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1 Introduction 1.1 Welcome 1.2 Practical Arrangements 1.3 Apologies for Absence Peter Ransom (Deputy – Tom Roper); Mike Ellicock; Sarah Old 2 Minutes of the meeting held on Tuesday 18 February 2020 2.1 Approval  Page 3 2.2 Matters arising not elsewhere on the agenda  Page 3 3 Reports from Trustees 3.1 Chair 3.2 Deputy Chair 3.3 Secretary  Page 7 3.4 Treasurer  Page 8 4 Reports from Committees 4.1 BCME Committee 4.2 GCSE Working Group 4.3 ICME Bursaries Committee  Page 9 4.4 MMSA Special Interest Group 6 Reports from Participating Bodies 6.1 Adults Learning Mathematics [Jeff Evans] 6.2 Association of Mathematics Education Teachers [Helen Farmery]  Page 15 6.3 Association of Teachers of Mathematics [Heather Davis] 6.4 British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics [Jeremy Hodgen] 6.5 British Society for the History of Mathematics [June Barrow-Green] 6.6 Edinburgh Mathematical Society [tba] 6.7 Heads of Departments of Mathematical Sciences [Jan van den Heuvel] 6.8 Institute of Mathematics and its Applications [Paul Glaister]  Page 16 6.9 London Mathematical Society [Kevin Houston]  Page 17 6.10 Mathematical Association [Tom Roper - deputy]  Page 18 6.11 Mathematics in Education and Industry [Charlie Stripp] 6.12 National Association for Numeracy and Mathematics in Colleges [Graham Griffiths] 6.13 National Association of Mathematics Advisors [Matt Lewis] 6.14 National Numeracy [Mike Ellicock]  Page 19 6.15 NRICH [Ems Lord]  Page 19 6.16 Operational Research Society [Evelyn Hardy]  Page 19 6.17 Royal Academy of Engineering [tba] 6.18 Royal Statistical Society [Carole Haynes]  Page 20 6.19 Scottish Mathematical Council [Carol Lyon]  Page 20 6.20 STEM Learning [Steve Lyon] 6.20 United Kingdom Mathematics Trust [Hannah Telfer] 6.21 Wales Institute of Mathematical and Computational Sciences [Sofya Lyakhova] JMC General Meeting – 2 June 2020 – Agenda Page 1 of 23

7 Reports from Observing Bodies 7.1 Department for Education [Alex Smith] 7.2 Department of Education [Julie Harris] 7.3 Education Scotland [Andy Brown] 7.4 National Centre for the Excellence of Teaching Mathematics [Sue Madgwick]  Page 21 7.5 Office for Standards in Education [Emma Gregory] 7.6 Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation [Sarah Old] 7.7 The Royal Society [Helen Harth] 7.8 The Royal Society Advisory Committee on Mathematics Education [tba] 7.9 Scottish Qualifications Authority [Sue Pope] 7.10 Welsh Government Education Department [John Mason] 8 Reports from meetings

9 Discussion of Reports  Page 28 Discussion of those matters where discussion has been requested in a report or where a request has been received by Thursday 28 May 2020. 10 Discussion

10.1 Covid-19  Page 22 10.2 Report update: The purpose, role and use of additional ‘extension’ papers for entry to mathematics courses at English universities 10.3 Report update: A comparative analysis of 5-18 education across the four countries of the UK  Page 22 11 Any other business not elsewhere on the agenda Matters for consideration should be submitted to the Chair before the day of the meeting. 12 Conclusion 13 Dates of future meeting • Thursday 12 November 2020 at 11.00am at The National Council for Voluntary Organisations. • Tuesday 16 February 2021 at 11.00am at The National Council for Voluntary Organisations • Date and venue for June 2021 to be arranged

2 Minutes of the meeting held on Tuesday 12 November 2019  Agenda

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The Joint Mathematical Council of the United Kingdom A Charitable Incorporated Organisation Registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales, Registered Charity Number: 1171223 Registered Office: De Morgan House, 57-58 Russell Square, London, WC1B 4HS Minutes of the General Meeting held at 11 a.m. on Tuesday 18 February 2020 at the National Council for Voluntary Organisations Present Officers Chair Andy Noyes Deputy Chair Alice Rogers Secretary Chris Chipperton Treasurer Jennie Golding Representatives of Participating Bodies Adults Learning Mathematics – Association of Mathematics Education Teachers – Association of Teachers of Mathematics Heather Davis British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics Jeremy Hodgen British Society for the History of Mathematics June Barrow-Green Edinburgh Mathematical Society – Heads of Departments of Mathematical Sciences Jan van den Heuvel Institute of Mathematics and its Applications Paul Glaister London Mathematical Society Kevin Houston The Mathematical Association Peter Ransom Mathematics in Education and Industry Charlie Stripp (deputy pm: Claire Baldwin) National Association for Numeracy and Mathematics in Colleges Graham Griffiths National Association of Mathematics Advisors Matt Lewis National Numeracy – NRICH – Operational Research Society Evelyn Hardy Royal Academy of Engineering – Royal Statistical Society Carole Haynes Scottish Mathematical Council Carol Lyon STEM Learning Steve Lyon United Kingdom Mathematics Trust – Wales Institute of Mathematical and Computational Sciences Sofya Lyakhova Co-opted Members Immediate Past Chair – UK Representative to the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction – Representatives of Observing Bodies Department for Education [England] – Department of Education [Northern Ireland] Susan O’Boyle (deputy) Education Scotland Andy Brown National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics Sue Madgwick Office for Standards in Education – The Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation Sarah Old The Royal Society Lynne McClure (deputy) The Royal Society Advisory Committee on Mathematics Education Anthony Tomei Scottish Qualifications Authority Sue Pope Welsh Government Education Department –

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1 Introduction 1.1 Welcome The Chair welcomed everyone present and especially those who were attending as deputies. Representatives were thanked for the high number of reports that had been received.

1.2 Practical Arrangements The Secretary went through practical arrangements for the day including the procedure for emergency evacuation. 1.3 Apologies for absence Apologies for absence were received from: Helen Farmery (AMET), Charlie Stripp – pm only (MEI), Ems Lord (NRICH), Hannah Telfer (UKMT), Alex Smith (DfE), Julie Harris (DoE), Helen Harth (Royal Society), and John Mason (Welsh Government Education Directorate). 2 Minutes of the meeting held on Tuesday 12 November 2019 2.1 Approval The minutes of the meeting held on Tuesday 12 November 2019 were approved. All actions had been completed. The Chair noted that RS/ACME ‘Mathematics Curriculum Futures’ programme should now simply be the ‘Mathematics Futures’ programme.

3 Reports from Trustees 3.1 Chair The Chair reported that he is engaged in ongoing discussions with RS ACME. The roles of both JMC and ACME are evolving. A significant question exists as to what ‘added value’ JMC brings. Focus needs to be given to the nature and direction of travel that JMC takes and how this relates to other organisations. Within this sit issues such as the possible production of a calendar of events and BCME. The Trustees will be having an ‘away day’ in September to consider these issues. 3.2 Deputy Chair As reported. 3.3 Secretary The Secretary emphasised the upcoming vacancies for Deputy Chair and Treasurer. Calls for nominations will go out next month. Nominations will be required by the end of April with elections taking place at the June meeting. 3.4 Treasurer The Treasurer thanked representatives for the payment of most subscriptions. Outstanding subscriptions were being followed up. The Treasurer reported that the Trustees had decided to open a 95 day account which currently offers 1% interest. Most of the (restricted) BCME money and the balance of the existing deposit account will then be transferred to this account. 4 Reports from Committees 4.1 BCME Committee The Chair stated that a previous review and discussions had led to a new format being proposed for BCME 10 due in 2022. This had been presented to, and supported by, the Council in previous meetings. However, multiple attempts to identify a BCME Chair or to establish a collaborative approach with another organisation have been unsuccessful. The Trustees recognise the changing landscape and are considering a more radical shift in the Congress while still keeping within the JMC’s role. However, it now seems highly unlikely that there will be a BCME in 2022 despite the best efforts of Council representatives to find a way forward. During the discussion that followed, the following were amongst the comments made and questions raised: • Is there a sense that there is a lack of interest in attending such events? • One forthcoming SMC conference has attracted 250 delegates. • MA conference numbers have improved against 2 years ago, but a radically different approach has been taken. One day conferences have been affected by other events run by organisations such as La Salle. • Later bookings were increasingly noticeable raising increased concerns about financial viability. • Increasing pressures on teachers work against the desire to give up holiday time and weekends. • Many teachers are working during Easter to run revision sessions. • MEI still attracts good numbers to events, but do not ever have certainty about this. JMC General Meeting – 2 June 2020 – Agenda Page 4 of 23

• Social media has had a significant impact. • Hubs have filled the space for many. • While there is concern about generating sufficient numbers, BCME 9 was seen as too big in some ways. The number of late applications was a concern. 4.3 ICME Bursaries Committee With one exception, ICME Bursaries have been paid to applicants. With the current health concerns in China, it was questioned what would happen in the event of ICME being cancelled. It was recognised the money has to be paid up front and that it was likely to be lost. 5 Reports from Participating Bodies The Chair reminded Council that he had previously encouraged reports to include any topics that would benefit from wider discussion. While the reports gave a clear sense of the community’s landscape, he questioned whether there is anything that would be useful to know that isn’t included. The possibility of the Secretary inviting bullet points of issues to be added to reports when the call goes out; a template wasn’t seen as a way forward. Equally, prompts or broad categories could be suggested on a changing or rotating basis. Reflections and comments included: • There may be ‘hot topics’ that, for various reasons, are not included in reports. • Topics might be identified through surfacing of key issues in reports. • Is there a place for a report template or prompts? • Reports are very different. • Many of the issues are profound and obvious, e.g. teacher recruitment. • There is a lack of knowledge as to what each of JMC’s constituent bodies does, their reach and size. • There might be some value in speaking to (and beyond) reports but this can make managing the flow of the meeting more challenging. • Would it be useful to have selected people speaking to reports, and on what basis? • Could ‘horizontal reporting’ be used with categories listed for response? Categories could be on a changing basis or on rotation. • In order to highlight key issues, there could be an invitation for a ‘news item’ to be added. • Is there a need for meetings? • Is the council too big? • There is a need for more short discussion opportunities within meetings. Trustees will consider how best to incorporate ‘horizontal reporting’ categories or prompts in the call for papers put out by the Secretary before each meeting. Action: Trustees; Secretary 5.11 Mathematics in Education and Industry The July 2020 conference will be in Bath (not Keele). 5.20 STEM Learning Steve Lyon highlighted the difficulty in identifying mathematics STEM Ambassadors as opposed to those from other fields who apply mathematics such as engineers. Lynne McClure stated that a similar problem exists in relation to RS partnership grants. 6 Reports from Observing Bodies

7 Reports from Meetings 8 Discussion of Reports There were no matters for discussion from the reports. 9 Maths Week England Andrew Jeffrey offered reflections on MWE 2019 and some thoughts regarding the 2020 event: • His involvement followed widespread and longstanding discussions about starting a MWE and guesting at Maths Weeks in other jurisdictions. • He ‘jumped in’ but doesn’t want to be the central figure responsible for the event. While he regards himself as strong on ideas and initiative, he does not consider himself to be a natural manager. • The aims have been publicised and are in the report which will be circulated. Action: Secretary • The National Numeracy report was a key document in formulating ideas for the event. • MWE needs to be simple, free to access and have on-line access.

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• He is grateful to partners and sponsors. • There is a small financial residue. • What went well: > Social media campaign > Level of participation – 200 000 students > The ‘buzz’ around the event > 104 schools responded to the survey with the majority giving a rating of good or better • What could be better: > An increased number of partners > More sponsorship > An expansion and improvement of the website > Changes to the video delivery (the level of diversity was good) > Quiz – develop daily questions for each year group > Better reach The discussion that followed included: • Congratulations to Andrew for the success that had been achieved. An initial concern that MWE could be a distraction in a busy landscape proved not to be the case. • Recognition that coordination (currently Andrew) is needed. • What was the involvement of other organisations? How could the LMS be involved? • Will MWE be broadened beyond schools; to under-represented groups; with more outreach? Yes, it is hoped so, but all of this requires money and personnel. • Universities are well placed to engage, but Andrew has a lack of experience with this sector. Can universities take in students/pupils? They already do, but at times that don’t necessarily match MWE. • Universities have a significant number of individuals engaged in popularising mathematics who could be utilised. • Supermarkets and shopping centres are prime sites for being involved. • In Scotland, the Maths Week coordinator is now employed by National Museums rather than government. • A change of culture needs to be developed whereby activities are ongoing rather than event weeks. • Poster competitions already exist (e.g. University of Greenwich). Can this be utilised? • There is a need for more organisations to sign up to MWE and for more active participation in the creation of activities. • There are adult numeracy issues (cf. National Numeracy). Numeracy needs the same status as literacy. How can major broadcasters be brought onboard and things such as public lectures be incorporated? • MWE taking place in November is the ‘least bad’ timing. • How can JMC support/help? The majority of JMC organisations hadn’t signed up to MWE 2019 which made it difficult to lend JMC’s name to the event. JMC representatives are to be asked by email if they wish this support to be given from 2020. Representatives will also be asked if they wish their email address to be passed to Andrew Jeffrey so that direct communication can take place. Action: Secretary • Can opportunity areas be harnessed? Lynne McClure, now an NN trustee, is to raise the issue with National Numeracy. Action: Lynne McClure On behalf of JMC, the Treasurer offered Andrew Jeffrey a ‘big vote of thanks’ for everything he had taken on and achieved. 10 Any other business not elsewhere on the agenda

11 Discussion: Developments in 14-18 mathematics qualifications The Chair provided an introduction to the topic with reference to developments that have occurred from the Smith report ‘Making mathematics Count’ in 2005 to the present. Against this background, three presentations were given: • Higher Applications of Mathematics in Scotland: Sue Pope (SQA) • GCSE Mathematics – Numeracy in Wales: Nicola Thomas and Alan Edwards (Estyn) • Research into Core Maths in England: Matt Homer and Rachel Matthieson (University of Leeds) The PowerPoints used are to be circulated to members of JMC. Action: Secretary Small group discussion was used to formulate questions and comments, which included:

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• Wales: Why is the GCSE called Mathematics-Numeracy? There is a link to the Literacy and Numeracy framework. • England: The naming/signalling of qualifications is an issue. • There are issues around the continuity of qualifications. (Scotland is addressing this with Applications of Mathematics appearing at National 4, National 5 and Higher.) • England as a jurisdiction is very different to the rest of the UK due to being one of the largest educational systems in the world. • The other jurisdictions do not have competing awarding organisations: Scotland (SQA) Northern Ireland (CCEA), and Wales (WJEC). • A long-term view needs to be taken with the development of qualifications. • Policy issues are key and, for example, led to the failure of the GCSE linked pair. • There are professional development issues around new qualifications. In Scotland, there is no government funding attached. However, universities are very supportive. In Wales, professional development is delivered through four regional consortia. Support is funded. • The Higher Applications of Mathematics seeks to use technology in problem solving and modelling. https://www.sqa.org.uk/sqa/93396.html • In Wales, a high proportion of students sit both GCSE mathematics and GCSE mathematics- numeracy, which reflects a policy desire. There are issues around early entry, but these are being countered. • There is a desire in Scotland for a move to assessment for the new Higher in Applications of Mathematics question paper to being totally online. The presenters were thanked for their attendance and for their part in leading the discussion. 12 Conclusion The Chair thanked everyone present for their contributions and closed the meeting. 13 Dates of future meetings Tuesday 2 June 2020 at The London Mathematical Society, De Morgan House, 57-58 Russell Square, London WC1B 4HS (deadline for papers: Tuesday 19 May 2020) Thursday 12 November 2020 at The National Council for Voluntary Organisations, Regents Wharf, 8 All Saints Street, London N1 9RL (deadline for papers: Thursday 29 October 2020) Tuesday 16 February 2021 at The National Council for Voluntary Organisations, Regents Wharf, 8 All Saints Street, London N1 9RL (deadline for papers: Tuesday 2 February 2021)

These meetings will begin at 11 a.m.  Agenda

3 Reports from Trustees

3.3 Report from the Secretary  Agenda

Following the February General Meeting, representatives were contacted by email to i) ascertain whether they wished for JMC to give its support to Maths Week England, and ii) whether they wished for their contact details to be passed to Andrew Jeffrey so that they could receive updates on MWE. A majority of representatives voted for JMC to give MWE its support; there were no dissenting votes. Consequently, I wrote to Andrew with this information and to give him use of the JMC logo for the MWE website. He is extremely grateful for the support of JMC and asked for his thanks to be passed Council. Contact details have been passed to Andrew of those who expressed a wish to be updated about MWE. The contract with IONOS for the old BCME website (www.bcme.org.uk) and associated email addresses has now been cancelled with a saving in payments from next year. The account JMC were wrongly advised to open for data storage has now been cancelled and all payments refunded. The JMC website is still causing problems in terms of access for administration. Unfortunately, the lockdown and social distancing rules prevented one or two avenues of support I was hoping to access. Enquiries were made to IONOS regarding their website templates. To access these a new domain would have to be purchased with significant monthly payments. Additionally, JMC webmail would have to either continue on the existing domain or started afresh on the new domain.

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Consideration is still being given to how best proceed with getting a fully operational and updated website. In March, Trustees passed a resolution to transfer BCME and some other money not likely to be spent in the near future, to a new notice deposit account. Subsequent events overtook that resolution, with initial difficulty in enacting it and then a significant drop in interest rates. Consequently, Trustees passed a second resolution to transfer the main surplus funds from BCME to our already-existing Teachers' Building Society account. On 15 March, calls for nominations for the posts of Deputy Chair and Treasurer went out in accordance with the constitution. These closed on 30 April 2020.  Agenda

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3.4 Report from the Treasurer  Agenda

It is normal practice to propose a budget for the following JMC year (1 August to 31 July) at the June JMC meeting, following discussion with the trustees. For information, the budget for 2019-20, in £, is given below, followed by the state of accounts as of 11.05.20:

Opening 13481.23 BUDGET 2019-20 in £ balance 01 August 2019 Income Expenditure Subscriptions JMC rep expenses 600.00 2019-20 12460.00 Officer and co-opted expenses 2000.00** (assumed JMC Meetings (3) 5000.00 complete) Insurance 400.00 Website 2300.00^ CfSA 200.00 Jurisdiction matrix project 3000.00^^ HE admissions test exploration 5000.00^^ GCSE sub-committee 800.00 Meeting speaker expenses 1600.00 Total 25, 941.23 Total 20900.00

** Officers held an additional meeting in London in September, for strategic discussions. ^ includes contingency for web presence one-off upgrade. ^^one-off projects, maximum spend: scope tbc.

Opening 13481.23 Actual accounts in £ as of 11.05.20, including balance money committed to projects, due shortly Income Expenditure* Subscriptions JMC rep expenses 235.10 2019-20 (3 Officer and co-opted expenses 1775.95 OBs still 10850.00 Catering trustees mtg September 66.78 outstanding) JMC Meetings (2) 2742.98 Insurance 400.00 Website 167.62 CfSA subscription 200.00 Jurisdiction matrix project 3000.00 HE admissions test exploration 5000.00 GCSE sub-committee 177.15 Meeting speaker expenses 369.65 Total 24331.23 Total 13335.23*

*Only 2 physical meetings held in 2019-20: one meeting costs ~£2000 including eligible trustees’ expenses. We did not do a web upgrade as planned, saving another ~£2000 on budget. GCSE s/c activity was constrained by other events. We shall therefore have spent well below expectations. JMC General Meeting – 2 June 2020 – Agenda Page 8 of 23

Budgetary decisions for 2020-21 should be made in the light of knowledge about our current bank balances: Balance in JMC current account, 08.05.20, allowing for project commitments: £10996.00 Balance in JMC deposit account, 08.05.20: £16,713.76 (Balance in Teachers BS account, 08.05.20: £45,188.88 (restricted fund for BCME related activity)) (Balance in BCME current account, 08.05.20: £573.96 (restricted fund))

The coming year brings a raft of unknowns, and it is highly likely that face to face activity will again be reduced below historic levels. Subject to trustee agreement, I propose the following budget for 2020-21:

Opening ~24,000 Proposed (cautious) BUDGET 2020-21 balance in £ Income Expenditure Subscriptions JMC rep expenses 600.00 2019-20 Officer and co-opted (assumed 11200.00 expenses 3000.00* complete and Catering trustees Sept at same rate JMC Meetings (3) as 2019-20) Insurance 5000.00 Website 400.00 CfSA 2300.00^ Projects 200.00

GCSE sub-committee 8000.00^^ Meeting speaker 600.00 expenses 1600.00 Total 11200.00 Total 21700.00**

*including September meeting for strategic discussions, and assuming 3 f2f Council meetings ^Planned website upgrade: trustees think this should be a priority ^^ tbc: ** Total expenses £13700 if no project expenditure. Discussion: Above, we see a planned annual deficit of up to ~£2500 if no projects, which is fine, with the balance in the deposit account, but up to £10,500 deficit if we allow £8000 for projects as in 2019- 20. I think this is OK given the likelihood of reduced travel and f2f meetings next year. Had we gone ahead with a physical meeting in June, I would have been recommending a modest increase in subscriptions.  Agenda

4 Reports from Committees

4.1 BCME Committee  Agenda

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4.2 GCSE Working Group  Agenda

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4.3 ICME Bursaries Committee  Agenda

Bursaries Earlier in the year ten bursaries of varying amounts were awarded to applicants expecting to go to ICME in July this year. However, on March 14 this year the conference was postponed and will now take place on July 11th—18th, 2021 in Shanghai. One of the bursary recipients has returned their bursary as future participation is unknown at this point in time, and Chris Budd will write to the other recipients to see what their position is. We understand that some may have already paid registration fees and/or air

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fares, so may not be in a position to return bursaries and may not be able to participate next year, so we have to be flexible about the situation. Working Party Back in early March, before the postponement of ICME was known, we withdrew our National Presentation (NP) application, because at that point it was clear that some of us with underlying health issues, or advice from our institutions, would not be attending. At that point we mentioned that we would consider submitting a NP application for ICME-15 in Australia in 2024. On April 16 we received an email from the International Programme Committee (IPC), which contained the following paragraph: You proposed a National Presentation of UK to ICME-14, and your proposal has been approved by IPC. As mentioned above, we maintain this approval to the delayed congress, and we are looking forward to the fabulous demonstration of the National Presentation in the July 2021 after your elaborate design and long-term preparation. In order for us to have exact information about your willing to present in the 2021 congress, we would very much like to have a confirmation email from you at your earliest convenience (not later than June 30 this year). Chris Budd is currently trying to arrange a Zoom meeting between him, Peter Ransom, Kevin Houston and Michael Grove to determine what response we should make. Peter will not be going to China next year for various reasons, so we need to consider whether someone else could supervise a NP over there, and whether there would be enough people to make this viable. JMC will be kept in touch with any decisions made in due course. Peter Ransom, Chair of ICME-14 Working Party, 16 May 2020  Agenda

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4.4 MMSA Special Interest Group  Agenda

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6 Elections

5.1 Election of Deputy Chair  Agenda

At the close of nominations, Dr Noel-Ann Bradshaw was the only nominee for Deputy Chair of the JMC and so is elected unopposed to serve from the end of the Annual General Meeting on 12 November 2020. Noel-Ann Bradshaw was nominated by the IMA with the support of ATM, BSHM, HoDoMS, MA, NANAMIC, STEM Learning and RSS, and has stated her willingness to stand.

Nominee’s statement

I am currently Head of School of Computing and Digital Media (including mathematics) at London Metropolitan University and have worked (albeit briefly in some cases) in all levels of mathematics education from pre-school through to HE. I have been Vice President Communications for the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications and am currently a member of the IMA’s Higher Education and Service Area Committee (HEdSA), and part of the Big Mathematics Initiative’s Implementation Group looking at the recommendations from the Bond review. I am passionate about the need to increase the mathematics pipeline in the UK through promotion of the subject in general and to raise awareness of the benefit of mathematics education. I see the need to increase children’s love and understanding of mathematics at all stages of their education by supporting mathematics teachers in the important work that they do.

Despite enjoying mathematics at school and studying it at A-level it wasn’t until 2004 that I undertook my mathematics degree. Whilst my children were young, I worked as a teaching assistant in a primary school, as a numeracy specialist at a pre-school and then as an adult numeracy teacher. Realising I needed a mathematics degree in order to become a qualified teacher I applied to my local university (University of Greenwich) where I took an entrance test and started a BSc Mathematics Degree in 2004. During my degree I took part in the Undergraduate Ambassador Scheme (initiated by Simon Singh and others in 2002) where I obtained experience of teaching mathematics in a Secondary School. After graduating (2007) I stayed on at Greenwich to start a PhD in computational mathematics, despite a successful application to IoE for a PGCE Secondary. I ended up becoming more interested in the teaching and learning of mathematics and obtained a Professional Doctorate in mathematics education from the University of Middlesex in 2019. JMC General Meeting – 2 June 2020 – Agenda Page 10 of 23

As a lecturer at Greenwich, as well as teaching on many mathematical modules, I ran the Undergraduate Ambassador Scheme (UAS) working closely with about 15-20 local Schools (secondary and primary) and, as a result, built a strong relationship with many teachers. I have given many mathematics outreach talks at schools and universities to groups of school children of all ages and two Royal Institution Masterclasses. In 2014 I was chosen to be one of the tutors on the online numeracy course Citizen Maths, which I subsequently spoke about at a Mathematics Association (MA) conference. I was delighted to return to the MA conference in 2017; this time as the initial activity giving a tour of Royal Holloway University dressed as Florence Nightingale! More recently I have been asked to be the President of the General Section of the British Science Association (BSF) giving the Presidential Address on Florence Nightingale – although it has just been announced that the Festival has been postponed to 2021.

In my role at the IMA I instigated an annual 16+ day of lectures held in various venues including UCL, Kings College London, Greenwich, Loughborough and I also helped to run several two-day festivals for schools and family groups at the University of Greenwich attended by over 1000 primary and secondary aged school children.

I have been an active member of the IMA Maths Careers website committee which provides essential information on mathematics and associated careers to teachers at both primary and secondary level and have contributed to several FMSP (now AMSP) CPD events for teachers and outreach activities for students.

Having seen first-hand, and indeed contributed to, all levels of UK mathematics education and worked with many member organisations of JMC I feel I am well placed to understand the needs of all the different areas and thus be able to understand the concerns faced by those working across the sector and the transition of students between stages of education. I am active on social media, particularly Twitter, which I primarily use to promote mathematics-related posts to a mix of mathematics teachers, HE professionals and non-mathematicians.

Curriculum Vitae

Present Employment

2019 – to date Head of School Computing and Digital Media, London Metropolitan University

Previous Employment

2018 – 2019 Senior Data Scientist, Sainsbury’s Argos 2014 – 2018 Director of Employability for Faculty of Architecture, Computing and Humanities, University of Greenwich 2012 – 2018 University Teaching Fellow, University of Greenwich 2011 – 2014 Admissions and New Arrivals Tutor, Principal Lecturer University of Greenwich 2010 – 2011 Senior Lecturer full time, University of Greenwich 2009 – 2010 Senior Lecturer part time, University of Greenwich 2007 – 2009 Part time lecturer and research student, University of Greenwich 2004 – 2004 FE Numeracy Teacher, SE Surrey College 2002 – 2004 Teaching assistant Folly’s End Primary School, Croydon 2000 – 2002 Pre-School Teacher, Little Ark West Wickham 1987 – 2000 Fundraising and setting up numerous education projects on estates in SE London

Selected External Positions 2020 – to date President General Section British Science Association 2019 – to date External Examiner BSc Mathematics programmes at Sheffield Hallam University 2019 – to date Invited member of Big Mathematics Implementation Group (formerly Bond Implementation Group) 2019 – to date Invited member of Pedagogical Research Group in maths and statistics support 2017 – 2018 External Examiner BSc Mathematics programmes at Keele University 2016 – 2020 Vice President (Communications) Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) 2015 – 2018 Journal editor for MSOR Connections (previously published by HEA) 2014 – 2019 Citizen Maths – to-camera tutor and project spokesperson 2013 – 2018 External Examiner BSc and MSc Mathematics at University of Wolverhampton 2013 – 2016 Hub Coordinator for SE Sigma Network (providing maths support for non-mathematics students in HE) JMC General Meeting – 2 June 2020 – Agenda Page 11 of 23

2014 – 2015 Programme Committee Member for IMA International Conference on Barriers and Enablers to Learning Maths: Enhancing Learning and Teaching for All Learners

Qualifications and professional 2017 – 2019 DProf Public Works in HE Innovation, Middlesex University 2017 Awarded Chartered Mathematician status 2013 Awarded Senior Fellowship of HEA 2007 – 2015 MPhil Mathematical Computation, University of Greenwich 2004 – 2007 BSc Mathematics, University of Greenwich First class with IMA prize and University prize for outstanding achievement 2004 Stage 1 teaching certificate – adult education 2002 Level 3 NVQ Early years education 1984 – 1987 HND Catering and Institutional Management, Polytechnic of North London

Membership of Professional Bodies and Learned Societies

Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (Fellow 2007 – to date) 2019 – to date Member of Higher Education Service Area Committee (HEdSA) 2019 – to date Reviews editor for Mathematics Today 2018 – to date Member and past Chair of Marketing and Communications Task and Finish Committee 2016 – 2020 Vice President Communications and member of Council and Executive Board 2015 – to date Member of Maths Careers committee 2012 – 2015 Council member 2011 – to date Vice Chair of London branch. 2010 – 2020 Member of Communications Committee (Chair from 2016-2020) Operational Research Society (Member 2007 – to date) 2010 – 2016 Vice Chair OR in Schools Taskforce British Society for the History of Mathematics (Member 2005 – to date) 2007 – 2014 Council Member 2009 – 2013 Hon Treasurer 2007 – 2009 Meetings Secretary Leonardo da Vinci Society (Member 2011 – to date) 2012 – 2016 Hon Treasurer British Society for Research in Mathematics Education (Member 2015 – to date) London Mathematical Society (Member 2010 – to date) Research My research interests include mathematics education, Florence Nightingale’s use of data and various aspects of machine learning and artificial intelligence. Some publications are below:

Maths Education: Bradshaw, N., (2019) Innovations Designed to Improve the Student Experience for Mathematics Students in Higher Education. DProf. Middlesex University. Rowlett, P., Webster, K., Bradshaw, N. and Hind, J., 2019. Evaluation of the Maths Arcade initiative at five U.K. universities. In: The Mathematics Enthusiast. 16(1&2), Article 23. Bradshaw, N., (2017) The Maths Arcade: A Tool for Supporting and Stretching Mathematics Undergraduates. In: L. Wood, Y. Breyer, eds. Success in Higher Education. Singapore: Springer. pp.95- 110. Bradshaw, N., (2015) The use of video and mathscasts to engage and support the learner and promote mathematical thinking. In IMA International Conference on Barriers and Enablers to Learning Math, Glasgow. Florence Nightingale: Bradshaw, N., (2018) Florence Nightingale (1820 – 1910): A pioneer of data visualisation. In: J.L. Beery, S.J. Greenwald, J.A. Jensen-Vallin and M.B. Mast eds. Women in Mathematics, Association for Women in Mathematics Series, vol 10. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. Ch. 11. pp. 197-217. Optimisation: Bradshaw, N., (2015) Multi-Objective Optimisation with Financial Applications. MPhil. University of Greenwich. JMC General Meeting – 2 June 2020 – Agenda Page 12 of 23

Selected Presentations and Outreach As well as the events below I have given numerous popular talks about mathematics and careers in mathematics to groups of school children of different ages. Some of these have been organised by individual schools or part of more general events run by universities or outside organisations. Sep 2019 Guest speaker at RSS meeting entitled Statistics VS Data Science: Is it the Emperor’s New Clothes? Jun 2019 Invited speaker at Master’s Seminar on Maths Careers at The Worshipful Company of Educators Jun 2019 Invited presentation at IMA HE T&L workshop University of Middlesex Apr 2019 Invited presentation at Heads of Department of Mathematical Sciences (HoDoMS) Conference, University of Birmingham Feb 2019 Invited Keynote at undergraduate conference Tomorrow’s Mathematicians Today, University of Greenwich Dec 2018 Research talk on Nightingale at Oxford History Colloquium Oct 2018 Florence Nightingale appearance and presentation by invitation at Lea Hurst Hampshire Collegiate School at event to promote maths to girls organised by FMSP Sep 2018 Invited Keynote on Employability at CETL-MSOR Conference, Glasgow University Jul 2017 Invited presentation at IMA 16+ day of mathematics, Loughborough University Mar 2017 Florence Nightingale’s guided tour of Royal Holloway University (invited contribution to MA conference for teachers) Feb 2016 Royal Institution Masterclass, Maths and Magic, University of Greenwich Dec 2015 Royal Institution Masterclass on Hypatia (in costume), Kings College London  Agenda

5.2 Election of Treasurer  Agenda

At the close of nominations, Dr Jennie Golding was the only nominee for Treasurer of the JMC and so is elected unopposed to serve from the end of the Annual General Meeting on 12 November 2020. Jennie Golding was nominated by the MA with the support of ATM and IMA, and has stated her willingness to stand.

Statement in support of nomination as the Treasurer of the Joint Mathematical Council I have been JMC treasurer since November 2017, and would bring continuity and familiarity with the role. I have past experience as charity trustee/treasurer for a voluntary organisation with annual turnover of ~£400k. I am currently chair of the JMC’s GCSE sub-committee, and am the link trustee on MMSA, the collaborative forum for all five JMC classroom-facing participating bodies. I have been a proactive and solution-focused participant in several of the professional bodies around the JMC table. I have a broad and balanced overview of the mathematics education and education research landscapes in the UK, though particularly in England, and bring a long history of involvement in mathematics education policy, teacher development, curriculum and assessments, including as vice-chair of ACME. I am keen to work with the current trustees to develop JMC’s roles for the future, including as both a mutually supportive forum for the mathematics education community and an effective influencer in addressing the challenges facing mathematics education in the UK. CV Dr Jennie Golding [email protected] https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=JGOLD18

A solution-focused academic working at the nexus of mathematics education policy, practice and research 5-18. Jennie moved to fulltime HE work after a career spent teaching and supporting teacher development across pre-university education. She is an active contributor to national and international mathematics education policy, curriculum and assessment, including teacher, teacher educator and education research development. Her research is largely collaborative and classroom-close, using mixed methods to study the mathematics education policy-practice interface. Academic/Professional qualifications

• SFHEA, FIMA • King’s College, University of London, EdD • NCSL National Prequalification for Headship NPQH; Ofsted AI training • Open University Advanced Diploma in Mathematics Education with Distinction • University of Reading, PGCE with Distinction and University Education prize JMC General Meeting – 2 June 2020 – Agenda Page 13 of 23

• University of Oxford, MSc by research Mathematics; BA/MA (Hons) Mathematics

Professional history General: 2012 – present: Associate Professor in mathematics education, UCL Institute of Education: dept ethics lead, doctoral supervision, research, consultancy and knowledge transfer. 2004-2012: Head of Mathematics then Deputy Head outreach 11-18 comprehensive, including 0.4 leading Primary/Secondary mathematics teacher development across the South-West; school Inspection. Ofsted and internal evaluations of teaching repeatedly ‘outstanding’. 1992-2004: Mathematics teacher then Advanced Skills Teacher, London fringe comprehensive 1980-2012: Teacher of mathematics 5-18; Primary and Secondary teacher education/development and M-level teaching at Reading, Exeter, Open University and Deakin (Melbourne) universities. 1979-2012: Examiner, KS2, KS3, O Level, GCSE and A Level mathematics 1977-1981: Mathematics teacher, boys’ grammar school. Policy/curriculum and assessment work: 2018 on: Member of Royal Society ACME 11-16 contact group and post-16 working group on GCSE resits. 2017 on: Treasurer, trustee, and GCSE SIG chair, Joint Mathematical Council for the UK 2016 on: Member of the APPG (All-Party Parliamentary Group), the Teaching Profession 2016-17: President, The Mathematical Association 2014 on: Member of SATTAG, the national Supply and Training of Teachers Advisory Group 2011-2016: Member of DfE Mathematics Expert Group advising on all issues relating to 4-18 mathematics including development of 2014 National Curriculum, teacher education, pedagogy and assessment 2012- : Member of Ofqual Mathematics expert panel 2010- : Advice to House of Commons Education select committee on 8 occasions 2010-2013: Member and vice-chair of Advisory Committee for Mathematics Education: see www.acme-org.uk 2008- : Short-term curriculum and assessment advisory and teacher development work for governments in Nigeria, Uganda, Kenya, South Africa, Jordan, Armenia, St Helena and India (mathematics 3-18) 1992-2010: Advisory work for the QCA and its predecessors (mathematics 3-18 and gifted and talented education), including for 1999 and 2007 National Curricula and mathematics assessments 5-18. Current projects: • PI: Role, purpose and impact of additional mathematics papers for university entrance (2020) • PI, academic lead and external validation for Pearson 5-18 large-scale, longitudinal mathematics efficacy projects (2016-2021): A Level study and Power Maths study ongoing; GCSE, KS3/4 and Abacus studies complete. • Mathematics specialist, TIMSS 2019 Study team (Pearson-UCL, 2018-2020) • Mathematics specialist, PISA 2021 Study team (Pearson-OUCEA, 2019-2021)

Recently-completed projects: • PI: Pathways to success in mathematics: the contribution of a mathematics specialist school (2018- 19) • PI: METEA (Mathematics Education to Empower Africa) teacher educator development in East Africa: distance learning affordances and constraints for the context (2018-19) • IoE Supporting Advanced Mathematics: researching teacher preparation, enactment and effectiveness teaching advanced school mathematics (2014-18) • PI: Comparing pedagogies and effectiveness of live online and face to face teacher development (2016-18)  Agenda

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6 Reports from Participating Bodies

6.1 Adults Learning Mathematics  Agenda

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AMET acts weekly as disseminator of non-commercial information that is relevant to mathematics education. We forward to members and their networks information on policy developments, consultations, research opportunities and knowledge exchange/CPD opportunities. Members have commended us on often being first to get information to them! AGM held on 28th February 2020: New officers elected for Chair (Fiona Curtis, Reading University), Secretary (Ashley Compton, Bishop Grosseteste University) and Treasurer (Christine Packer, University of Chester). They will shadow and take on their full roles in October 2020. Committee continues to meet online regularly and face to face at least annually. Our second joint two-day conference with NAMA ‘Making Connections’ was held in February at Manchester University. The event was well attended and very positively received by all delegates and we thank our keynote speakers Geoff Wake, Steve Lerman, Anne Watson, Tim Rowland and Ems Lord for their generous contribution. AMET is delighted to announce the publication by Learning Matters of its book titled Myths and Legends of Mastery in the Mathematics Curriculum. edited by Ros Hyde and Pinky Jane with chapter contributions from committee members. It is not an attempt to define ‘Mastery’ – more an acknowledgement of the messiness that surrounds it and how we should use this to our best advantage whilst acknowledging the challenges for schools. AMET welcomes the developing collaborative relationship that the association has with the NCETM and is pleased to have a member of the committee on the Project Coordination Team (PCT) for the Network Collaborative Project ‘Developing working partnerships with ITT providers’. This is an opportunity for NCETM and Maths Hubs to draw on AMET expertise, and for AMET to contribute to the planning and direction of the project. The invitation is for the academic year 2020/21 but participation has started. AMET as always keeps an eye on recruitment and relies on its members to keep us informed of what they are experiencing locally. ITE providers have maintained their recruitment process during the lockdown period by moving quickly to online interviewing for their programmes. Primary ITE have experienced some restriction to candidates ability to meet requirements due to a slow move of equivalency test providers to online testing. BCU are offering a GCSE equivalency testing service for non-BCU applicants. This has been a very challenging period for all involved with Initial Teacher Education in ensuring an adequate supply of sufficiently qualified new teachers enter the system in September. Thank you to the Council for Subject Associations who were quick to reach out to subject associations for good online resources for pupils during lockdown. AMET members contributed their recommendations. Jointly with all MMSA member associations, a working party continues to meet for discussions regarding the forming of one subject association although this has stalled during the lockdown period. AMET committee remains committed to supporting the process to make this happen.

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6.4 British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics  Agenda

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6.5 British Society for the History of Mathematics  Agenda

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Mathematics Teacher Training Scholarships

Year 8 Target: 500 applications with the aim of awarding 270 Scholarships.

Applications Applications opened on the 11 October 2019. To date, we have received 384 applications. At the same point last year, we had received 296 applications.

Scholarships We have awarded 34 Scholarships to date.

Covid-19 Implications • The workshops arranged for the Alumni CPD event on Saturday 25 April 2020 were turned into a series of webinars. • Joint Scholars and Alumni event scheduled for Saturday 6 June has been moved to Saturday 19 September 2020. This coincides with the Celebration Event for the new cohort of Maths Scholars. These events will only go ahead face-to-face if it is safe to do so. • The series of webinars for the Alumni were opened up to the Maths Scholars to continue to support their training, and the Scholars Maths Mastery webinar was opened up to the Alumni • Assessment Centres will be conducted online for the rest of this academic year. • We are currently looking into running the maths test online

Maths Scholars CPD Events

Attendance: Event Registered Attended Cancelled No Show Celebration Event 115 92 21 2 Bletchley Park 76 60 15 1 NSTEMLC 42 25 15 2 Teaching for Mastery Webinar 35 30 0 5 Operational Research: Let’s play with 27 27 0 0 Lego Bringing Geometry Alive 45 39 0 6 Probably the best probability session 45 36 0 9 south of the north pole & Games and puzzles in the mathematics classroom and club

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Alumni CPD Events

Attendance: Event Registered Attended Cancelled No Show Teaching for Mastery Webinar 26 20 0 6 Operational Research: Let’s play with 26 22 0 4 Lego Bringing Geometry Alive 34 28 0 6 Probably the best probability session 35 31 0 4 south of the north pole & Games and puzzles in the mathematics classroom and club

If you would like to see what happens at our previous events, including the webinars, see #MathsScholarsCPD.

Twitter Hour The guest host for February’s twitter hour was former Maths Scholar Bobby Seagull. The theme of the hour focussed on maths/numeracy across a school curriculum.

For March’s twitter hour we were joined by Tom Button, MEI’s Mathematics Technology Specialist and we discussed What is the purpose of teaching methods in maths when technology can perform many processes quicker and more accurately that students can?

Unfortunately, the guest host we had lined up for April’s twitter hour was unwell. Luckily, we were able to carry on with the theme, Ideas for developing your practice remotely?, as a member of our Alumni, Abiramy Varathanathan, stepped in last minute and agreed to guest host the twitter hour for us.

May’s twitter hour had an international flavour to it as we were joined by Sunil Singh, author of Pi of Life: The Hidden Happiness of Mathematics (2017), Maths Recess: Playful Learning in an Age of Disruption (2019) and Chasing Rabbits: A Curious Guide to a Lifetime of Mathematical Wellness (2021). He is a passionate leader in humanizing mathematics, and his role of Director of the Board at The Human Restoration Project, an endeavour aimed at transforming schools, is supporting that initiative. Our theme for the hour was Utilizing History and Storytelling to Invoke a Lifetime of Mathematical Curiosity.

The hashtag for the twitter hour is #mttschat.

Vanessa Thorogood, May 2020  Agenda

6.9 London Mathematical Society  Agenda

The news of activities is unfortunately mainly one of postponements. The following have all been postponed: • Popular Lectures in London and Birmingham. • LMS/Gresham Popular Lecture • Education Day • Mathematics Communication Training Days

The Popular Lecture for Maths Week Scotland is also in doubt and may depend on the eventual format chosen for the week.

In response to the forthcoming digital accessibility legislation (The Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018), the Education Committee has produced a website on accessibility and mathematics: https://www.lms.ac.uk/policy/mathematics-and-accessibility

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The LMS, along with the IMA and RSS, has endorsed a Workshop on Teaching and Learning Mathematics Online that is being organized by me, Michael Grove, and Rachel Hilliam. This is in response to the change to online teaching at universities in the autumn. The workshop will be online 2-3 June. Details can be found at http://talmo.uk

Kevin Houston, Education Secretary, May 2020  Agenda

6.10 Mathematical Association  Agenda

Council met on Saturday 14th March, our last face to face meeting before the lockdown was introduced, and one that now seems to be a very long time ago. It was also the last meeting of the current Council before the AGM brings with it an influx of new blood and, as is traditional, those proposed as new members of Council by the AGM were invited to attend. Several were able to come along and observe Council in action. Our annual report is now on the website and the past year has not been a good one financially. The MA has a healthy cash reserve and the valuation of Headquarters has been increased so our assets remain approximately the same in value. However, we must look to increase our income over the coming years and reduce our expenditure, neither of which will be easy in the current circumstances. We had to cancel this year’s annual conference, but next year’s is already being planned and it marks the 150th anniversary of the founding of The Mathematical Association, originally as the Association for the Improvement of Geometrical Teaching (AIGT). The conference will be held at Stratford upon Avon on the 8th – 10th of April 2021. We will have Dr Hannah Fry leading with her Presidential Address and it promises to be a conference not to be missed. The cancelation of this year’s conference meant we could not hold our usual physical AGM, but taking advantage of the Government’s advice of relaxing the conditions for AGMs, we allowed members to vote electronically. This was most successful and meant that the new Council could be voted in, and the auditors approved for the coming year. We will be examining our Articles of Association to see how we can move forward to allowing proxy, postal and voting to take place in future years. We were pleased to learn that Bill Richardson’s 20 years of service to the Scottish Mathematical Challenge had been marked by an award by the Scottish Mathematical Council. Three new books are now ready for publication or already published. David Miles book, A-Level Pure Mathematics, is already on the shelves, so to speak, and selling well. The two other books are Hooked on Mathematics by Jenni Black and Geometry Juniors by Ed Southall. These were to be launched at this year’s conference but fresh marketing plans will soon be in place. This was Peter Ransom’s last meeting as Chair of Council. Peter has chaired Council for five years and is timed out by the regulations. He will continue to edit SYMmetryPlus and be an active member of the MA. Tom Roper now takes on the role of Chair of Council. Our Twitter account passed 26k followers last month. Peter Ransom  Agenda

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6.14 National Numeracy  Agenda National Numeracy Day 2020 became a Virtual Festival and was a great success, with just under 100,000 people engaged through the National Numeracy Day campaign so far. Please have a look at all the ‘view again’ content on the site. This article in the Guardian by NN Vice-Chair Andy Haldane + this on BBC Bitesize + this Quartz article provide a bit more flavour. The National Numeracy Challenge has been almost completely reworked to be far more attitudinally focussed – please have a look + share with maths anxious people!: https://www.nnchallenge.org.uk/ I have shared again our ‘Building a numerate nation: confidence, belief and skills’ report because it explains our focus on the nuanced relationship between confidence and competence and I think will be of interest to JMC members who missed it first time around. This ‘Do interventions that improve financial capability work for people with low numeracy?’ analysis of research by the Behavioural Insights Team was part of their Financial Capability Lab work may also be of interest – it is only indicative but our wider work is in keeping with these findings. As a result of contact with DfE related to National Numeracy Day, the National Numeracy Challenge now appears on a .gov.uk site for the first time here (although not yet on the government’s official Skills Toolkit). Founding CEO, Mike Ellicock is leaving National Numeracy at the end of June (still to no fixed abode – but lots of ideas!) and is currently handing over to new CEO Sam Sims.  Agenda

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6.15 NRICH  Agenda

Responding to the Covid-19 Crisis During the school closures, NRICH’s online offering has never been busier. In readiness for the impending closure of schools, we had already set up a dedicated area of the NRICH website for home learning.; all visitors to NRICH can easily access our free ‘Maths at Home’ resources. Although life at NRICH is never quiet, we have experienced a huge surge in ‘hits’ on these resources; we have welcoming over 1.25 million a visitors a week since the lockdown. We hope that the students and their families enjoy exploring our rich mathematical resources. Question: How do we ensure that students continue to develop their reasoning and problem- solving skills during lockdown when so many online materials focus heavily on procedural fluency? We’ve also been working with the BBC to support their BBC Bitesize initiative. Already several NRICH activities have already featured in its daily mathematics lessons for both primary and secondary year groups, and we’re busy preparing materials for the coming weeks. This is a difficult time for those students preparing for university. Some may have entrance examinations to take. In June, students will be sitting their STEP II and STEP II papers.; our STEP Support Programme remains freely available for all students, including all its modules and support materials, and new resources are being added to offer additional support at this time. It is also a difficult time for sixth-formers who were hoping to attend Open Days this summer. Nevertheless, online Open Days may offer a way forward and the materials offered by our STEP Support Programme were featured during the first online Open Day held by the Faculty of Mathematics at Cambridge. Finally, there has been much discussion about R numbers in the media, but understanding the mathematical modelling can be challenge! NRICH has been working with our colleagues at Plus magazine who aim to explain the mathematics behind the news. One frequent discussion point is the R number, especially comparing the figures for hospitals and the wider community, and the team have produced a guide aimed at older teenagers and adults: The Problem with Combining R Ratios  Agenda

6.16 Operational Research Society  Agenda

Our education outreach has been impacted by COVID-19 as events are moved online or cancelled. We are attending online events and recording video resources, which is enabling our outreach to continue while everyone is working and attending school remotely. JMC General Meeting – 2 June 2020 – Agenda Page 19 of 23

If you are compiling online maths resources, please let me know and I will be happy to share our resources with you. If you have any interesting examples/case studies of maths or operational research being used to tackle COVID-19 please share them with me. Maths, data and statistics are particularly prominent at the moment, this may be something we can use in future outreach efforts, post COVID-19. Evelyn Hardy, Education Officer  Agenda

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Florence Nightingale: The bicentenary of our first female fellow On 12 May 2020, the RSS recognised the 200th anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s birth. Florence Nightingale was the first female fellow of the RSS, having joined the Society (then the London Statistical Society) in 1858, just two years after her return from the Crimean War. She remained a member until her death more than 50 years later. While Nightingale is best known worldwide for revolutionising nursing and healthcare through her campaigning for health reform, her far-reaching recommendations were based on impressive statistical work and popularised through pioneering data visualisation. Sadly, the majority of our Nightingale- focused events had to be postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. There were a number of activities that still went ahead. RSS Covid-19 Task Force The RSS is supportive of the work of expert statisticians in response to the Covid-19 crisis, and has formed a task force co-chaired by its president elect, Professor Sylvia Richardson CBE and past president, David Spiegelhalter OBE, supported by a steering group. The task force engages a network of RSS members who are active on Covid-19 and expert in diverse aspects of applied probability and statistics. The scope for its work is broad, encompassing the design of data collection, diagnostic studies, modelling, forecasting and treatment studies, the enhancement of public understanding, and other areas. 18 May 2020  Agenda

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6.19 Scottish Mathematical Council  Agenda Key activity since November 2019

In line with key messages contained within Making Maths Count. Transforming Scotland into a Maths Positive Nation (Scottish Government, 2016), the Scottish Mathematical Council produce three Deputy First Minister’s Holiday Challenges per school session in December, March and June. These Challenges are produced in hard copy, distributed to schools during the last two weeks of term and aim to promote family engagement. Previously, our target audience was Primary 7 pupils and their parents/carers, however this session the Challenge moved to Primary 4. The December 2019 Challenge was very well received by its new audience. Although printed, the Spring 2020 Challenge has only been available online due to schools closing on 20th March. It can be found here: https://www.parentclub.scot/articles/deputy-first-ministers-spring-maths-challenge-2020 Parents/Carers, Pupils and Teachers are currently invited to complete an online evaluation of the DFM Challenges, the results of which will inform future developments. The main SMC Journal (Journal 50) was published and distributed to all Scottish secondary schools in December 2019. Issue 4 of the Primary Journal was published in March 2020 and sent to local education authority representatives for distribution to Scottish primary schools. Scottish Independent schools with primary aged pupils have also received copies of the Primary Journal. Both journals,

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together with back copies of previous journals, can be found here: http://www.scottishmathematicalcouncil.org/wp1/smc-publications/journals/ The annual Scottish Mathematical Council ‘Stirling Conference’ took place on Saturday 7th March 2020 and was attended by over 300 delegates. Craig Barton delivered the keynote presentation on Misconceptions in Mathematics: Angles. Thereafter, delegates attended four of the thirty workshops on offer. Presentations from this and previous conferences can be found here: http://www.scottishmathematicalcouncil.org/wp1/ . The SMC Achievement Award recognises ‘someone who has been involved in mathematics education in Scotland for a significant amount of time and has made a major contribution to learning and teaching of the subject at primary, secondary or tertiary level’. It is presented at the Stirling Conference each year. This year’s Achievement Award went to Mark Higgins, Principal Teacher of Mathematics at Notre Dame High School, Glasgow. Details of previous SMC Achievement Award winners can be found here: http://www.scottishmathematicalcouncil.org/wp1/achievement-award/ . This year, a special award was also presented to Bill Richardson, MBE, for services to the SMC Mathematical Challenge, a competition for talented young mathematicians in upper primary and secondary education. Maths Week Scotland will go ahead as planned from 28th September – 4th October 2020. This year’s key themes are climate change and mathematics in the workplace. Unsurprisingly, there will be significantly fewer face-to-face events and significantly more online activity. In addition to our normal contributions designed with lowerstage secondary pupils in mind (Deputy First Minister’s Daily Challenges and Maths wi’ Nae Borders competition) it is likely that SMC will also contribute online challenges suitable for primary pupils this year. These challenges will be based on the ‘mathematics in the workplace’ theme. Possible question for consideration Social distancing is set to be with us for some time. To what extent do JMC members feel this will impact on learning and teaching in mathematics, when children and young people return to school, and what support can we provide, either collectively or as individual organisations?

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7 Reports from Observing Bodies

7.4 National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics  Agenda

Key Developments since the last JMC meeting

Support for maths learning and teaching during school closures Over the last few weeks, we've been adding to our resources to support teachers and parents during the school closures.

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Website and materials • The number of unique visitors to the website during April was 109,351 • During May 2020 the NCETM national newsletter was sent to 277,076 registered users • In April 183,557 users were sent the Primary Round-up and 37,547 users were sent the Secondary Round-up. Maths Hubs Network Three new Maths hubs have launched, bringing the total in the Maths Hubs Network to 40 They are:

• Origin Maths Hub, covering parts of the West Midlands, including Coventry and Warwick • Möbius Maths Hub, serving schools in Wiltshire, West Berkshire, Reading and surrounding areas • Venn Essex Maths Hub, covering most of Essex

The new hubs will start work properly when the next school year gets going in September. Communications One area of our activity we’ve been able to pursue ‘as normal’ is our podcasts. We’ve recently been recording 15-minute interviews with primary and secondary teachers across England, to reflect the different ways that schools are providing remote learning, and teachers' emerging thoughts on school re-opening. There are currently four episodes in the ‘lockdown’ series to listen to. Find out more May 2020  Agenda

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10 Discussion of Reports  Agenda

10.1 Covid-19 Please see the separate discussion paper Covid-19 and mathematics education: impact and mitigation and the discussion questions contained in the NRICH and SMC reports.  Agenda

10.3 Report update: A comparative analysis of 5-18 education across the four countries of the UK  Agenda Please see the separate draft report Mathematics Education 5-18 in the Four Nations. As this is the first draft it should not be circulated outside of the Council.  Agenda

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1 Introduction 1.1 Welcome 1.2 Practical Arrangements 1.3 Apologies for Absence 1.4 Declarations of Conflicts of Interest

2 Previous Business 2.1 Approval of the minutes of the meeting held on 18 February 2020 2.2 Decisions taken since 18 February 2020 2.3 Actions 2.4 Matters arising but not appearing elsewhere on the agenda

3 Officers and Trustees 3.1 Chair 3.2 Deputy Chair 3.3 Secretary 3.4 Treasurer

4 Committees 4.1 BCME Committee 4.2 GCSE Working Group 4.3 ICME Bursaries Committee 4.4 MMSA Special Interest Group

5 Elections 5.1 Deputy Chair 5.2 Treasurer

6 Future Business 6.1 To consider the business of the General Meeting including Covid-19 and commissioned reports 6.2 To consider topics for discussion at the November 2020 and February 2021 General Meetings 6.3 To consider possible areas for small scale commissioned projects 6.4 To note the date and venue of the Trustees’ Planning Day – Thursday 29 September 2020 (LMS) 6.5 To consider pattern and dates of future Trustees’ Meetings 6.6 To note the dates of future General Meetings: • Thursday 12 November 2020 (NCVO) • Tuesday 16 February 2021 (NCVO) • Date and venue for June 2021 to be arranged

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