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 onÌýGenerative AI: Its implications, and opportunities, for policy, pedagogy and practice within the mathematical sciences.ÌýThis was followed by short presentations of discussion papers:
- Dr Sofya LyakhovaÌý(Swansea University) presentingÌýÌý(JMC Digital Technologies and Mathematics Education Working Group discussion paper, June 2023)
Ìý - Dr Cosette Crisan and Dr Eirini GeraniouÌý(UCL Institute of Education) presentingÌýÌý(Royal Society Mathematical Futures Programme Project report, April 2023)
Ìý - Prof Alison Clark-WilsonÌý(UCL Knowledge Lab) presentingÌýÌý(JMC report, July 2023)
The afternoon session involved three breakout groups which looked at sharing and showcasing good practice:
- Dynamic Digital Tools in teaching and learningÌý(GeoGebra and Desmos) -ÌýTom Button (MEI)
Ìý - Digital tools in marking (Crowdmark)Ìý-ÌýDr Beatrice Navarro Lameda (UCL) andÌý(Gradescope)Ìý- Prof Paul Glaister (Reading University)
Ìý - Computers and theorems proving (LEAN)Ìý-ÌýDr 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.
Ìý - June Barrow-Green and Brigitte Stenhouse, The Open University: 'Contextualising the Curriculum through the History of Mathematics'. Download slides here.
Ìý - 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).