Craig is a secondary school maths teacher, based in the North West of England. He is the Maths Adviser to the TES, the creator of mrbartonmaths.com, host of the Mr Barton Maths Podcast, and the co-founder of diagnosticquestions.com. He also runs the (non maths!) blogs 555words.com and songsineverskip.com. His novels are Secrets and Mince Pies,Tell me a Story and The Cambridge Diaries: A Tale of Friendship, Love and Economics. On Twitter he is @mrbartonmaths.

We discuss making rich resources for the mathematics classroom as well as the state of mathematics education in the UK and the US.

Dan Meyer taught high school math to students who didn’t like high school math. He has advocated for better math instruction on CNN, Good Morning America, Everyday With Rachel Ray, and TED.com. He currently studies math education at Stanford University, speaks internationally, and works with textbook publishers, helping them move from education’s print past to its digital future. He was named one of Tech & Learning’s 30 Leaders of the Future and an Apple Distinguished Educator. He lives in Mountain View, CA.

Here is a short interview with Dan Meyer following his opening session at the 2014 NCTM Regional Conference in Indianapolis

Malcolm Swan is Professor in Mathematics Education at the University of Nottingham and has been a leading designer-researcher since he joined the faculty in the Shell Centre for Mathematical Education in 1979. His interests lie in the design of teaching and assessment, particularly the design of situations which foster reflection, discussion and metacognitive activity, the design of situations in which learners are able to construct mathematical concepts, and the design of assessment methods that are balanced across learning goals – and thus have a positive backwash effect on teaching and learning. Diagnostic teaching, using ‘misconceptions’ to promote long term learning, has been an ongoing strand of this work.

He has led design teams on a sequence of internationally funded research and development projects including work for UK examination boards and the US NSF-funded Balanced Assessment project and the Mathematics Assessment Resource Service (MARS). He has designed courses and resources for the professional development of teachers, evaluating their impact on student learning and on the beliefs and practices of experienced teachers. These materials have been sent by the UK Government and the Bowland Trust to all schools and other relevant educational institutions. In 2008 he was awarded the ISDDE Prize for educational design for The Language of Functions and Graphs.

Day 2 from this year’s Twitter Math Camp.

Discussions on sessions attended included:

Day 2 from this year’s Twitter Math Camp.

Discussions on sessions attended included:

Day 1 from this year’s Twitter Math Camp.

Discussions on sessions attended included:

A short review of New York’s Museum of Math (MoMath) following a recent visit.

This week we are joined by well known blogger and math teacher from Southern California, Fawn Nguyen. Known for her engaging lesson activities and honest blogposts, Fawn talks to us about how to create and execute rich and engaging lesson activities in the math classroom. We also discuss her inspiration for creating the website visualpatterns.org

For this special episode we discuss the book ‘Playing with Math‘ edited by California Math Teacher and blogger, Sue VanHattum. We discuss details of the book (to be released, fall 2014), the inspiration behind the book as well as the questions it poses and the implication it has for progressive mathematics education.

This Episode we are joined by director of NRICH, Lynne McClure.

NRICH is an organization dedicated to the use of rich mathematics in the classroom. In 15 years, they have built up a strong global following and now get over 500,000 hits on the website nrich.maths.org every month.

Lynne has been director at NRICH for the last 4 years and is president of the UK’s Mathematical Association. She talks to us about the best way to use NRICH activities in the classroom as well as recent developments in mathematics education.