These videos form part of a series of “stimulus” videos created for the Maths Pipeline Project. The project has been set up to improve the teaching and learning of mathematics in the education and training sector.

The first video features college students who studying for their GCSE. They are encouraged to discuss the meaning of algebraic expressions through the use of a card sorting activity.

The second video features learners studying for a qualification in Multi-trade Repair and Refurbishment. As part of the course, they have to develop skills in the practical application of Mathematics. Here, the learners are introduced to Pythagoras using the “3-4-5 method”. This approach is used to help set out the walls of a building to ensure that they are at right angles.

FaSMEd is a Science in Society Collaborative Project of the European Community

Working with partners across eight countries, researchers looked at how technology could be used in formative assessment by teachers to help raise attainment levels among the lowest achieving students.

This video shows maths teachers at one school using technology as a strategy to help with formative assessment in mathematics.

Bowland Maths is involved in producing problem solving tasks to help learners, aged 11-14, develop the mathematical skills needed for everyday life.

It was identified that whilst schools addressed knowledge and skills in mathematics, i,e. the basics, there was little attention in supporting students in

• using these skills to tackle new problems
• discussing their thinking with other students and with their teachers
• instilling an attitude that recognises the value of analytical approaches to problems.

The purpose of Bowland Maths was to provide materials that would enable teachers to tackle these areas with their students.

The project drew upon the work of the University of Nottingham, who devised the tasks and supported the development of the modules and the online resource, more generally.

Ross supported the filming and editing for a series of videos for two of the professional development modules:

1. Assessing the Key Processes
2. Involving pupils in self and peer assessment

Filming featured teachers and learners at two schools. One school focused on Assessing the Key Processes and the other, self and peer assessment.

In February 2013 there was an exhibition featuring work by the artists Rosa Barba, Carl Andre, and JMW Turner.

Prior to the exhibition, visitors to the centre had been given the opportunity to examine and critique three of the exhibits:

• Rosa Barba – Boundaries of consumption
• Carl Andre – 4×25 Altstadt Rectangle
• JMW Turner – Spheres at Different Distances from the Eye

The discussion among the visitors was part of an experiment using Philosophical Inquiry.

The AMSP is a government-funded initiative, managed by the MEI, with the aim to “increase participation in Core Maths, AS/A level Mathematics and Further Mathematics and improve the teaching of these level 3 maths qualifications”.

Over a two year period, I helped create a series of videos to be used by students enrolled on the AMSP online course. These videos were designed to help students think about the topic of statistics, with a particular focus on managing statistical data: collecting, displaying, analysing, testing and interpreting data.

Below are two videos taken from this work. Thinking about the data. Population and Sampling

Supporting Business Innovation is part of the World Class Skills Programme and is designed to support providers in helping businesses innovate.

“FE Knowledge and Technology Transfer (FE KTT) is a service to business which uses, or increases, FE’s specialist expertise, facilities and knowledge capital for the benefit of a company’s productivity and ways of working, rather than the development of the skills of the individual employees.”

The project draws on the work of 5 FE sector networks involved in exploring ways to “develop their capacity to support innovation” through effective knowledge and technology transfer. Each network is made up of teaching and learning sector providers from across the country.

Ross helped produce videos that feature the Pathfinder Networks as they share their work and experiences. These videos were included in the DVD-ROM, ‘Effective knowledge and technology transfer’.

My Future Starts Here is an information, advice and careers guidance service. They are a team of specialist advisers based in Hastings, East Sussex, working with young people, adults and organisations. Part of their service is organising career events.

The video below features one of those events being held at Sussex Coast College, Hastings, for students from two local academies.

‘Listening to learners? Citizenship and learner voice’ is a resource consisting of a booklet and CD-ROM. It forms part of a series of support materials produced by the Post-16 Citizenship Support Programme. The Programme aims to disseminate and support best practice in citizenship across all areas of 16–19 education and training, and improve cohesion and progression from key stage 4 citizenship to the post-16 phase.”

A series of videos were produced for the resource. Here is one of those videos. It features the work at Oaklands College, where staff and learners have been involved in a whole college approach to developing a learner voice strategy.

My Future Starts Here is an information, advice and careers guidance service. They are a team of specialist advisers based in Hastings, East Sussex, working with young people, adults and organisations. Part of their service is organising career events.

The video below features one of those events being held at Sussex Coast College, Hastings, for students from two local academies.

Maths4Life focuses on developing basic mathematical skills. The resource, ‘Thinking through mathematics’, was made up of a series of lessons developed by Malcolm Swan, University of Nottingham, and a DVD featuring teachers and adult learners using some of the activities. The DVD was for developed for CPD sessions.

Filming focussed around three lessons and a discussion between the teachers of those lessons. The video also features Malcolm Swan.

This clip focusses on issues surrounding discussion in the classroom.

The ‘National Teaching and Learning Change Programme’ (NTLCP). The objective of the programme was to improve teaching and learning in the learning and skills sector, through the creation of a series of multimedia teaching and learning resources across a range of subjects.

Ross worked on various projects across the different phases of the programme and helped produce the following online and multimedia teacher resources.

• Improving teaching and learning in science
• Looking at learning in science
• Improving learning in mathematics
• Improving teaching and learning in engineering
• Learning mathematics in context

Here are three video clips taken from these resources: using questioning to explore students’ understanding of endothermic and exothermic reactions; the importance of discussion in mathematics lessons; challenges surrounding abstract ideas in science.