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What can we learn from international comparison studies?
Monday 17 June
England has participated in international comparison studies for many years. Gabriel Lee explores what we have learnt from these studies and why anyone should care about the findings.
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Post-16 mathematics entries reach a record high in 2024!
Friday 31 May 2024
Ofqual has published the provisional number of entries for GCSE, AS and A level for summer 2024. Stephen Lee explains what these figures mean for post-16 mathematics.
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Children are doing it for themselves: Choice, interest and agency in early number learning
Wednesday 29 May 2024
Cath Gripton explains the complexity of teaching maths to young children, the concept of the child's mathematics and how this relates to her research project Counting Collections.
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Policy-based evidence making
Tuesday 21 May 2024
The Director of the Observatory offers comment on the relationship between evidence and policy in education, following the publication of a new report by the Royal Society and British Academy.
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Updating 'the Mathematics Pipeline'
Monday 20 May 2024
Researchers at the Observatory have just published a paper that updates 'the Mathematics pipeline' to consider how intersectional characteristcs affect maths participation.
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Understanding maths schools
Thursday 16 May 2024
The Observatory’s Andy Noyes and Chris Brignell recently attended governor’s day for U-Maths.
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Celebrating Women in Mathematics Day
Friday 12 May 2024
Katie Severn shares how the Observatory celebrates women in mathematics and the work we do to increase inclusion and accessibility of maths to all.
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Sampling schools
Friday 3 May 2024
David Sirl explains the sampling method behind our cohort studies.
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Learning maths - research in the classroom
Thursday 25 April 2024
Geoff Wake explores what research conducted by the Observatory can tell us about what works in the classroom.
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GCSE Maths resits - network events (roadshows)
Wednesday 24 April 2024
A series of roadshows is being held in April and May for teachers of GCSE Maths resit students to come together and hear from each other and organisations supporting improvements across the post-16 sector - at a location near you.
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£8m funding secured to establish Observatory for Mathematical Education at the University of Nottingham
Tuesday 07 November 2023
The University of Nottingham has secured a founding £8m grant from XTX Markets to establish the Observatory for Mathematical Education...
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