Educators use a great many adjectives to describe educational objects. For example, mathematical tasks are routinely described using adjectives such as “rich”, “open”, “real-life”, “engaging” and so on.

Dr Mathew Inglis, Mathematics Education Centre, University of Loughborough, presents studies where he has used methods developed by psychologists interested in understanding human personalities to investigate the ‘personalities’ of educational objects. This seminar will pay particular attention to mathematical proofs (the primary route through which undergraduate mathematics is taught) and school-level classroom mathematics tasks.

For more information, visit the School of Education website.

To attend, please contact educationresearchstaff@nottingham.ac.uk