Round Table
Workshop: Analysis & Discussion
Workshop: Engaging in Activity
Research-Practice Seminar
Research Symposium
Saturday 24th October 2026
The Worcester room is located within the Orchard Hotel
Conference 1a
Round Table
Can research and dedicated programmes effect change to mathematics education at scale?
Conference 1b&c
Interactive Workshop
Double session
Learning through talk: the use of vertical non-permanent surfaces to support exploratory talk
Conference 2a
Research-Practice Seminar
Same subject, different stories: Mathematics teaching and learning across three teaching roles in Irish primary schools
How are teachers using a national PL offering?
Conference 2b&c
Research-Practice Seminar
Great Expectations: Ten Stories of Mathematics Leadership, Challenge and Change
Between ideals and realities: Navigating identity tensions in early career mathematics teaching
Conference 3a
Research-Practice Seminar
Data science and AI education: The present and the future
Curriculum sensitive AI-supported mathematical modelling: developing A levelconnected modelling activities
*Bring a laptop or tablet to this session
*Bring a laptop or tablet to this session
Conference 3b&c
Research-Practice Seminar
Mathematics Beyond A Level in teacher education: An undergraduate apprenticeship perspective
Scottish mathematics teachers conceptions of working with students on placement
Conference 4
Research-Practice Seminar
Where is our playful maths? An exploration into the use of play as a vehicle for mathematics
Co-designing new mathematical songs for learning and teaching mathematics aged 3-6: What we learnt and what we created?
*This session is being presented virtually
*This session is being presented virtually
Gallery 1
Interactive Workshop
Double session
Learning from and through Japanese problem solving
Gallery 2&3
Interactive Workshop
Double session
Mike’s stuff
Conference Theatre
Interactive Workshop
Double session
Preparing a paper for the proceedings
Worcester
Interactive Workshop
Double session
Transforming the culture of the mathematics classroom through engaging teachers with MathTASK resources
Conference 1a
Research Practice Seminar
The ‘mathematicalness’ of university disciplines: Alevel Maths students’ perspectives and choices
A data literate society without the fear factor
Conference 1b&c
Interactive Workshop
Conference 2a
Research-Practice Seminar
Student teachers’ ideas on teaching critical mathematics and social justice
From collaboration to classroom practice: Enhancing teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge for teaching algebra word problems
Conference 2b&c
Research-Practice Seminar
Cube fun
Conference 3a
Interactive Workshop
A blended learning approach to introductory calculus through GeoGebra
Conference 3b&c
Research-Practice Seminar
Beyond a checklist: Transforming primary mathematics evaluation through research-practice partnerships
Systems to enable practitioner research to influence policy – the case of NCETM’s Research & Innovation programme
Conference 4
Research-Practice Seminar
Teaching Effective Early Mathematics and Understanding in Primary (TEEMUP) Schools, an EEF funded CPD study – members of the Oxford University team present new quality improvement tools alongside the study’s findings and impact.
Lessons learned from the Counting Collections programme in 2025-26: a focus on pre-school settings
Gallery 1
Interactive Workshop
Gallery 2&3
Interactive Workshop
Conference Theatre
Interactive Workshop
Worcester
Interactive Workshop
10:45 to 11.15
Coffee andExhibitors
Conference 1a
Research-Practice Seminar
One task, multiple enactments:cross-border fractions reasoning in two primary classrooms
Using Games to Develop Multiplication Mathematically
Conference 1b&c
Interactive Workshop
Tasks not tests: Understanding the different structures of multiplication and division
Conference 2a
Interactive Workshop
Experience first, formalise later: teaching probability through experiment, simulation and inference
Conference 2b&c
Interactive Workshop
Socially just approaches to inclusion in mathematics classrooms
Conference 3a
Interactive Workshop
Mathematical Challenge celebrating 50 years
Conference 3b&c
Research-Practice Seminar
Tandem conceptual progression: A case study of the importance of answer-checking for a cognitively diverse student
Increasing the accessibility of problem solving by identifying valuable problem characteristics
Conference 4
Research-Practice Seminar
Natural language as the bridge between pedagogy and AI: Maths as the perfect / anti-perfect test case
Teaching the BIG ideas in school mathematics
Gallery 1
Interactive Workshop
Supporting a neurodiverse classroom to engage with mathematics
Gallery 2&3
Interactive Workshop
Progression in blockplay from birth to seven years: A learning trajectory for educators from ECMG
Conference Theatre
Research-Practice Seminar
Assessing creativity in mathematics Aantjes, Max “It’s not per se about the proof!”: The how and why of proving mathematical claims in low attainment groups
“It’s not per se about the proof!”: The how and why of proving mathematical claims in low attainment groups
Worcester
Interactive Workshop
Teacher analysis of students learning and views of progress within a Realistic Mathematics Education context
12:10 to 13:00
Keynote by Camilla Gilmore Conference Theatre
13:00 to 14:10
Lunch, Posters, Exhibitors, Networking
13:15-14:00 Early Childhood Maths Group (Gallery 2&3); Professional Development Providers Community (Conf 3a); Inclusion Community (Conf 3b&c)
13:15-14:00 Early Childhood Maths Group (Gallery 2&3); Professional Development Providers Community (Conf 3a); Inclusion Community (Conf 3b&c)
Conference 1a
Research-Practice Seminar
Unlocking statistical reasoning: Using assessment to influence pedagogy
Developing graph sense: Extending graph comprehension in the classroom
Conference 1b&c
Interactive Workshop
Beyond attainment: Improving girls’ participation in mathematics through practitioner research
Conference 2a
Interactive Workshop
Dial up the depth: Exploring mathematical structure
Conference 2b&c
Research-Practice Seminar
Stem sentences beyond over-ritualisation in primary mathematics classrooms
Reasoned choices: Teachers’ decision-making about manipulatives through a maths mastery lens
Conference 3a
Research-Practice Seminar
Supporting novice EAL teachers to use oracy techniques in the maths classroom
Towards six stages of mathematical thinking with multilingual learners
Conference 3b&c
Research-Practice Seminar
Improvisation as a tool for orchestrating mini-inquiries in the mathematics classroom
Strengthening mathematical habitus in schools: What is it and how do we do it?
Conference 4 Research-Practice Seminar
Designing proficiency-oriented assessment inventories in undergraduate mathematics
Flipped learning in university mathematics: An action research journey to a practical framework
Gallery 1
Interactive Workshop
Why do two negatives make a positive?
Gallery 2&3
Interactive Workshop
Thinking coherently about coherence
Conference Theatre
Research Symposium
'It’s all about structure': How the Primary Mastery Specialist Programme translates into teachers’ practice and children’s mathematics.
Worcester
Interactive Workshop
From function machines to functional programming and vice versa: a classroom study
Conference 1a
Round Table
Oracy in mathematics
Conference 1b&c
Interactive Workshop
Addressing the biggest inequality in the secondary maths classroom
Conference 2a
Interactive Workshop
Mathematical possibilities: The ‘how and why’ or the ‘why and how’ of designing tasks with variation in mind
Conference 2b&c
Research-Practice Seminar
Mathematics anxiety and enjoyment in university students: Exploring the impact of course type, mathematics A-level, biological sex & year of study
A landscape review into mathematical anxiety in mathematics undergraduate students
Conference 3a
Interactive Workshop
Stop and think. Bringing inhibitory control into your maths classroom
Conference 3b&c
Research-Practice Seminar
Educational resources for integrating digital technologies in the Brazilian mathematics curriculum
From add-on to embedded: Integrating technology into mathematics teacher professional development
Conference 4
Research-Practice Seminar
School-embedded teacher preparation: Partnerships that connect research and practice
Creating space for mathematical becoming in initial teacher training
Gallery 1
Interactive Workshop
Learning connections between numbers through Grid Number: an interactive software based on the 100 number square
Gallery 2&3
Interactive Workshop
Putting Project Zero Pedagogy of Play research recommendations into practice: incorporating mathematical games into lessons and encouraging mathematical games at home
Conference Theatre
Research Symposium
The effectiveness of teaching strategies and approaches in secondary mathematics: Evidence from a systematic review and meta-analysis
Worcester
Interactive Workshop
Making mathematics
16:00 to 17:00
Closing Plenary by Emily Farran Closing Remarks by BCME Chair Conference Theatre