Event Programme

(subject to change)

  Saturday 24th October 2026
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Session 5

09:00 to 09:50

Round Table:

Granger, Helen; Lewis, Matt; Coles, Alf; Ford, Jennie; Turvill, Rebecca

Can research and dedicated programmes effect change to mathematics education at scale?

Interactive workshop:

Engaging in mathematical activity

Biza, Ireme; Nardi, Elena

Transforming the culture of the mathematics classroom through engaging teachers with MathTASK resources

Double session

Research Practice Seminar:

Cull, Grainne

Same subject, different stories: Mathematics teaching and learning across three teaching roles in Irish primary schools

Oakes, Dominic

How are teachers using a national PL offering?

Research Practice Seminar:

Mackle, Kieran

Systems to enable practitioner research to influence policy - the case of NCETM’s Research & Innovation programme

Birkhead, Amy

Between ideals and realities: Navigating identity tensions in early career mathematics teaching

Research Practice Seminar:

Button, Tom; Butler, Rob

Data science and AI education: The present and the future Fu, Arya Curriculum-sensitive AI-supported mathematical modelling: developing A level-connected modelling activities

Research Practice Seminar:

Crisan, Cosette; Geraniou; Eirini; Macey, Darren

Mathematics Beyond A Level in teacher education: An undergraduate apprenticeship perspective

Inglis, Andrina

Scottish mathematics teachers conceptions of working with students on placement

Room 7 Room 8 Room 9 Room 10 Room 11  

Research Practice Seminar:

Jayson, Natalie

Where is our playful maths? An exploration into the use of play as a vehicle for mathematics

Rycroft-Smith, Lucy

Co-designing new mathematical songs for learning and teaching mathematics aged 3-6: What we learnt and what we created?

Interactive workshop: Engaging in mathematical activity

Watson, Anne,

Mike’s stuff

Double session

Interactive workshop:
Engaging in mathematical activity

Wake, Geoff; Trundley, Ruth; Leakey, Sarah

Learning from and through Japanese problem solving

Double session

Interactive workshop:
Engaging in mathematical activity

Eade, Phil; Allen, Stuart; Marsh, Natalie; Crozier, Katie; Gee, Catherine; Burke, Stefanie

Learning through talk: the use of vertical non-permanent surfaces to support exploratory talk

Double session

Interactive workshop:
Analysis & Discussion

Ingram, Jenni; Kimber, Elizabeth; Baldry, Fay; Skelton, Jo; Macmillan, Emily

Preparing a paper for the proceedings

Double session

 

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Session 6

09:55 to 10:45

Interactive workshop:
Engaging in mathematical activity

Martin, David

Cube fun

Continued from session 5

Research Practice Seminar:

Omoniyi, Adebayo Akinyinka; Jita, Prof Loyiso Currell; Jita, Prof Thuthukile

Socioeconomic disparities in parental support for flipped mathematics learning: Evidence from Nigerian secondary school settings

Jagdev, Manjinder

Student teachers’ ideas on teaching critical mathematics and social justice

Research Practice Seminar:

Norris, Jennifer

The ‘mathematical-ness’ of university disciplines: A-level Maths students’ perspectives and choices

Hilliam, Rachel

A data literate society without the fear factor

Interactive workshop:
Engaging in mathematical activity

Waterfield, Sam

A blended learning approach to introductory calculus through GeoGebra

Research Practice Seminar:

Parkes, Sam; Robinson, Paula

Beyond a checklist: Transforming primary mathematics evaluation through research-practice partnerships

Townsend, Viv

Systems to enable practitioner research to influence policy – the case of NCETM’s Research & Innovation programme

Room 7 Room 8 Room 9 Room 10 Room 11  

Research Symposium:
Chair: Eastaway, Rob Eastaway, Rob; Briggs, Tom

How history can enrich maths lessons

Continued from session 5

Continued from session 5

Continued from session 5

Continued from session 5

 
10:45 to 11.15 Coffee andExhibitors
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Session 7

11:15 to 12:05

Interactive workshop:
Engaging in mathematical activity

Inglis, Andrina

Mathematical Challenge celebrating 50 years

Interactive workshop: Engaging in mathematical activity

Borthwick, Alison; Blinko, Janine; Burke, Stefanie; Williams, Helen; Huyton, Pip

Tasks not tests: Understanding the different structures of multiplication and division

Interactive workshop:
Engaging in mathematical activity

Wright, Pete; Goodland, Jane; Tierney, Nic; Jagdev, Manjinder; Parkes, Sam; Mio, Cristina; Kaur, Balbir

Socially just approaches to inclusion in mathematics classrooms

Interactive workshop:
Engaging in mathematical activity

Nye, Zoe

Experience first, formalise later: teaching probability through experiment, simulation and inference

Research Practice seminar:

Kasimu, Osman

From collaboration to classroom practice: Enhancing teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge for teaching algebra word problems

Thein, Khin Aye Chan; Li, Hui

Researching early numeracy in Myanmar: Methodological reflections on research instruments adaptation

Interactive workshop:
Analysis & Discussion

McCormick, Tom

Supporting a neurodiverse classroom to engage with mathematics

Room 7 Room 8 Room 9 Room 10 Room 11 Room 12

Interactive workshop:
Engaging in mathematical activity

Gifford, Sue; Lancaster, Andrea; Taylor, Robin

Progression in blockplay from birth to seven years: A learning trajectory for educators from ECMG

Research Practice seminar:

Watkins, Joe

Natural language as the bridge between pedagogy and AI: Maths as the perfect / anti-perfect test case

Foster, Colin

Teaching the BIG ideas in school mathematics

Research Practice seminar:

Thouless, Helen

Tandem conceptual progression: A case study of the importance of answer-checking for a cognitively diverse student

Southall, Ed

Increasing the accessibility of problem solving by identifying valuable problem characteristics

Research Practice seminar:

Hatisaru, Vestige

Assessing creativity in mathematics Aantjes, Max “It’s not per se about the proof!”: The how and why of proving mathematical claims in low attainment groups

Interactive workshop:
Analysis & Discussion

Hough, Sue

Teacher analysis of students learning and views of progress within a Realistic Mathematics Education context

 

12:10 to 13:00 Keynote by Camilla Gilmore
Banqueting Suite
13:00 to 14:10 Lunch, Posters, Exhibitors, Networking
AMiE MIC meetings to be confirmed
  Room 1 Room 2 Room 3 Room 4 Room 5 Room 6

Session 8

14:10 to 15:00

Research Practice seminar:

Macey, Darren

Unlocking statistical reasoning: Using assessment to influence pedagogy

Nye, Zoe

Developing graph sense: Extending graph comprehension in the classroom

Interactive workshop:
Analysis & Discussion

Hoskyns-Staples, Lou; Hackett, Helen

Beyond attainment: Improving girls’ participation in mathematics through practitioner research

Interactive workshop:
Engaging in mathematical activity

Perring, Richard; Granger, Helen

Thinking coherently about coherence

Research Practice seminar:

Kassim-Lowe, Tazreen

Stem sentences beyond over-ritualisation in primary mathematics classrooms

Sheard, Simon

Reasoned choices: Teachers’ decision-making about manipulatives through a maths mastery lens

Research Practice seminar:

Skelton, Jo; Robertson, Faye

Supporting novice EAL teachers to use oracy techniques in the maths classroom

Skelton, Jo; Barker, Nathan

Towards six stages of mathematical thinking with multilingual learners

Interactive workshop:
Engaging in mathematical activity

Macmillan, Emily; Ingram, Jenni

Why do two negatives make a positive?

Room 7 Room 8 Room 9 Room 10 Room 11  

Research Practice seminar:

Shah, Dr Rehan; Sivagnanamoorthy, Mr Ilanthiraiyan

Designing proficiency-oriented assessment inventories in undergraduate mathematics

Sagredo-Sanchez, Lucia

Flipped learning in university mathematics: An action research journey to a practical framework

Research Practice seminar:

McIvor, Nick

Improvisation as a tool for orchestrating mini-inquiries in the mathematics classroom

Harris, Sophie

Strengthening mathematical habitus in schools: What is it and how do we do it?

Interactive workshop: Engaging in mathematical activity

Bee, John

Dial up the depth: Exploring mathematical structure

Research Symposium

Townsend, Viv; Shearman, Jen; Coles, Alf; Morgan, Debbie; Hayden, Eleanor; Hake, Claire

'It’s all about structure': How the Primary Mastery Specialist Programme translates into teachers’ practice and children’s mathematics.

Interactive workshop:
Analysis & Discussion

Benson, Ian; Blatherwick, Sam; Hunt, Richard

From function machines to functional programming and vice versa: a classroom study

 
   
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Session 9

15:05 to 15:55

Research Practice seminar

Stramel, Janet

School-embedded teacher preparation: Partnerships that connect research and practice

Tozer, Karen; Hobday, Elizabeth

Creating space for mathematical becoming in initial teacher training

Interactive workshop:
Analysis & Discussion

Austin, Graeme

Addressing the biggest inequality in the secondary maths classroom

Interactive workshop:
Analysis & Discussion

Jacques, Laurie

Mathematical possibilities: The ‘how and why’ or the ‘why and how’ of designing tasks with variation in mind

Research Practice seminar

Dowker, Ann; Douglas, Tyra

Mathematics anxiety and enjoyment in university students: Exploring the impact of course type, mathematics A-level, biological sex & year of study

Crossman, Ric; Shah, Rehan

A landscape review into mathematical anxiety in mathematics undergraduate students

Interactive workshop:
Engaging in mathematical activity

Xenidou-Dervo, Iro; Trundley, Ruth; Bahnmueller, Julia; Gilmore, Camilla

Stop and think. Bringing inhibitory control into your maths classroom

Interactive workshop:
Engaging in mathematical activity

Beardon, Toni; Clausen-May, Tandi

Putting Project Zero Pedagogy of Play research recommendations into practice: incorporating mathematical games into lessons and encouraging mathematical games at home

Room 7 Room 8 Room 9 Room 10 Room 11  

Round Table:

Hawkins, Jane; Ingram, Jenni; Coles, Alf; Woollacot, Beth

Oracy in mathematics

Interactive workshop:
Engaging in mathematical activity

Hewitt, Dave; Hall, Jonny

Learning connections between numbers through Grid Number: an interactive software based on the 100 number square

Research Practice seminar:

Bottura de Barros, Ana Carolina

Educational resources for integrating digital technologies in the Brazilian mathematics curriculum

Vernon, Natalie; Button, Tom

From add-on to embedded: Integrating technology into mathematics teacher professional development

Research Symposium

Chair: Hodgen, Jeremy Marks, Rachel; Geraniou, Eirini; Foster, Colin

The effectiveness of teaching strategies and approaches in secondary mathematics: Evidence from a systematic review and meta-analysis

Interactive workshop
Engaging in mathematical activity

Kathotia, Vinay; Rumberlow, Michael; Megroureche, Charlotte

Making mathematics

 
16:00 to 17:00

Closing Plenary by Emily Farran
Closing Remarks by BCME Chair
Banqueting Suite