About Me

I have 20 years experience in maths education. I completed my DPhil in Mathematics Education at the University of Oxford in 2007. My research was centred on how Variation Theory could be used in the teaching and learning of algebra. I continued as a post-doctoral researcher and taught on the Oxford PGCE course.

I have given workshops in the UK, US, Sweden, and Australia. My teaching career has included working in a variety of schools, ranging from London comprehensives, to highly selective New York private schools, to an international school in Asia. The classes I taught have varied in composition from small homogeneous groups to large mixed groups, and from Year 5 to Year 13.

My teaching and research experiences have given me the opportunity to spend a considerable length of time in mathematics classrooms observing many teachers and students. In all settings I specialised in offering support and enrichment to staff using both concept-based and inquiry-based teaching approaches.

I consider myself to be a practitioner/researcher, combining both theoretical and practical knowledge, and using one perspective to test the ideas offered in the other.