Easter Conference 2009

Dates

06-09 April 2009

Swansea University is on the south coast of Wales overlooking the sea. The conference leads into the Easter weekend so you can extend your stay and enjoy Easter on the coast. Bringing your family is an option as there are areas where families can stay together including double, twin and adjacent room. The site is compact, with all areas of conference sited within a short walk. As well as the usual vast array of sessions, the workshop will be at the heart of all you do, open daily for you to go and chat, engage in rich mathematical activities, as well as finding and developing ideas to use with your learners.

The themes of the Easter Conference in 2009 are: Wales, The Beach, Celtic Knots, and Unknotting Mathematics with Learners.

Get Knotted

You can get knotting your self here with our Imagine Celtic Knotting project. Create a knot, take a screenshot and send it to us for the online gallery.

Interested?

Would you like to run a session? If so click here to complete the application form. The closing date for applications is the end of July 2008 and we will contact you during early September to confirm arrangements.

You can use the same form to pre-register your interest in attending or to tell us you would like to exhibit at the conference.

If you have any queries or questions please contact Karen Kirkley at the ATM office who will be happy to help.

Booking a place

Booking details will be here. In the meantime you can register your interest here...

Of all the People in all the World

New and exciting event at conference from Stan’s Café Theatre Company an exhibition called ‘Of all the People in all the World’ sponsored by NCETM. This must see event uses grains of rice to bring formally abstract statistics to startling and powerful life.

Of All The People In All The World (UK) uses grains of rice to bring formally abstract statisitcs to startling and powerful life.

Each grain of rice equates to one person and you are invited to compare the one grain that is you to the millions that are not. Over a period of days a team of performers carefully weigh out quantities of rice to represent a host of human statistics.

the populations of towns and cities
the number of doctors, the number of soldiers
the number of people born each day, the number who die
all the people who have walked on the moon
deaths in the holocaust

The statistics are arranged in labelled piles creating an ever changing landscape of rice. The statistics and their juxtapositions can be moving, shocking, celebratory, witty and thought provoking.

The show adapts to its setting: the country, city and building it is in. The amount of rice used varies according to which version is performed.

Sessions

Confirmed sessions and workshops include:

Bob Burn, Derek Ball, William Lacefield, Karen Wintle, Alan Bloomfield, David Fielker, Anne Watson and Nicola Clarke, John Mason, David Acheson, Alison Parish, Rod Bond, Jennifer Piggott and Charlie Gilderdale, Liz Woodham, Lynne McClure and Jenny Murray, Steve Hewson and Toni Beardon, Anthony Robin, Paul Stephenson, Karen Gladwin and Diane Cochrane, Helen Williams. Sample session titles include: Maths on the beach…rain or shine!, Proof by Chocolate, Necessary Movements of Attention, Dance and Maths, Desert Island Discs, People Maths: following a thread from the new book, a Welsh beach and other exotic locations, What kind of Game is Maths, Treacle wells and unknotting Qs

Sessions details will appear here. In the meantime you can register your interest in running a session here...

Exhibitor details will be here

If you are interested in exhibitign at Mathemateg Unknotted - let us know here...

Quotes from conference goers

“During the last week of the 2007 Easter break I was lucky enough to attend what can only be described as one of the most enlivening conferences/PD sessions that I could have imagined.”

“Message to teachers - beg, plead, whatever you need to do, just get yourself there!”

“Message to departments - you could pick up all your department training in one go – much cheaper than any alternative!”

“NQT’s blog - I had such fun, plus it saved me time because I nicked all the ideas/resources and used them in my planning. I also got the low down on things like functional maths and other changes which were useful to the department.”

“I’d learned such a lot already this year by working alongside other teachers but nothing could prepare me for this smorgasbord of mathematical and pedagogical delights, around 70 workshops held over just three days.”

Venue

Swansea University - Google map

Swansea University enjoys a prime position overlooking Swansea Bay which heralds the famously dramatic Gower coastline comprised of twenty-one bays and coves providing endless opportunities for sport and leisure pursuits.

Singleton Abbey is home to Swansea University’s marketing and administration. The University often holds prestigious events in the Abbey due to the splendour of its interior and its wealth of history. The Abbey is open once a year to the public.

One of two new state of the art buildings, the Digital Technium is at the heart of the campus. The building houses business incubator units, research and development facilities.

The six storey Institute of Life Science building opened in June 2007 and is home to over 200 hundred specialists and nearly 30 professor-led research groups. The Institute is the campus's largest investment and construction project in decades.

Main Speakers

Speaker details will be here. But so far we know that the opening speaker will Heather Mcleay and the closing speaker will be John Hibbs.

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