Inside Education On 103.2 Dublin City Fm

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney On this week's programme I bring you a special episode for Maths Week and to mark the seventh conference of Mathematics Education in Ireland held last weekend in Dublin City University's Institute of Education. First I speak to Dr. Siún Nic Mhuirí (from 1'43") from Dublin City University about the Maths4All project she's working on. Among the topics we discuss are: The Maths4All website and resources Alan Schoenfeld's Teaching for Robust Understanding (TRU) framework Challenges of developing video representations of teaching Pre-service teachers’ self-efficacy in teaching mathematics Her thoughts on this year’s Mathematics Education in Ireland conference A message about the importance of believing that maths is for all students Next I speak to Dr. Natthapoj Vincent Trakulphadetkrai from the University of Reading (from 15' 51") about using picture story books to teach mathematics.We discuss the following: His goal to have mathematics picture story books used in both prim