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The committee exists to promote the professional development of teachers of mathematics.
Most recently, the Committee has been finding ways in which we can implement the Membership survey results and feedback.
If you would be interested in joining the Professional Development Committee please get in touch, email alice.hall@m-a.org.uk to find out more or tweet our PD Chair @pdLouiseP
8 June 2021
In this workshop, we will try some mathematical problems and think about the role that fluency with particular procedures might play in solving them. Is knowing a relevant procedure, and being able to perform it fluently, the key to solving mathematical problems? Or does it just ruin the problem for us by reducing it to something routine? If procedural fluency is important, then what else is also important? And how might we prepare students to be powerful problem solvers, without simply spoiling the problem by showing them how to do it?
Colin Foster is a Reader in Mathematics Education in the Mathematics Education Centre at Loughborough University. His research interests focus on the learning and teaching of mathematics in ways that support students’ conceptual understanding. He is particularly interested in the design and use of rich tasks in the mathematics classroom, and in finding ways to enable students to develop the necessary fluency in mathematical processes to support them in solving mathematical problems.
Date: Tuesday 8th June
Time: 4:30-6:00pm
Contact Lynne McClure (lm409@cam.ac.uk) for Zoom details