Thursday 11 November 2010

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.

2 comments:

  1. Hi Derek

    Hope you have a good event.

    Let me know if you will be appearing in Berkshire.

    Cheers

    George

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  2. Respected Sir,
    Myself is lecturer in college of education in India. My Ph.D. topic was 'Developing Strategy for Fostering Mathematical Creativity among Class IX Students'. I've developed a Strategy and Mathematical Creativity Test in that research. Sir,your research papers helped me a lot in giving direction in my research.
    Thanks .......Please Keep it up..
    Yogesh Sharma
    M.Sc. (Mathematics) Ph.D. (Education)
    Ramgarhia College of Education,
    Phagwara, Punjab, India

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