Dr Thomas Hunt
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Associate Professor in Psychology. Mathematics Anxiety Research Group lead at the Uni. of Derby. All views are my own.
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If you're maths anxious or would like to know about maths anxiety, please check out our free online crash course in maths anxiety
@dr_tom_hunt
@DominicPetronzi
@katiavione
@Bobby_Seagull
@LearnusUK
@DerbyUniPress
@DerbyUni
@Nat_Numeracy
@DerbyOppArea
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Is your school interested in addressing misconceptions about the relevance of maths in the workplace? We're targeting Year 9. See below👇 Retweets welcome!
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Fantastic Maths Anxiety Trust
#mathsanxiety
summit in London tonight. Lots of great speakers & interesting discussion. Also nice to see the publication of this research informed brief guide for teachers, co-authored with Sue Skyrme.
@DerbyUniPress
@DerbyUniPsych
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Our book chapter Interventions to Address Mathematics Anxiety: An Overview and Recommendations is freely available here:
@DerbyUniPress
@Dave_Shef
@DominicPetronzi
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Our Maths Anxiety Research Group
@DerbyUni
has created a free Guide on addressing
#mathsanxiety
. Download it here: and feel free to share!
@DominicPetronzi
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We're looking for UK secondary schools interested in distributing a survey to Year 11s. The focus is on maths attitudes, maths anxiety, and maths self-beliefs. It's part of a cross-cultural international project & we can provide individual school reports. DM for more info!
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Academics at
@UoD
are running a research project called ‘This is maths!’. The purpose of the project is to change people’s perceptions of how maths is used in the workplace. Maths is used in all jobs, yet this is not always evident to young people.
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Pleased to see our paper published on the importance of appraisals of previous maths experiences in the context of
#mathsanxiety
,
#mathematicalresilience
, and
#mathsattitudes
. …
@Maloney_EA
@DerbyUniPress
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It's Maths Anxiety Awareness Day! Members of
@DerbyUni
Maths Anxiety Research Group () (
@dr_tom_hunt
,
@DominicPetronzi
) will be contributing to the
@DyscalculiaNet1
webinars later today (for educators, parents, adults):
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To coincide with
#NumberConfidenceWeek
and
#MathsAnxietyDay
I'm delighted to have taken part in a
@pearson
podcast on
#mathsanxiety
. Listen here:
@DerbyUniPress
@DerbyUniPsych
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Great idea!...developing a measure of maths avoidance for children. This will be useful!
@RachelAConlon
#mcls2022
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Over 1300 people have participated in our free
#mathsanxiety
short course so far (). 115 people listed up to 5 words they associate with
#mathsanxiety
. This is the result:
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Enjoyed filming for our online maths anxiety crash course today
@DominicPetronzi
@DerbyUniPsych
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Very pleased to make it into the top two in the category Delivering Excellence and Opportunity for the Region and Beyond as part of the Staff Excellence Awards at
@DerbyUni
#mathsanxietyresearchandimpact
#reducingtheachievementgap
#localnationalinternational
#workingwithschools
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Enjoyed leading a maths anxiety workshop on Friday at the Derbyshire Primary Maths Conference
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Our chapter on Acquisition, Development and Maintenance of Maths Anxiety in Young Children is now out in the new book Mathematics Anxiety: What is Known and What is still to be Understood
@DerbyUniPress
@DerbyUni
@DerbyUniPsych
@Dave_Shef
@DominicPetronzi
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On our way to Romania for our first joint psychology and mathematics Erasmus exchange to Babes-Bolyai University!
@DerbyUni
@BagdasarO
@DerbyUniPsych
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Attention teachers!...please see this free guide for teachers with
#mathsanxiety
(&/or anxiety about teaching maths), commissioned by the Maths Anxiety Trust & authored by Sue Skyrme and me!
@DerbyUniPress
@Nat_Numeracy
@GuardianTeach
@Bobby_Seagull
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Pleased to have appeared as a guest on India's
@sansad_tv
just now, discussing the Government's plans to teach maths to all pupils in England up to 18. Didn't quite get chance to mention everything, but highlighted the importance of maths anxiety & maths attitudes.
@DerbyUniPress
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It's
#mathsanxiety
awareness day! Take a look at the work of the
@DerbyUni
Maths Anxiety Research Group- videos, blogs, self-report measures, research papers, free online course, and more! Looking forward to speaking to teachers at the
@DyscalculiaNet1
event tonight.
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Our chapter "Socio-cognitive-affective barriers to mathematics education in developing nations" has been accepted for publication in the Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals: Quality Education. Watch this space!
@DrVicSimms
@AbbieCahoon
@charlesmuwonge3
#collab
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Delighted that our book chapter on socio-cognitive-affective barriers to maths education in developing nations is now available online
@DrVicSimms
@AbbieCahoon
@charlesmuwonge3
@DerbyUniPress
@DerbyUniPsych
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Thanks to
@Kingsmead_Derby
for such a good turn out (23) at the maths anxiety workshop! Looking forward to rolling out new initiatives to tackle maths anxiety in the classroom.
@DerbyUniPress
@DerbyOppArea
@EM_MathsHub
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In case you're interested in hearing my thoughts (from a psychological perspective) on recent proposals in post-16 maths education👇
@DerbyUniPsych
With maths education being highlighted at the recent political party conferences, what could the proposals and discussions mean for schools and teachers?
@DerbyUni
's
@dr_tom_hunt
, who leads the Mathematics Anxiety Research Group, discusses:
@FENews
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Watch me live at 1.30 PM TODAY on talking about how to overcome
#mathsanxiety
, as part of
#NationalNumeracyDay
Virtual Festival
@PearsonSchools
@Nat_Numeracy
@LearnusUK
@DerbyUniPress
@DerbyUniPsych
@DerbyUni
@DerbyOppArea
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In May I ran workshops on tackling maths/test anxiety in a large cohort of FE students. I've since received messages to say exam attendance was higher than normal and one student I spoke to individually not only attended their exams but achieved good grades.
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Such a great turnout at a parent engagement event at a local Derby infant school today! Lots of parents interested in learning how to reduce maths anxiety!
@DerbyUniPress
@DerbyOppArea
@TeamDANCOP
@DerbyUniPsych
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Such great engagement from maths teachers in Nevsehir, Turkey. Discussing ways to reduce maths anxiety and increase performance in the classroom.
@DerbyUni
@DerbyUniPress
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Starting to miss "normal" conferences....presenting at two online ones today and thinking of making myself a name badge, doing a buffet lunch, phoning a few people to repeat where I'm from and what I do, then maybe awkwardly standing on my own for a few minutes.
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A great post-conference evening- pizza, followed by a tour of
@krzysztofcipora
's new crib, but not before collecting vital supplies
@Michael91474679
#mcls2023
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Is your school interested in addressing misconceptions about the relevance of maths in the workplace? We're targeting Year 9. Retweets welcome!
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Love it when I get positive feedback from teachers about our freely available online crash course on maths anxiety!! Makes it all worthwhile and provides ideas for continuous improvement
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Are you a qualified, current UK primary school teacher? Please consider completing our brief online survey on maths (& maths teaching) anxiety . Retweets welcome!
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Proud of our work. And the best thing is that there's even more to come.
Do we really have a fear of Maths? 😨 Research has shown that we do! But
@dr_tom_hunt
and his team are developing ways of identifying those most in fear so they can be better supported. Discover what they are doing
@REF_2021
#DerbyUniSuccess
#REFResults
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Amazing week in Uganda working with colleagues to tackle socio-cognitive-emotional barriers in maths education. Talks and discussion in primary, secondary and university education
#gcrf
#sustainabledevelopment
@charlesmuwonge3
@MbararaUST
@DerbyUniPress
@DerbyUni
@DerbyUniPsych
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Looking forward to presenting today in the
@BDAdyslexia
conference symposium 'Understanding cognitive and emotional barriers to learning maths: becoming part of the solution' - findings from our study on appraisals of previous maths experiences
@Maloney_EA
@DerbyUniPsych
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Excited to be part of this!
@DerbyUniPress
@DerbyUniPsych
🗣️The
#NationalNumeracyDay
Virtual Festival Lineup is here!☝️🏽
📅 Wednesday 13 May
⏰ 8am-6pm!
📍
More info at
🏠
#everydaymaths
#homeschoolinguk
#stayhome
#lockdownlearning
#lockdownlife
#maths
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Great day running
#mathsanxiety
workshops with Y9s and Y10s today. Looking forward to the findings of our
#intervention
.
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Really enjoyed filming a
#mathsanxiety
masterclass with
@recparenting
today. Looking forward to seeing the final video. I hope parents find it helpful.
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Watch this space...our review paper on maths anxiety interventions has just been accepted
#openaccess
@DominicPetronzi
@Dave_Shef
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Enjoyed giving a maths anxiety talk to parents today at Ridgeway Infant School. Lots of appreciative messages at the end for practical solutions offered
#realworldimpact
#satisfying
@DerbyOppArea
@DerbyUniPsych
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Really enjoyed leading our latest grant application for GCRF funding for maths anxiety research in Brazil and Turkey, working with academics, schools and local authorities. Thanks to
@DerbyUni
for the pump priming funds
@DominicPetronzi
@katiavione
@MehmetHayriSari
@Deli_ane
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Looking forward to running a Skills for Life session on "overcoming maths anxiety in health and social care" for Talent for Care (Oct. 20th).
@LondonMarsh
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I'm pleased to announce I’ll be taking part in the
#NationalNumeracyDay
Virtual Festival at 1:30 PM on Wednesday! I'll be talking about how to overcome maths anxiety. Visit for the full festival line up.
@DerbyUniPress
@DerbyUniPsych
@PearsonSchools
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Looking forward to giving an invited talk at
@StaffsUni
later today on my career so far. Almost 20 years since I started there as an undergrad!
@StaffsPsych
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@DerbyUniVC
@DerbyUni
@NEONHE
I was the first person in my immediate and extended family to go to uni. I am proud to work for a university with shared values and one that supports all students through great (and equal) opportunities, kindness, and building resilience.
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Enjoyed presenting on the topic of measuring maths anxiety at the
@BDAdyslexia
#dyscalculia
conference today.
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Very happy to be a part of this important project!
Have you seen our brand-new Building Maths Confidence project?
We are delighted to have
@dr_tom_hunt
involved in this and hope it will help your
#Secondary
and
#Post16
students in this vital area 💫
👉
#UKEdChat
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Any recommendations on how best to reach qualified primary teachers currently teaching in the UK? We need to boost participant numbers for our survey on maths anxiety (and anxiety about teaching maths)....
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Anyone else spend time and effort on this in the mid 90s only for it to never be used?? Still, nice to see my aim come to fruition!
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Happy
#NationalNumeracyDay
! Anxious about maths? Don't let it hold you back. You're not alone. Small steps are important. Take the National Numeracy Challenge . See the
#mathsanxiety
resources & our free crash course
#BigNumberNatter
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Thank you to Nevsehir Haci Bektas University for being incredible hosts and providing the opportunity to visit schools and work on our joint research into maths anxiety
@BagdasarO
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Great to see Maths Anxiety Trust on here - do follow
@mathsanxietyUK
and check out the website for lots of useful resources:
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Having a direct impact speaking to teachers in a Nevsehir primary school about maths anxiety. Different culture, different language, common goals
@BagdasarO
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Fantastic event celebrating 10 years of
@Nat_Numeracy
at the amazing Bloomberg building, London. Lovely people, great impact, and brilliant partnerships.
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Thanks for such an amazing conference 👏
That’s all folks!
#MCLS2023
, have a safe journey home and see you at
#MCLS2024
With a special greetings from
@JCBahnmueller
, the big boss of everything this year!
@MCLStrainee
@
@mathcogsociety
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Very pleased to be involved in
#NationalNumeracyDay
@DerbyUniPress
Wise words from
@dr_tom_hunt
on How To Overcome Maths Anxiety, to mark
#NationalNumeracyDay
via
@YouTube
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Great workshop today at UoD sharing experiences and ideas relating to maths anxiety and from such a range of backgrounds: TEL, primary education, secondary education, tertiary education, pupil referral unit and cross-discipline academics.
@BagdasarO
@DerbyOppArea
@DerbyUni
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Thanks for inviting me
@ThePiXLNetwork
- already had some great chats with teachers looking to address
#mathsanxiety
@DerbyUni
@DerbyUniPress
Components of maths anxiety include:
⭕️ Cognitive function
⭕️ Emotional responses
⭕️ Behavioural responses
@dr_tom_hunt
explores how to identify maths anxiety in students, how it can affect attainment and enjoyment of maths, and what you can do to alleviate it
#PiXLMaths
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A blog I recently wrote for
@LearnusUK
on the future of psychology in maths education, with a focus on maths anxiety.
@DerbyUniPress
@DerbyUni
@DerbyUniPsych
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Enjoyed giving my talk today on 'maths (& maths teaching) anxiety'. School of Health Sciences, Kristiania University College
@hkristiania
- thanks for hosting me!
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What a productive and enjoyable Erasmus exchange to Babes-Bolyai University, meeting psychologists, mathematicians and teachers of pedagogy and special education. Even managed to meet colleagues at Alba-Iulia University too
@DerbyUniPsych
@BagdasarO
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Most primary teachers are fairly confident with maths, but many are not. Help us understand the extent of the issue of maths anxiety in teachers (and anxiety about teaching maths) by completing our brief survey: .
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Our paper on maths teaching anxiety has now been published - a useful scale and interesting findings from UK primary school teachers
@DerbyUniPress
@DerbyUniPsych
@BPS_PES
@MehmetHayriSari
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Interesting and inspiring meeting about
@maths4girlsuk
at the House of Lords, thanks to
@Founders4School
- important and impactful work.
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Calling all primary teachers in the UK 📣. Please consider completing our brief survey on maths anxiety (& anxiety about teaching maths):
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@flavinska72
@DeirdreMCasey
@TLU_MTU
@MTU_ie
@julieccrowley
@Marese_MTU
@Aine_Ni_She
@mtuanseo
Looks like it has been a fantastic event - sad to have missed it!...I have some recent data on interventions and will soon have data from a multi-national study on maths anxiety and maths teaching anxiety in primary/elementary teachers.....looking forward to sharing!
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On our way to Senate House, London....pleased to be invited to a maths anxiety summit to tackle maths anxiety.
@Dave_Shef
@DerbyUniPsych
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Feeling anxious about maths? You're not alone. Take the
@Nat_Numeracy
Challenge and take a look at our resources on
#mathsanxiety
here:
@DerbyUniPress
@DerbyUni
Today is
@Nat_Numeracy
‘s
#NationalNumeracyDay
many people feel held back by maths anxiety, listen to what Dr Thomas Hunt, Associate Professor of Psychology has to say about it, and visit our free online help.
👇
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Tomorrow I’ll be joining leading figures from education, academia, business & the third sector to explore how we can tackle
#MathsAnxiety
in Britain. Find out more about
@PearsonSchools
#PowerOfMaths
Roundtable and share your views here:
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Excited for the webinar tomorrow, in which we present the findings of a GCRF pump-prime funded project on maths performance, attitudes, anxiety and shame in teens in Uganda, Pakistan and Iran. >40 stakeholders from a range of countries.
@DerbyUniPress
@DerbyUniPsych
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Excited to be setting off to Turkey with
@BagdasarO
for our first Erasmus exchange with Nevsehir Haci Bektas Veli University
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Just arrived for the Singapore Applied Psychology Research Conference with
@EmmaSharpe19
@montyjane
@FrankieMaratos
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A blog summarising our recent study led by
@DominicPetronzi
along with some useful tips on reducing
#mathsanxiety
(& taken on board by UK and international schools following recent visits)
@DerbyUni
@DerbyOppArea
@DerbyUniPsych
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Very excited to have completed stage 1 of our Medicine Management Anxiety Scale project and to begin stage 2. Hopefully not long till we have a valid and reliable tool to support those working in nursing/healthcare.
@Trish_MedEd
@DerbyUni
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Watch this space....another school in Turkey implementing strategies to reduce maths anxiety...results in due course. Great teamwork with
@MehmetHayriSari
and Nesen Ertugrul!
#mathsanxiety
truly is a global issue.
#realworldimpact
@DerbyUni
@DerbyUniPress
@DerbyUniPsych
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Very pleased to feature on BBC Radio 4's programme Bringing up Britain - all about
#mathsanxiety
.
@DerbyUniPress
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Looking forward to working with local schools in the coming weeks on the topic of reducing maths anxiety. Sharing experiences and knowledge to reduce the achievement gap.
@DerbyOppArea
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Please check out the new Maths Anxiety Trust website: . Lots of useful info., including links to the
@DerbyUni
Mathematics Anxiety Research Group and our free online short course on
#mathsanxiety
@HelenWhitten7
@JacquiGram
@LearnusUK
@DerbyUniPsych
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Delighted to introduce Maths Anxiety Awareness Day:
Excited to join esteemed colleagues in the webinar later today to discuss
#mathsanxiety
!
@DerbyUniPress
@DerbyUniPsych
@DyscalculiaNet1
@LearnusUK
@Nat_Numeracy
Maths Anxiety Awareness Day webinar - 10.11.21
We are delighted to announce that our live webinar is now full! However, if you have any questions, send it to us here and we will put these questions to one of the panelists. We will share a recording of the event online. Thank u 👍
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Very excited to be involved in research collaboration with so many countries at the moment
#variety
#learnfromeachother
#interesting
🇺🇬🇧🇷🇨🇦🇺🇲🇦🇺🇰🇪🇷🇴🇹🇷🇮🇷🇵🇰🇯🇵🇩🇪🇸🇬🇳🇴🇹🇿
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Thanks Yasu - a good team effort! Looking forward to building the network of people working in this area
@dr_tom_hunt
@charlesmuwonge3
@katiavione
@Dave_Shef
Great session! Participants, who attended from various places in the world, found it helpful. Well done Tom :)
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7 excellent 3-min presentations, including Rachel Rozier & Vita Snowden from the UoD College of Health, Psychology & Social Care 👏
@NeilRadford24
and
@MariPhotiou
introducing this afternoon’s
@DerbyUni
3 Minute Thesis Competition 3MT final - a great celebration of the research of our PGR students
@DerbyUniPGR
@DerbyUniVC
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Thank you
@westhamwomen
for supporting our 'This is maths' project, inspiring young people to appreciate the value of maths in all jobs, especially as a professional footballer. Fantastic videos that will be used for our intervention in secondary schools.
@DerbyUni
@DerbyUniPress
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A whole episode on
#mathsanxiety
available to listen to here:
Also, scheduled to play tonight on
@BBCRadio4
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We still need more qualified primary teachers in the UK to complete our brief survey on anxiety/attitudes towards teaching maths! Find out more here:
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Students, parents/carers, teachers, policy makers, please take note.....
Being speedy at sums doesn’t necessarily mean you’re good at maths, say
@dr_tom_hunt
and
@stevechinnUK
– Here are their 8 reasons to stop using timed maths activities
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Attention colleagues working in UK FE colleges.....please see the advert below - an important study on maths self-beliefs and anxiety in FE Maths students. Please respond to
@MashaMaths
if you can help.
@ThePiXLNetwork
@LearnusUK
@Nat_Numeracy
@derbycollege
I’m doing research into how maths attitudes affect performance. Please join in or promote to your network/students. Thanks!
#FEeducation
#FEmaths
#JoyFE
@dr_tom_hunt
@JoyceIHuiChen1
@El_Timbre
@BSRLM_maths
@BeraPostcomp
@LSRNetwork
#CfEM
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Fantastic turn out at a maths anxiety workshop with teachers in a local Derby infant school today. Sharing ideas to reduce anxiety in the classroom and increase mathematical resilience and growth mindset
@DerbyOppArea
@joboaler
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My 14 y/o daughter: dad, your work sounds really interesting.
Me: look at this spreadsheet I created to keep track of all my projects!
10 mins of discussion about my work.....
Daughter walks off: I want a cool job like that when I'm older.
Me: You can 😃
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Thanks again to
@charlesmuwonge3
for an insightful interactive live streamed lecture on academic motivation for science learning (perspectives from East Africa). Students on my Psychology in Education module loved it.
#beyondWEIRDpsych
@DerbyUni
@DerbyUniPsych
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@FrankOnTheRadio
The smell of the filler that is used to fill holes in cars created by rust - in the 80s and 90s my grandad used to be constantly sorting his car out to the point where half his car was filler. The whiff of it always remind me of my grandad 😅
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Proud to be a part of this!
As part of our commitment to work together to build
#healthyhappyschools
, we've been collaborating with leading thinkers across the country to tackle maths anxiety. Read the new
#PowerofMaths
guide:
#WMHD
#WorldMentalHealthDay
#mathschat
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