Mathematical creativity lecture

Well, I am off to the North-West of England tomorrow to give a lecture at Edge Hill University. It takes most of a day to get there from Norwich by train, going via London and Liverpool. I've been asked to talk on 'Creativity in mathematics' to a group of primary school teachers on the Edge Hill Mathematics Specialist Teacher Programme.

This topic is one of my personal enthusiasms and one that I always enjoy sharing with primary school teachers. My involvement in classroom-based research in this area goes all the way back to my 1984 PhD, which I did part-time at London University. Over the years I have been privileged to explore the topic further with various groups of more able children in primary schools, particularly at Cringleford Primary, a local school on the edge of Norwich close to the University. So, I have plenty of material from interacting with children to share on this subject – and I hope this will entertain and stimulate the troops in Ormskirk.

The following weekend I shall be doing a repeat performance in Birmingham, with another cohort of mathematics specialist teachers.

I see that Ian Sugarman is doing a session after me at Edge Hill on place value and calculation. He's always good value – likewise, Ian Thomson, who is doing the same session at the Birmingham event.