Speakers and Panellists
Professor
Alex Halliday, Physical Secretary and Vice President
of the Royal Society is Interim Chair of ACME. He chaired the
conference.
ACME
members facilitated workshops throughout the
conference.
- Moving
towards a long-term strategic plan for Initial Teacher
Education of teachers of mathematics (Dr Sue Gifford and
Professor Jeremy Hodgen)
- Realising the aims of
the National Curriculum in primary assessment (Anne White)
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The professional development learning journeys of teachers of
mathematics (Robert Barbour)
- Mathematics for all to
18? (Dr Mary McAlinden)
Political Keynote Speaker
Nick Gibb MP, Minister of State for
Schools
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Nick Gibb was appointed Minister of State at the Department for
Education on 15 July 2014. He was elected Conservative MP for
Bognor Regis and Littlehampton in 1997. Nick went to school in
Maidstone, Leeds and Wakefield before going on to study law at
Durham University. He was formerly a chartered accountant
specialising in corporate taxation with KPMG. He served as Shadow
Minister for Schools from 2005 to 2010 and as Minister of State for
Schools from May 2010 to September 2012.
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Question Time Panel
Chaired by Simon Gallacher, Senior Consultant, The
Nuffield Foundation and Principal Lecturer, University of
Roehampton
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Simon Gallacher is a Senior Consultant
working with the Nuffield Foundation. Although beginning life as a
chemist, since 1992 Simon has immersed himself in the world of
education research and policy, working for (amongst other) the
Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA), the Wellcome
Trust, the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) and
Teach First. Simon has long-standing interests in the use of data
in education research from his early value-added days with the
Centre for Evaluation and monitoring (CEM) and also in the
development of science and mathematics teachers (as part of the
Royal Society 'Vision' project). At the Nuffield Foundation,
amongst other projects, he has been conducting a review of the
£19.5m Q-Step Programme as it enters its third full year of
operation and will be working on a paper on post-16 mathematics in
England across in the next few months.
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Panellists
Dan Abramson, Head of King's College London
Mathematics School
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Dan Abramson is the founding Head Teacher at King's College
London Mathematics School, which is for students aged 16-19 with a
particular aptitude and enthusiasm for mathematics. The school
opened in September 2014 and its first cohort have just completed
A-levels in Maths, Further Maths and Physics. Dan studied
mathematics at Cambridge University and was Head of Mathematics at
Highgate School, where he gained a reputation for curriculum
development, for training teachers and as a champion of
challenging mathematical opportunities for bright children
from all backgrounds.
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Lynne McClure, Director, Cambridge
Mathematics
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Lynne chaired the teams advising ministers on the content of
the new English National Curriculum. She was a member of ACME from
2009 to 2013 and remains on the Outer Circle. Lynne is a Chartered
Maths Teacher and an invited Fellow of the IMA. She was delighted
to be the President of the Mathematical Association in 2014/15, and
takes up the position of Chair of ISDDE in 2017.
Lynne's
previous role was Director of the prestigious NRICH project (nrich.maths.org), based in the
University's Centre for Mathematical Sciences. She retains links
there as she remains PI on the new DfE-funded
UndergroundMaths (undergroundmathematics.org), an
innovative A-level project. Her current role is as Director of the
new Cambridge Mathematics project (www.cambridgemaths.org).
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Professor Terezinha Nunes, Professor of
Educational Studies, University of Oxford
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Professor Terezinha Nunes investigates how children learn
mathematics in and out of school. Her work on "street mathematics"
in Brazil uncovered many features of children's and adults'
informal knowledge, and her subsequent work in the UK investigates
how this informal knowledge can be used in education. With her
research team, she developed many mathematical interventions under
the umbrella of the research programme Reasoning
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Professor Sir Adrian Smith FRS, Vice-Chancellor of
the University of London
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From 1 September 2012 Professor Smith was appointed
Vice-Chancellor of the University of London. He was
previously Director General, Knowledge and Innovation in
BIS. Professor Smith is a past President of the Royal
Statistical Society and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society
in 2001 in recognition of his contribution to statistics. He is
Deputy Chair of the UK Statistics Authority and was appointed Chair
of the Board of the Diamond Synchrotron at Harwell in August
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Mathematics Keynote Speaker
Dr Vicky Neale, Whitehead Lecturer at Mathematical
Institute and Balliol College, University of
Oxford
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Dr Vicky Neale is the Whitehead Lecturer at the Mathematical
Institute and Balliol College, University of Oxford. Her role
combines teaching undergraduates with work on public engagement
with mathematics. She has been a guest on several BBC Radio 4
programmes, and regularly gives talks and workshops in schools
around the country and at summer schools for high achieving
teenagers. |