[Maths-Education] Cambridge Mathematics Education Colloquium

[Tim Rowland]

Dear Colleague

CAMBRIDGE MATHEMATICS EDUCATION COLLOQUIA

Next week's seminar is to be given by Janet Ainley, Liz Bills and Kirsty 
Wilson (University OF Warwick) on Monday, 8th March 2004 at 5.30 p.m., in 
Room 205 of the Mary Allan
Building at the Education Faculty Hills Road (Homerton) Site.

PURPOSEFUL ALGEBRAIC ACTIVITY

Tea and coffee will be available from about 5 o'clock.
For directions see http://www.maths-ed.org.uk/colloquia/ or email me.

All are welcome.

With best wishes,
Tim Rowland

Monday 8th March 2004 at 5.30 p.m., Room 205, Mary Allan Building, Hills 
Road
Janet Ainley, Liz Bills and Kirsty Wilson, University of Warwick
PURPOSEFUL ALGEBRAIC ACTIVITY

Purposeful Algebraic Activity, an ESRC funded project, is a longitudinal 
study of the development of pupils' algebraic activity in the early years 
of secondary schooling. The project aims to explore the potential of 
spreadsheets as tools in the introduction to algebra and algebraic 
thinking, making links to both the learning and teaching of arithmetic, and 
the development of traditional school algebra. In collaboration with 
primary and secondary teachers, we have designed and implemented a teaching 
programme of purposeful spreadsheet-based tasks. We have used a range of 
data collection methods to build a picture of pupils' development, 
including detailed lesson observations and interviews with target groups of 
pupils. In this seminar, we will discuss our empirical findings and invite 
feedback from colleagues.


Dr Tim Rowland
Faculty of Education
University of Cambridge
Hills Road Site
Cambridge CB2 2PH
England

Phone [44] [0]1223 507298
Fax [44] [0]1223 300982
email tr202@cam.ac.uk

Director of Studies in Mathematics
Homerton College

http://www.educ.cam.ac.uk/staff/rowland.html

http://www.maths-ed.org.uk/