highlight the central role of generalisation in every mathematics lesson, from KS1 through KS4 (and of course beyond!).
Date: 15th October 2018 (NB date was 30/10/18)
Time: 4.30 pm (refreshments 4 pm)
Venue: London Road Campus, University of Reading
Cost: £5 (includes a £5 book token redeemable at bookstalls on the day)
Branch Contact name: Please email any enquiries to Laura Teague
11 October 2018
Branch: Liverpool
Title: Computing the Future
Presenter: Richard Pinch (formerly Strategic Advisor, Mathematics and Security Research at GCHQ)
Date: Thursday 11 Oct 2018
Time: 5.30pm – 6.30pm
Summary: New ways of computing, not based on the further micro-miniaturisation of silicon circuits, are emerging as practical realities. The arrival of quantum computing is now a practical consideration for large companies and national and international bodies; and looking a little further ahead, data storage and processing based on the biological properties of DNA have been demonstrated in the laboratory.
Quantum computing is the new buzzword -- Richard Pinch has been looking into what computers will look like after quantum tech arrives and what newer ideas are still on the drawing board. Mathematics -- old, new and as yet unknown -- will be the key to developing and exploiting these new technologies.
This talk is for Year 11 up, teachers and all those interested in mathematics and its applications.
Venue: tbc
Venue Address:
Branch Contact email: Peter Giblin
Door Charge: Free to all students and members of LivMS. Others pay £4.
6 October 2018
Branch: London
Title: Developing mathematical fluency through "Etudes"
Summary: This session will explore some ‘mathematical etudes’ that are intended to develop students’ fluency in important mathematical processes in ways that are more interesting than traditional exercises.
For our first session of the year, we are thrilled to welcome Colin Foster, Associate Professor of Education and Director of Research in the School of Education at the University of Leicester. Colin has written nearly 200 articles, both academic papers and articles for teacher professional journals, as well as 13 books many of which can be freely accessed at http://www.foster77.co.uk . In this session, Colin will share some ‘mathematical etudes’ that are intended to develop students’ fluency in important mathematical processes in ways that are more interesting than traditional exercises. We will discuss how such tasks can be designed and used in the classroom.
Presenter: Colin Foster
Date: Saturday, 6th October
Time: 10 am to 12.30 pm
Venue: UCL Institute of Education
Venue Address: Room 802/804, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL.
Branch Contact name and email: Mark Horley
Door Charge: £10 (cash to be collected on the day) which will also cover you for the 5 remaining sessions of the 18/19 academic year. Free for Trainee Teachers in their ITT year. Receipts will be provided on request.
Please sign up via Eventbrite.
26 September 2018
Branch Event: Sussex
Title: The Fabulous Fibonacci Zoo and Other Animals
What’s special and magical about this set of numbers – their habitat, their behaviour and their unique character. But then we look at all the related species and see that there is more – much more – going on. Designed to engage and enthuse students pursuing ‘A’ level mathematics.
Presenter: Barry Lewis
Date: Wednesday 26th September 2018
Time: 4:30pm
Venue: Brighton Hove & Sussex Sixth Form College (BHASVIC)
Venue Address: 205 Dyke Road, Hove BN3 6EG
Branch Contact name/email: Dr. Paul Harris p.j.harris@brighton.ac.uk
Door Charge: n/a
26 September 2018
Exeter MA/ATM
Title: Numbers of Formats of Numbers
Presenter: John Mason and Anne Watson
Date: Wednesday, 26 September 2018
Time: 6pm coffee. Talk 6.15pm – 8pm
Summary/Abstract: Appreciating multiplicative relationships is one of the challenges faced by many children. We suspect that encountering a variety of formats for number early on could enrich children’s experience, appreciate and comprehension of number. Participants will be invited to engage with a variety of tasks based on making sense of various number formats, providing access to topics often delayed until secondary or later
Suitable for both primary and secondary teachers of mathematics.
Venue: Exeter Mathematics School
Address: Rougemont House, Castle Street, Exeter, Devon EX4 3PU
Cost: Free
Contact: Please contact Richard Perring at as spaces are limited and allocated on a first come first served basis.
30 June 2018
Title: Practising Mathematics - Developing the Mathematician as Well as the Mathematics
Presenters: Dave Hewitt and Tom Francome
When: Saturday, 30th June
Time: 9:00am-12:15pm
Where: Fraser Noble Hall, Leicester University, Leicester, LE1 7RA
Summary: Practising Mathematics offers a wide selection of ideas for practising the content of the upper primary and secondary mathematics curriculum. This fascinating session aims to develop the reasoning and problem solving skills that are so vital for success in school and beyond.
Practising Mathematics is an ATM publication that contains a collection of tasks and activities from numerous areas of the mathematics curriculum, including Number Work, Ratio and Proportion, Algebra, Geometry, Probability and Statistics.
The session will be mainly aimed at Upper KS2, KS3, KS4 but ALL are welcome to attend as there’s sure to be something useful to everyone in the session.
Both MA and ATM Bookstalls will be available at break. Arrive 9:00am for 9:30am start.
Please sign up using the Eventbrite link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/east-midlands-maatm-event-dave-hewitt-tom-francome-tickets-43507996589?aff=es2
14 June 2018
Cambridge MA ATM Branch Meeting
Title: Mathematical Games Extravaganza
Presenters: Cambridge Maths team
Date: Thursday, 14th June 2018
Venue: MAB Building, Faculty of Education, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ
Time: 5 pm – 6.30 pm (4.30 pm coffee and networking)
Contact: To book a place please email Lynne McClure
9 June 2018
Branch: Yorkshire Branch
Title: A story of Mathematics told through my stamp collection
Presenter: Jane Turnbull - YBMA
Date: Saturday, 9th June 2018
Time: 2pm for 2:30pm
Summary: A chance to have a look at some of my stamp (and other related philatelic items) collection which tells a history of mathematics. You will be able to hear about a selection of my favourite bits and for those of you who enjoyed the talk last year there will definitely be a new selection for you to see.
Venue: University of Leeds, School of Mathematics, Room MALL 1, Leeds LS2 9JT
Contact: Alan Slomson
Extra Note: The YBMA AGM (at the same venue) will follow this presentation.
23 May 2018
Branch: Sheffield
Title: Ideas on how to develop P4C in mathematics
Presenter: Fufy Demissie and others
Date: Wednesday, 23rd May 2018
Time: 4.30 - 6 pm
Summary: You are warmly invited to the first branch meeting of The Maths Association at Sheffield Hallam University. This is an exciting opportunity to bring educators from around South Yorkshire together to share ideas and challenge thinking on how mathematics can transform lives in people of different ages, in many different ways. There will be a contribution from Fufy Demissie who will share some ideas on how to develop P4C in mathematics, which ties in well with some of the ideas around developing talk and thinking in mathematics.
Venue: Sheffield Hallam University, Charles Street Building, Room 12.2.18
Branch Contact name/email: Lisa Ashmore - L.Ashmore@shu.ac.uk
Door Charge: n/a
10 March 2018
Title: Tried and Tested
Presenter: Netty Glatter
Summary: The speaker will be bringing some resources she uses in the classroom and then we’re asking everyone to share some resources that they have created/adapted. This session will be directly relevant to the teachers’ classroom needs rather than ivory tower speculation.
Date: Saturday, 10 March 2018
Time: 9:30 to 12:30
Venue: Abbey Junior School’s Abbey Gardens, Northumberland Ave, Reading RG2 7AQ
22 March 2018
Joint MA ATM Cambridge Branch Meeting
Date: 22nd March 2018
Venue: University of Cambridge Primary School, Eddington Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0QZ (public car parking available nearby).
Time: 5 pm – 6.30 pm (4.30 pm coffee and networking)
Cost: Free for members of MA or ATM (please have your membership number) or £2 student, £5 others
Contact: To book a place please email Lynne McClure
Please let Lynne know by 15th March enough biscuits are bought!
21 March 2018
Branch: Yorkshire Branch
Title: W P Milne Lecture for Sixth Formers - Are large databases good for your health?
Presenter: Dr Paul Baxter – Associate Professor in Biostatistics - University of Leeds
Date: Wednesday, March 21st 2018
Time: 2.30pm-3.30pm
Summary: The big increase in computing power over recent years has made it possible to routinely record large volumes of information about our daily lives (and especially our health). Statistics is the essential tool for making sense of the huge quantities of data available. There are many exciting challenges – often the data that are missing or poorly recorded are at least as informative as the data that are present. The real strength of such databases comes when they are linked together to see the bigger picture, but how do we do this, and should we worry that our privacy is being invaded? In this talk we look at these issues through examples ranging from goals in world cup football to survival following a heart attack.
This lecture forms part of the Leeds Festival of Science. Places at the lecture are free but must be booked in advance.
Venue: University of Leeds, Rupert Beckett Lecture Theatre, Michael Sadler Building, Leeds LS2 9JT
Contact: Alan Slomson
Places at the lecture are free but must be booked in advance.
10 March 2018
Branch: Yorkshire Branch
Title: Enriching the teaching of A level mathematics: a study day for teachers.
Presenters: Tom Roper (pre-lunch) Lizzie Kimber (post-lunch)
Date: Saturday, 10th March 2018
Time: 11am for 11:15am
Summary:
Teaching mechanics: assumptions, misconceptions and Newton’s Laws
This workshop will cover basic assumptions, misconceptions and Newton’s Laws in the teaching of mechanics. There will be many activities used that can be taken very easily directly into the classroom
Using rich tasks for teaching A level Mathematics
We will work together on some rich tasks offered by Underground Mathematics and consider the different ways in which the resources could be used to develop students' mathematical thinking. We will also discuss how classroom video clips can be used for teacher professional development.
Venue: University of Leeds, School of Mathematics, Room MALL 1, Leeds LS2 9JT
Contact: For more details and to register for the study day please e-mail Alan Slomson.
3 March 2018
MA ATM London Branch
Presenter: Charlie Gilderdale
Title: Encouraging Curiosity in Mathematics
Summary: We all know that Charlie will come with some amazing problems. Deceptively simple, but everyone will get their deep thinking brains in gear. Nrich is producing new resources that will encourage curiosity in mathematics. Charlie will be introducing resources from this new project. Always a magical event.
Date: Saturday 3 March 2018
Time: 10:00 to 12:30
Venue: University College London, Institute of Education (UCL/IOE) Room 802 and 804, Main Building on Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL
Contact: Chris Olley
24 February 2018
MA ATM East Midlands
Presenter: Don Steward
Summary: School mathematics is an interconnected subject, an elegant whole. Arguably, as the National Curriculum implores, it is most helpful for students to be able to shift fluently between representations of mathematical ideas – so they feel their attainment is lifted and to enhance a personal appreciation of the subject. This session aims to illuminate the nature of the subject by linking skills, concepts and problem solving approaches within a range of tasks. In this foray, an intertwining of numerical operations, algebraic symbolism and related diagrams ought to be clear and some relevant wisdom from (ancient) history knitted in.
Date: Saturday, 24 February 2018
Time: 09:00 to 12:30
Venue: University of Leicester - Fraser Nobel Hall Leicester LE1 7RH
Contact: Robert J. Smith and Greg Thomas
Book in Advance Cost:
Teachers £5.35 Booking Fee £1.00 Total: £6.35
Students £3.14 Booking fee £0.84 Total = £3.98
There is no booking fee if you do not book in advance, however, spaces are limited and the session is expected to be very popular. Please do not be offended if you turn up and are refused entry without a ticket.
Should space be available, the cost on the day: Teachers £7.00, Students £5.00
Important: Due to the popularity of previous events held at this venue you are strongly advised to book early.
Sign up for this session here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/east-midlands-maatm-branch-session-don-steward-tickets-39658519700?aff=es2
Bookstalls for ATM and MA will be available before (arrive 9am for 9:30am start) and during the break.
22 February 2018
Category: Branch Event
Branch: Exeter MA/ATM
Headline/Event Title: Adventures in Shape & Space
Presenter: Tom Roper
Date: Thursday, 22 February 2018
Time: 6.30pm coffee. Talk 7pm – 8pm
Summary/Abstract: In this talk, Tom Roper considers how other subjects make use of shape and space. What might shape and space look like if we change the way we measure? There will be lots to explore, activities to undertake, some that may be of use in the classroom, some that may just need further research by you! We shall begin with the well-known theorem that small mammals are either furry or eat a lot, or both!
Suitable for anyone who is interested, but particularly for teachers of KS4 and KS5 mathematics.
Tom Roper taught mathematics in schools and colleges for 17 years, before joining the staff of the School of Education at the University of Leeds. He is now retired and is the current President of The Mathematical Association.
Venue: Exeter Mathematics School
Venue Location/Address: Rougemont House, Exeter, Devon EX4 3PU
Cost: Free
Branch Contact: Please contact Richard Perring to ensure your place.
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