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At the AGM in April, we welcomed Charlie Stripp as the new President of the MA.
Charlie is a passionate advocate of mathematics education at all levels, from primary school to university.
As Chief Executive of the maths education charity, Mathematics in Education and Industry (MEI), Charlie leads an organisation which plays a national role in mathematics curriculum development and teacher professional development. MEI plays a key role in the development and leadership of major government-funded programmes to improve maths education: the Advanced Mathematics Support Programme (AMSP), the National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics (NCETM) and the Maths Hubs Programme.
Since first training to be a teacher, Charlie has been a member of the Mathematical Association, serving as Chair of Teaching Committee and a member of the MA’s Council in the late 1990s and early 2000s. He was awarded an MBE for services to education in 2015.
Charlie's Interviews
Charlie discusses Special Educations Needs (SEN) in mathematics with Nick Sheffield. Nick has been a teacher and senior leaders in schools and is a SEN specialist. They discuss how to do the best by all children and teach them mathematics. Many maths teachers aren't confident in supporting pupils with SEN. Charlie wants to improve teaching maths to pupils with SEN and support those teaching them mathematics.
Charlie and Jenny Cains discuss Core Maths, a Level 3 post-16 maths qualification designed for students who achieve a grade 4 or above in GCSE Maths, but who do not want to study A level Maths. Jenny has been teaching Core Maths since it started in 2016.
Core Maths is highly valued within the schools and colleges that offer it, by both teachers and students, and more students than ever are now taking Core Maths qualifications. The qualification allows students to carry on learning mathematics after GCSE, showing them how to use and build from the maths they learned pre-16 to help them make sense of the world, equipping them to apply maths in the workplace and as informed citizens in society.
Charlie and Jenny’s discussion addresses what Core Maths is like to teach, what students think of it, and how it is relevant to fostering positive attitudes towards maths and maths education.
Join Charlie Stripp as he interviews Jane Hawkins - NCETM Assistant Director and experienced classroom teacher. They focus on attitudes to maths and maths education within the transition from Key Stage 2 to Key Stage 3. Approx. 30% of KS2 children are not meeting age related expectations, with pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds being twice as represented in this group. They discuss the need for a secure foundation of mathematics and flexible learning methods to assist pupils studying maths at KS3. The also discuss the importance of oracy in education and how oracy might contribute to improving teaching and learning in the maths classroom.
Links of interest:
Join Charlie Stripp as he interviews Tom Button - Mathematics Technology Specialist at MEI. They discuss embedding technology into the teaching and learning of mathematics and how technology can be used to enhance students' learning within the mathematics classroom.
They then consider potential future developments around how data science might be integrated into the curriculum, empowering young people to understand and make sense of the role of data, machine learning and AI in society and preparing them for life and work in a world increasingly influenced by data science.
Links of interest:
• Effective questions when using dynamic graphs (blog)
• JMC Report: Mathematics education and digital technology
• Exploring Data with technology (CODAP resources for KS3-4)
• MEI Introduction to data science (Python resources for A level/Core Maths)
• Mathematical and Data Literacy (Open University report)
• The Royal Society Mathematical Futures Programme
MA President Charlie Stripp interviews Abby Cotton on 'Challenges Mathematics Educations Faces'.
Abby is a Maths Hub Lead and Primary Maths Specialist. They discuss how maths is developing and improving within primary schools in England and important points about primary school maths teaching and the value of TfM.
MA President Charlie Stripp interviews Andy Noyes on ‘Challenges Mathematics Education Faces’.
Andy is a Professor of Mathematics Education at the University of Nottingham, Chair of the Joint Mathematics Council, (JMC) and the founding Director of the Observatory for Mathematics Education at the University of Nottingham. Andy was also a member of the Mathematical Futures Programme Board at the Royal Society, whose recent report sets out a vision for the future of mathematical education.
Charlie interviews David Thomas - CEO of Axiom Maths, around public attitudes to maths and maths education, particularly relating to pupils in KS2-KS3 from disadvantaged backgrounds. David discusses research carried out by Axiom Maths that was inspired by findings from the University of Nottingham about children's mathematical journeys between the ages of 11-16. There is a huge shift in attitudes towards maths between Year 6 and Year 7.
He also discusses a new report on public attitudes to maths that was commissioned by Axiom Maths and shows some surprisingly positive results. You can access the full data tables from the polling here.
Charlie interviews Kathryn Greenhalgh - Executive Director of Maths for the Outwood Grange Academy Trust and co-lead for the Yorkshire and Humber Maths Hub. Kathryn is also the Chair of the Maths Hub Council. They discuss a variety of issues around student attitudes towards mathematics in schools, particularly those in less advantaged areas.
In the second part of their interview, they discuss subject specialist maths teachers (those who chose to train as maths teachers through their initial teacher training) and ways to support the development and retention of secondary mathematics teachers, both specialist and non-specialists.
Part 1
Part 2