This event is part of the School of Education's Bristol Conversations in Education research seminar series. These seminars are free and open to the public.

Host: Centre for Teaching, Learning and Curriculum (TLC)

Speaker: Dr Sean Chorney, Simon Fraser University, Canada

In this talk, the speakers will share a pedagogical approach that seeks to improve the learning of mathematics. This approach involves asking students to use mathematical tools to explore social phenomena. The idea is that by using mathematical tools, they a better sense of the social issue, what it is and how it functions. My research, which follows from this pedagogy, looks at how students describe the social practice in mathematical terms as well as how they argue and reason about the practice. The speakers will share two examples, political districting and the draining of a lake, and share how students have used mathematics to make sense of these issues.

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