A one-day conference on Dyscalculia in Further/Higher Education was held at Loughborough University on Wednesday 10th April 2013. The programme organised by Clare Trott included keynote addresses from Dr David Grant and Simon Drew, demonstrations of current research in the field and a series of case studies.
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CETL-MSOR Conference 2013 – Call for Abstracts
CETL-MSOR Conference 2013- Next Steps will take place from Tuesday 10th to Wednesday 11th September 2013 at Coventry University. The aim of this conference is to promote, explore and disseminate emerging good practice and research findings in Mathematics and Statistics support, teaching, learning and assessment. It will explore ways in which learning and teaching in… Continue Reading
Workshop on accessible learning resources in mathematics – 7 January 2013
The University of Bath hosted a workshop on Accessible Learning Resources in mathematics on 7th January 2013. This workshop aimed to bring together practitioners and researchers with an interest in the technical challenges of producing accessible learning resources for mathematical subjects. Delegates were warned that talks would be of a technical nature, assuming knowledge of at least (but… Continue Reading
Publication of evaluation of mathematics support centres – a review of the literature
The report from the sigma funded project to complete a ltierature review to examine how maths support centres have been evaluated and reported in published papers has now been published. This was completed by Janette Mathews, Loughborough University working with Duncan Lawson, Coventry, and Tony Croft, Loughborough. The report can be accessed here Hard copies… Continue Reading
Undertaking Pedagogic Research in the HE STEM Disciplines – 17/18 December 2012
Sigma was a partner in an event organised on the 17-18 December 2012 in Leeds entitled ‘Undertaking Pedagogic Research in the HE STEM Disciplines’. This was a follow-on to an event that took place in June 2012 and was aimed at those who are both new to pedagogic research and who wish to explore their… Continue Reading
Call for presentations/workshops – supporting students to develop statistics skills
The sigma Northwest North Wales regional maths support hub is organising a day of workshops and presentations on ways in which we can effectively support the development of students statistics skills on Friday 18th January 2013 at the University of Liverpool. We are interested in work that supports statistics based subjects directly as well subjects… Continue Reading