Research


Action Research

FMSPW is committed to pedagogical and other educational research towards helping us to best support our aims.

We have undertaken research into:

  • Why students choose (or don’t choose) to study Further Mathematics
  • Curriculum reform
  • The transition to University
  • Tools to support designing a connected curriculum

We have also undertaken action research, working with teachers in Wales into:

  • The Flipped Classroom Approach
  • Integrating Geogebra into Mathematics Education
  • Visualising Statistics and the Cycle of Enquiry

We have published papers in Journals and Conference Proceedings – some of these are linked to in the ‘Published Research’ drop-down.

Planned projects and on-going work can be seen in the below. We are also keen to support teachers with action research ideas.

Please email fmspwales@swansea.ac.uk for further information or to express an interest in getting involved.

Planned Research Projects 2021/2022

Research work for this year will depend on responses to the pandemic. As well as possibly recommencing the suspended projects below, we hope to work on:

  • Implementing a Connected Curriculum in Mathematics and Further Mathematics A-level
Current Research Projects – 2020/2021

From emergency remote teaching to quality remote teaching: a case study of Covid-19 FMSPW high school mathematics outreach.

  • Case studies of FMSPW asynchronous mathematics outreach programmes during school closures
  • Students engaging with mathematics enrichment during Covid-19
  • Analysis against international trends in Covid-19 school education, research on blended learning and FMSPW 10-year experience of offering remote courses in Further Mathematics in Wales
  • The project is ongoing, and the findings will contribute to re-cycling of the materials produced during Covid-19
  • Innovation under Covid – abandoned due to unsurmountable pandemic related difficulties
Suspended Research Projects – 2019/2020

These projects may be restarted when conditions allow

Flipped Classroom Approaches (FCA)

  • The effect of using the FCA on student resilience
  • Opportunities for developing deeper understanding

Integrating Geogebra into Mathematics Education

  • Initial research into teacher attitudes to use of Geogebra
  • Initial research into student attitudes to use of Geogebra

Visualising Statistics and the Cycle of Enquiry

  • The effect of relevant topic and visualisation approach to introducing students to the data handling cycle

Please email fmspwales@swansea.ac.uk for further information or to express an interest in getting involved.


Published Research

Flipped Classroom Approach

Published BSLRM papers

Connected Curricula

Published BCME papers

Connected A-Level Programmes of Study

Published BSLRM papers

3D Curriculum

Senedd Covid-19 Paper
Pedagogy
  • Lyakhova, S., Oakes, D. & Joubert, M (2021) Engaging with mathematics during Covid-19: students aged 16+ responding to a mathematics ‘Box Set’ of enrichment video materials https://doi.org/10.1093/teamat/hrab023
  • Lyakhova, S. & Joubert, M. (2021) Post-16 Further Mathematics blended learning: learner self-regulation, mathematical resilience and technology. Teaching Mathematics and its Applications: An International Journal of the IMA. https://doi.org/10.1093/teamat/hrab005  
  • Lyakhova, S., Joubert, M., Capraro, M., & Capraro, R. (2019) Designing a curriculum based on four purposes: let mathematics speak for itself. Journal of Curriculum Studies, 51(4), 513-529. 
Choosing Further Mathematics
  • Lyakhova, S. & Neate, A. (2021) Further Mathematics, student choice and transition to university: part 2—non-mathematics STEM degrees. Teaching Mathematics and its Applications: An International Journal of the IMA. https://doi.org/10.1093/teamat/hrab004
  • Lyakhova, S. & Neate, A. (2019) Further Mathematics, student choice and transition to university: part 1 – Mathematics degrees. Teaching Mathematics and its Applications: An International Journal of the IMA, 38(4), 167-190. https://doi.org/10.1093/teamat/hry013  
  • Tanner, H., Lyakhova, S., & Neate, A. (2016).Choosing Further Mathematics. Cylchgrawn Addysg Cymru / Wales Journal of Education, 18(2), 23-40. https://doi.org/10.16922/wje.18.2.4

Please email fmspwales@swansea.ac.uk for further information or to express an interest in getting involved.