1. Mathematical Relationships Seminar Series Our Journeys Cathy Patricia Smith George

2. London Students read messages into the results of assessment; they can accept, reject or extend the structures made available to them Dylan Wiliam (Socio-cultural) Different ways of teaching allow different positions for (different) students. How do we change the discourse of ‘maths is hard’ to something more positive? Candia Morgan & Heather Mendick (Discourse) Mathematics as ‘the enemy’ or mathematics as a defence Yvette Solomon & Laura Black (Psychoanalytic)

3. Manchester What and how are cultural models produced in existing pedagogies, through social talk and/or maths talk? Julian Williams & Pauline Davis (Socio-cultural) The everyday is powerful in mathematics discourse; mathematics discourse is powerful in everyday life Steve Lerman (Discourse) Eroticism in mathematics; staying with the frisson Tamara Bibby (Psychoanalytic)

4. Edinburgh Mathematics textbooks tend to promote certain identities but so do the tasks and the teacher’s mediation Birgit Pepin (Socio-cultural) ‘Suspend your belief in the innocence of words and the transparency of language as a window on an objectively graspable reality’ ( Maclure, 2003, p12) then you can ask: For whom, mathematics? Macintyre, Griffiths & Hamilton (Discursive) Connotations with death, absolutes and binaries offer mathematical identities an internal ‘moral’ logic Jenny Shaw (Psychoanalytic)

5. Cardiff Students were given ‘many more ways to be successful, so more students were successful’ Jo Boaler (Socio-cultural) Structure, agency, and what looks like their interaction, are all assemblages of discourse Valerie Walkerdine (Discursive) ‘finding spaces to dance where none can be seen’ Hilary Povey & Mark Boylan (Psychoanalytic)

6. Sheffield Tension as a source of learning Barbara Jaworski (Socio-cultural) Words enable as well as limit/constrain their associated identities Tansy Hardy (Discursive)) Are the stories we tell in coming to understandings of ourselves in mathematics gendered more than classed or ethnicised? Pat Drake (Psychoanalytic)

7. We meet at last … at Lord’s