Funmaths Roadshow and Liverpool Maths Club: Further Expansion and Developments

Funmaths 路演和利物浦数学俱乐部：进一步扩展和发展

• 批准号: EP/D068355/1
• 负责人: P Giblin
• 金额: $ 15.22万
• 依托单位: University of Liverpool
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2006 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FD068355%2F1
• 关键词: Funmaths; Roadshow; Liverpool; Maths; Club

The bottom line of the project is that more young people need to be enthused into considering mathematics as an exciting and relevant activity. The Funmaths Roadshow has been developing since 1999, the centenary year of the Liverpool Mathematical Society, which owns the Roadshow. It consists of, so far, 10 'boxes' of 25 activities each. These are at all levels from upper primary to VI form. Each activity is a problem, mounted on laminated A3 card, with appropriate simple equipment if necessary. The problems are suitable for mixed-ability groups. They are available on CD but the Roadshow visits schools---over 150 schools all over the UK (and the Isle of Man) in the two years of the previous PPE award, involving well over 10,000 pupils as well as hundreds of teachers. At these sessions there are student and staff helpers, and also older pupils can assist at sessions with younger ones. The atmosphere in the sessions is always highly enthusiastic.During the previous award an entirely new set of boxes for VI form in schools and colleges was developed, by a team consisting of teachers and students at many levels, and the CD containing the problems was released in October 2005. The new proposal plans to carry forward these developments, and others which were entirely unexpected such as languages other than English (French, Welsh and Scots Gaelic are just being trialled). So far the foreign language trials have been in the UK but other countries, including France and francophone Africa, are under active consideration. Other new directions anticipated are interactive ICT versions of some of the activities, parallel boxes aimed at functional mathematics (core skills) and boxes with statistics and probability as their theme. The webpage will be developed in line with this.A parallel development is the Liverpool Maths Club which aims at about GCSE attainment and whose sessions in school are problem-based. Maths Club and Roadshow are very effective when taken together into a school. Again student helpers, often postgraduates, are used, and the informal atmosphere leads naturally to discussion of research and what mathematicians do. We plan to develop some of the problem sets to be focussed on ideas underlying research, and all the Investigators have close links with research of a practical and accessible nature.Links have been developing with other organizations, SETNET, The Specialist Schools Trust (mathematics and languages) and the Royal Institution Masterclasses particularly. These links will be extended and others built with the new National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics.While the numerous developments over the past 3 years have been the result of team effort, much of the administration and school visiting has been done by Dr Ian Porteous, a retired member of staff at the University of Liverpool. Ian would like to take a less active role, and this proposal is for a manager (research assistant) who will take over these crucial roles.The partners are the Liverpool Mathematical Society, originators and owners of the Funmaths Roadshow, and Liverpool Hope University. The LivMS, though its strong links with teachers on Merseyside, is crucially involved in the development of new materials. LHU is a major provider of initial teacher training and through its Partnership Schools and its current and former PGCE students has an extensive network of connections in the teaching profession. The Roadshow CD has been produced at LHU and the development of ICT materials is beginning there.

该项目的底线是，需要让更多的年轻人热衷于将数学视为一项令人兴奋和相关的活动。Funmaths路演自1999年以来一直在发展，这一年是利物浦数学学会成立一百周年，该学会拥有路演。到目前为止，它由10个“盒子”组成，每个盒子里有25个活动。这些课程包括从小学高年级到中六年级的所有级别的学生。每一项活动都是一个问题，安装在叠层A3卡上，必要时配有适当的简单设备。这些问题适用于混合能力群体。他们有光盘，但路演走访了学校-在上一届PPE奖的两年里，英国(和马恩岛)有150多所学校，涉及超过10,000名学生和数百名教师。在这些课程中，有学生和工作人员的帮助，年龄较大的学生也可以在与年龄较小的学生的课程中提供帮助。在上届颁奖期间，由各级师生组成的团队开发了一套全新的中小学和大学中六年级盒子，并于2005年10月发行了包含问题的CD。新的提案计划推进这些发展，以及其他完全出人意料的发展，比如英语以外的语言(法语、威尔士语和苏格兰盖尔语正在试验中)。到目前为止，外语测试一直在英国进行，但其他国家，包括法国和非洲法语国家，正在积极考虑中。预期的其他新方向是一些活动的互动信通技术版本、针对函数数学(核心技能)的平行方框以及以统计和概率为主题的方框。该网页的开发将与此相一致。利物浦数学俱乐部也是一个类似的开发项目，其目标是获得普通中等教育证书，其在校课程是以问题为基础的。数学俱乐部和路演结合在一起进入一所学校是非常有效的。再一次，学生助手，通常是研究生，被使用，非正式的气氛自然导致了关于研究和数学家做什么的讨论。我们计划开发一些问题集，集中于研究背后的想法，所有调查人员都与实用和易懂的研究有密切的联系。特别是与其他组织，SETNET，专门学校信托基金(数学和语言)和皇家学会大师班的联系一直在发展中。这些联系将得到扩展，其他联系将与新的国家数学教学卓越中心建立起来。尽管过去3年的众多发展都是团队努力的结果，但大部分行政和学校访问都是由利物浦大学退休员工伊恩·波蒂厄斯博士完成的。伊恩想要扮演一个不那么积极的角色，这项提议是为了让一位经理(研究助理)来接管这些关键角色。合作伙伴是利物浦数学学会、Funmath路演的发起人和所有者，以及利物浦希望大学。虽然LivMS与默西塞德郡的教师关系密切，但它在新材料的开发中发挥着至关重要的作用。路易斯安那州立大学是初级教师培训的主要提供者，通过其伙伴学校及其现任和以前的PGCE学生在教师专业领域建立了广泛的关系网。路演光盘已经在路易斯安那州立大学制作完成，并开始在那里开发信息和通信技术材料。