School mathematics in the digital age

Join Professor Alison Clark-Wilson as she discusses her research in schools that explores the challenges and opportunities for digital technologies that shake the foundations of school mathematics education.

Capturing her professional and academic work over the past 25 years, Alison gives her perspective on the changing nature of digital tools that offer innovative ways of doing, learning and assessing school mathematics.

Mathematics has been, and continues to be, a high-stakes subject in school curricula around the world. Over time, different mathematical tools have been innovated in classrooms, with some also being exnovated (phased out) as “better” ones have come along. But who decides? and how can we stay abreast of digital innovations that move faster than most education systems.

Alison will draw from her design-based research studies that have sought to understand the challenges of sustaining and scaling innovative classroom practices to help activate system-wide developments of school mathematics education in the digital age.

This in-person event will be particularly useful for researchers, teachers, students, technology developers and policy makers.

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