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更多的年轻人热衷于将数学视为一项令人兴奋且相关的活动。 Funmaths 路演自 1999 年开始发展，当时正值该路演的主办方利物浦数学会成立一百周年。到目前为止，它由 10 个“盒子”组成，每个盒子包含 25 项活动。这些课程涵盖从小学高年级到六年级的所有级别。每项活动都是一个问题，安装在层压 A3 卡上，必要时使用适当的简单设备。这些问题适合混合能力的群体。它们有 CD，但路演会访问学校——上一届 PPE 颁奖的两年里，访问了英国（和马恩岛）的 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，有学生和教职员工的帮助，高年级学生也可以在与低年级学生的课程中提供协助。会议气氛始终十分热烈。在上届颁奖期间，由各级教师和学生组成的团队开发了一套全新的中小学VI表格盒子，并发布了包含问题的CD 2005 年 10 月。新提案计划推进这些发展以及其他完全出乎意料的发展，例如英语以外的语言（法语、威尔士语和苏格兰盖尔语刚刚试用）。到目前为止，外语试验已在英国进行，但包括法国和非洲法语国家在内的其他国家正在积极考虑中。预期的其他新方向包括一些活动的交互式 ICT 版本、针对函数数学（核心技能）的并行盒子以及以统计和概率为主题的盒子。该网页将据此开发。一个并行开发是利物浦数学俱乐部，其目标是取得 GCSE 成绩，其学校课程以问题为基础。数学俱乐部和路演在学校中一起进行时非常有效。再次使用学生助手，通常是研究生，非正式的气氛自然会导致对研究和数学家所做的事情的讨论。我们计划开发一些问题集，重点关注研究背后的想法，所有研究人员都与实用且易于理解的研究有着密切的联系。与其他组织、SETNET、专业学校信托基金（数学和数学）的联系一直在发展。语言）和皇家学院大师班尤其如此。这些联系将得到扩展，其他联系将随着新的国家数学教学卓越中心而建立。虽然过去三年的众多发展都是团队努力的结果，但大部分行政管理和学校访问都是由博士完成的伊恩·波蒂斯（Ian Porteous）是利物浦大学的退休教职员。伊恩（Ian）想扮演一个不太活跃的角色，这个建议是由一名经理（研究助理）来接替这些关键角色。合作伙伴是利物浦数学会、 Funmaths Roadshow 的发起者和所有者以及利物浦希望大学。尽管 LivMS 与默西塞德郡的教师有着密切的联系，但它在新材料的开发中发挥着至关重要的作用。 LHU 是初级教师培训的主要提供者，并通过其合作学校及其现任和前任 PGCE 学生在教学行业拥有广泛的人脉网络。路演 CD 已在 LHU 制作，ICT 材料的开发也从那里开始。