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Education Day

The annual аĿª½±Education Day is an opportunity for mathematics lecturers and colleagues across the higher education sector to meet and discuss aspects of education directly related to higher education. It is a free event and usually consists of a number of talks followed by discussion groups.

Details of upcoming Education Days will be posted to the аĿª½±homepage.

Previous Education Days

2024:

The 2024 Education Day on 'Mathematics, AI and DigiTech Futures' was held on 22 May 2024 at De Morgan House. The day featured a keynote talk by Professor Michael Grove on Generative AI: Its implications, and opportunities, for policy, pedagogy and practice within the mathematical sciences. This was followed by short presentations of discussion papers:

  1. Dr Sofya Lyakhova (Swansea University) presenting  (JMC Digital Technologies and Mathematics Education Working Group discussion paper, June 2023)
     
  2. Dr Cosette Crisan and Dr Eirini Geraniou (UCL Institute of Education) presenting  (Royal Society Mathematical Futures Programme Project report, April 2023)
     
  3. Prof Alison Clark-Wilson (UCL Knowledge Lab) presenting  (JMC report, July 2023)

The afternoon session involved three breakout groups which looked at sharing and showcasing good practice:

  1. Dynamic Digital Tools in teaching and learning (GeoGebra and Desmos) - Tom Button (MEI)
     
  2. Digital tools in marking (Crowdmark) - Dr Beatrice Navarro Lameda (UCL) and (Gradescope) - Prof Paul Glaister (Reading University)
     
  3. Computers and theorems proving (LEAN) - Dr Athina Thoma (University of Southampton) and Dr Gihan Marasingha (Exeter University)

A report will be published in the September issue of the аĿª½±Newsletter.

2023:

The 2023 Education Day on 'Diversifying the Undergraduate Mathematics Curriculum' was held on Wednesday 24 May 2023 at De Morgan House. See details of some of the presentations below.

  • Richard Crossman and Emmanuel Ogundimu, Durham University: 'Decolonising the Undergraduate Mathematics Curriculum'. Download slides here.
     
  • June Barrow-Green and Brigitte Stenhouse, The Open University: 'Contextualising the Curriculum through the History of Mathematics'. Download slides here.
     
  • Noel-Ann Bradshaw and Tony Mann, University of Greenwich: 'Students' obstacles to 'belonging' to the mathematics community'. Download slides here.

2019:

The 2019 Education Day was held on 13 May 2019. A report on the day was published in the July 2019 issue of the аĿª½±Newsletter, which can be accessed here (see page 16).