Department of Mathematics
Title : MACIMISE: Returning to my research roots.
| Speaker: Bill Barton Affiliation: The University of Auckland Time: 2pm Friday, 28 October, 2011 Location: 1-11 Short St, Building 810, Room 201 |
Abstract
| Recent involvement in a University of Hawaii project with students in Micronesia has thrown me back into the sort of work that began my research career: elementary mathematical language in an indigenous context. Twenty teachers spread over the islands of Micronesia (Yap, Truk, Pohnpei, etc) are developing primary units of work drawing on their cultural contexts. It is illuminating to return to a research area and to be forced to look back on work done 25 years ago from a new perspective. How has this field moved on (and how has it not); what do I retain from the conclusions drawn then (and what do I question); and what do I think should be done as a result of research (and what should we not do)? |
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Programmes and Centres
- New Zealand Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (NZIMA)
- Community for Understanding and Learning in the Mathematical Sciences (CULMS)
- Centre for Mathematical Social Science (CMSS)
- Department of Computer Science
- Department of Engineering Science
- Department of Physics
- Department of Statistics
- Auckland Bioengineering Institute
