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Assessments should be a roadmap, not just a final score. 🗺️📐 Join the Fields Institute MathEd Forum on March 28 (10AM–2PM) as we reframe assessment from "Measurement to Meaning." We’ll dive into EQAO and PISA data to bridge the gap between provincial results and classroom action. 📍 222 College St, Toronto 🔗 Register: fields.utoronto.ca/activities/25-… #MathEd #OntEd #EQAO #PISA #STEM #FieldsInstitute

@LaurierEdu is looking for a one-year Assistant Professor in mathematics education. Review the posting here: careers.wlu.ca/job/Waterloo-A… Please share widely and consider applying. @cmesg @FieldsMathEd

Queen’s Dr. Lynda Colgan earns King Charles III Coronation Medal for her work in math education—textbooks, Prime Radicals TV show, & outreach like Science Rendezvous. #MathEd #QueensU #CoronationMedal queensu.ca/gazette/storie…

The Peter Taylor Professorship in Mathematics & Statistics is advancing math education at @queensu! Honouring Dr. Taylor’s 55 years of service, it will drive research, enhance learning, and expand Queen’s global impact. Read more: bit.ly/40K9gwM @QUartsci

👏Congratulations to Dr. Lauren DeDieu, who gave a fantastic 2024 Margaret Sinclair Memorial Award Lecture over the weekend! 🍎Nominate an exceptional early-career math educator for the 2025 Margaret Sinclair Memorial Award! Details here: bit.ly/3TP6VxS

MathEd Forum: September 28, 2024 / Margaret Sinclair Memorial Award Lecture: Lauren DeDieu **Building Relationships through Mathematics Outreach** @OAMEcounts @ActuaCanada @canmathsociety Read more and register: fields.utoronto.ca/activities/24-…

Recording from January 2024 MathEd Forum (New Initiatives, Methods, and Directions in University Undergraduate Mathematics Education) Pauline Hellio, Ghislaine Gueudet, & Aude Caussarieu (@UnivParisSaclay), Igor’ Kontorovich (@AucklandUni), Panelists buff.ly/3vp0rg5

Recordings from February 2024 MathEd Forum (In and Of the World: Framing Mathematics) Talk: What’s Mathematics Education Got To Do With the Ecosystem Crisis? by Richard Barwell (University of Ottawa @uOttawa) buff.ly/3Pw54M8

Recordings from February 2024 MathEd Forum (In and Of the World: Framing Mathematics) Talk: What Do We Mean By “Mathematics”? by Eva Thanheiser @Thanheiser (Portland State University @Portland_State) buff.ly/3VvrYHq

The 2023 Margaret Sinclair Award Lecture is being delivered by Lynda Colgan on September 23, 2023 (and associated Forum) from 10am to 2pm EST at the Fields Institute. Join us to hear from educator-researcher collaborations for kindergarten numeracy support, and more.

Are you an educator who works with elementary students (or know one)? The @FieldsInstitute has launched  3 courses for elementary educators to help boost skills and confidence in the mathematics. Details can be found at fieldsacademy.ca/eec/

Conference Alert! Fostering Learning of Statistics and Data Science (July 11-13) organized by 2023  International Association for Statistical Education (ISI-IASE) & International Association for Statistical Computation (ISI-IASC) iase2023satellite.github.io/program.html

Applications alert! @pimsmath is hosting the online DREAMs program (July 24 to Aug 4) for high school students to explore higher level math with profs and industry experts. Apply here: pims.math.ca/educational-ev… DM for more details.

Fields MathEd Forum - February 2023 First Year College Mathematics: The Reality, The Expectations, and What’s Ahead. Join us online or in person at Humber College North campus on February 25. Pre-registration is required. portal.fields.utoronto.ca/personal-porta…

Attention elementary MathEd friends: Which candy makes for the best Base 10 blocks? [Asking for an 8-year-old who swears this is strictly about learning and not at all about access to a metric ton of sugar].

Looking fwd to this PD & symposium. April 26 & 27-29 @BrockUniversity #Coding, #ComputationalModelling, #Equity #Mathematics #Education. Sessions, working grps, posters, panels. Keynotes on powerful ideas & coded bias in #AI. Early years to post-secondary cpmath.ca/scientific-pro…

The deadline for submission of abstracts for the 2023 Fields MathEd Forum Research Day is this Monday Dec 12! We are interested in Research Reports, Short Oral, and Poster presentations for our virtual event on Jan 28. Submissions are accepted here: forms.gle/jmAjp48qUiuATS…

MathEd Forum Nov. 2022: Mathematicians Leading Mathematics Education Join us on Saturday November 26, 2022, 10am to 2pm EST as we discuss the role mathematicians play in mathematics education. Registration: fields.utoronto.ca/cgi-bin/regist…

For those who are interested in continuing to participate online, we will continue to maintain a hybrid connection to the events via Zoom and a multi-camera setup at the Fields Institute! You can use the following registration link throughout the year: fields.utoronto.ca/cgi-bin/regist…

Today we are back to our first in-person Forum since 2020! To all of those who will be joining us at the Fields Institute, see you soon!