Programme

Fri 19th Oct

TimeEvent
20.00Annual Dinner
21.30Fr. Ingram Memorial Lecture by Fiacre Ó Cairbre Maynooth University 'Beauty and Freedom in the History of Mathematics.'

Sat 20th Oct

TimeSpeakerTopic
9.30 - 10.00Registration
10.00 - 10.50Merrilyn Goos, UL Why teachers matter in times of mathematics curriculum reform
10.50 - 11.20Break
11.20 - 12.10Aedamar Frawley
Grange Vocational School and Stephen Eustace St. Joseph's Secondary School
Using Microsoft Surface/IT in the classroom
12.10 - 13.00Aidan Fitzsimons, DCUNurturing the problem solving abilities of high achieving second level students
13.00 - 13.45Lunch
13.45 - 14.35Niamh O Meara, UL Issues affecting the transition from primary to post primary mathematics
14.35 - 15.25Shane Flanagan, JCTJunior Cycle Maths developments
15.25 - 16.15Pam O Brien, LIT
Neil Butler, Secondary Teacher
Learning by making
16.15 - 16.45AGM

Speaker Info

SpeakerPhotoSpecialist Area
Fiacre Ó Ciarbre
Maynooth University
fiacre.ocairbre@mu.ie
Has published papers including 'A Resource for Transition Year Mathematics Teachers. ' and 'Mathematics education and the public's interaction with the Hamilton story'
Professor Merrilyn Goos, UL



m.goos@uq.edu.au
Merrilyn is Professor of STEM Education and Director of EPI*STEM at the National Centre for STEM Education, at the University of Limerick, Ireland.
Aedamar Frawley
Grange Vocational School
Twitter:
@aedamar_frawley
CT Digital Key Skills & Maths Associate
Microsoft Educator Trainer
Math & English Teacher
Stephen Eustace St. Joseph's Secondary School @eustace_stephenTeacher of Maths & Accounting #MIEExpert 'We are passionate about the impact that ICT has on education and in particular the power of OneNote to make every lesson'
Aidan Fitzsimons, DCU


aidan.fitzsimons4@mail.dcu.ie
Aidan Fitzsimons currently works at the School of Mathematical Sciences, Dublin City University. Aidan does research in Mathematics Education
Niamh O Meara, UL
Twitter:
@MearaNiamh
PhD in Mathematics Education, MSc in Mathematical Modelling

Lecturer in Mathematics Education, UL
Shane Flanagan, JCT


shane.flanagan@jct.ie
Junior Cycle for Teachers
Team Leader for Maths
Pam O Brien, LIT







https://pamobriensblog.wordpress.com/
Maths and Programming Lecturer in LIT with passion for integrating technology in education. Organiser of the ICT in Education conference
Neil Butler, Secondary Teacher
Twitter:
@mrNeilButler
Teacher. Maths, ASN, IT, Applied Maths. Game-based learning, Geogebra. Occasional Musician. One third of @mathsmeetie.