Online Seminar Series ON Programming in Mathematics Education

This series is co-hosted by Chantal Buteau (Brock University) and George Gadanidis (Western University).  It is supported in part by funding from the Mathematics Knowledge Network and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

Check out the scholarly events page for the SSHRC computational thinking project. It includes information about our current online seminar series, as well as past events Dr. Buteau and Dr. Gadanidis worked on with MKN.

Proceedings of the 2020 Online Seminar Series on Programming in Mathematics Education (June 19, July 3, 17 & 31, August 14 & 28) available at here!

Online Series Dates, registration and featured speakers below!

June 19, July 3, 17 & 31, August 14 & 28, 11:00 am EDT 

FREE registration  View the event poster here!

Featured Speakers 

Friday June 19, 2020
Celia Hoyles & Richard Noss

RESOURCES

1. UCL ScratchMaths Website
2. Module 5 – Investigation task for exploring mathematical relationships (Year 6) for teachers
3. Video journal of an Ontario graduate student (now teacher) using the Module 5 task
4. Research papers related to the seminar:
   • Making Constructionism Work at Scale: The Story of ScratchMaths
   • Computational Thinking for Mathematical Understanding: A Case Study of Exploiting Programming to Explore Face Value
   • Beyond Jam Sandwiches and Cups of Tea: An Exploration of Primary Pupils’ Algorithm-Evaluation Strategies
   • Bridging Primary Programming and Mathematics: Some Findings of Design Research in England

VIDEO RECORDING OF THE WEBINAR

 

Friday July 3, 2020
Krista Francis & Brent Davis

RESOURCES

1. Seminar presentation slides
2. Rich mathematical robotic tasks (Grades 4 – 9) for teachers
3. Research paper elaborating further the ideas presented in the seminar

VIDEO RECORDING OF THE WEBINAR

Friday July 17, 2020
Michelle Wilkerson & Edward Rivero

RESOURCES

1. Writing Data Stories Public Curriculum, including Introduction, Nutrition, and Climate Units  (lessons in English and Spanish)
2. Cereal dataset utilized in the seminar (in English and Spanish)
3. Newsletter article discussing the Writing Data Stories project 
4. Research paper elaborating further the ideas presented in the seminar 

VIDEO RECORDING OF THE WEBINAR

Friday July 31, 2020
Chronis Kynigos

RESOURCES

1. Seminar presentation slides
2. Online constructionist authoring systems:
   • MaLT2 for mathematical modelling (English manual)
   • ChoiCo for socio-scientific gaming (English manual)
3. Educational Technology Lab at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
4. Research papers relating to the seminar:
   • Programming Approaches to Computational Thinking: Integrating Turtle Geometry, Dynamic Manipulation and 3D Space
   • Modifying games with ChoiCo: Integrated affordances and engineered bugs for computational thinking
   • Constructionism: Theory of Learning or Theory of Design?

VIDEO RECORDING OF THE WEBINAR

Friday August 14, 2020
ricardo scucuglia

RESOURCES

1. Seminar presentation slides
2. GPIMEM (Research Group in Informatics, other Medias and Mathematics Education)
3. GeoGebra-based animations of fractals
4. Related research paper elaborating on the concept of music production and mathematics teacher education

VIDEO RECORDING OF THE WEBINAR

Friday August 28, 2020
Paul Drijvers

VIDEO RECORDING OF THE WEBINAR