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Mathematics

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This area of the School of Education delivers the mathematics education components of the BEd (Hons) Primary Education, the PGDE (Primary) and the PGDE (Secondary) education programmes.

The area is staffed by lecturers who have extensive experience in teaching in Primary and Secondary schools and who have a particular interest in improving the quality of mathematics education at these levels.

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is provided to teachers locally and nationally. Recent work in this area has dealt with

• Early Intervention in Mathematics
• Problem Solving in the Primary School
• Improving Numeracy in Schools
• Language and Mathematics Education
• Introducing Algebra in the Primary School
• Higher Still Developments
• Using Graphic Calculators in Schools

Recent work includes the development of a CD Rom on Using Graphic Calculators in Schools which has been issued to every secondary school in Scotland. (This work is in conjunction with Learning and Teaching Scotland and the Scottish Interactive Technology Centre.

Allan Duncan, Senior Lecturer in Mathematics Education, has delivered workshops on the use of the CD ROMs at the Scottish Mathematical Council's conference in Stirling (April 2004) and at the International Congress on Mathematics Education (ICME-10) in Copenhagen, Denmark (July 2004).

Our research interests cover:-

• Numeracy competence levels of BEd students
• Supporting students for whom mathematics is regarded as their weak subject
• Students' preconceptions about mathematics
• The impact of ICT on the learning and teaching of mathematics
• The impact of graphic calculators on learning and teaching mathematics
• Improving pupils' mental calculation strategies
• Mathematics recovery - Using video to support and improve children's arithmetical strategies at the early stages

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