Professor Dave Pratt
- Qualifications and position:
- BSc (Hons), PGCE, MEd, PhD
- Professor of Mathematics Education
- Faculty Director of Research, Consultancy and Knowledge Transfer
- Faculty:
- Faculty of Culture and Pedagogy
- Department:
- Department of Geography, Enterprise, Mathematics and Science
- Summary:
- My interests include all aspects of mathematics education but in research and doctoral supervision, I mostly focus on: (i) the relationship between technology and mathematical thinking; (ii) statistical thinking including probability, exploratory data analysis and risk; (iii) designing for mathematical abstraction; (iv) the micro-evolution of mathematical knowledge.
- Teaching:
- MA Mathematics Education
PhD Supervision
- Research Projects:
- Postgraduate Research:
- Research Interests:
(i) the relationship between technology and mathematical thinking;
(ii) statistical thinking including probability, exploratory data analysis and risk;
(iii) designing for mathematical abstraction;
(iv) the micro-evolution of mathematical knowledge.
Current postgraduate researchers:
1. Hasan Akyuzlu on "The micro-evolution of knowledge about risk".
2. Mojtaba Ammari Allahyari on "Modelling recursion".
3. Alice Hansen on "Children's geometric defining and a principled approach to task design".
4. Ian Jones on "Equivalence in arithmetic statements".
5. Kate Mackrell on "The principled resourcing of teaching and learning about 3D geometry".
6. Nicole Panorkou on "Thinking about dimension in geometric tasks".
7. Maria Pericleous on "Proving in geometric tasks".
8. Mandy Simpson on "The microevolution and transfer of conceptual knowledge about negative numbers".
- Professional Activities:
- 2004 – current member of editorial board for the International Journal of Computers for Mathematical Learning
2004 – current Associate Editor for the Statistics Education Research Journal, a refereed e-journal launched in early 2002 by the International Association for Statistics Education
July, 2008 Co-Chair for panel on "Research and development in the teaching and learning of probability", International Congress for Mathematics Education, Monterrey, Mexico.
July, 2008 Chair for panel on "Technology in the teaching of statistics: potentials and challenges in preparing the teachers", Joint ICME/IASE Study on "Statistics Education in School Mathematics: Challenges for Teaching and Teacher Education", Monterrey, Mexico.
2007– 2008 Co-Editor of special issue on informal inference for the Statistics Education Research Journal
Aug, 2007 Host for The Fifth Conference on Statistical Reasoning, Thinking and Literacy, Warwick, UK.
Feb, 2007 Co-organiser of the Stochastics Working Group of The Fifth Conference of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education, Cyprus.
July, 2006 Convenor of "The principles of software design" in The Seventh International Conference on Teaching Statistics, Brazil, 2006.
July, 2005 Leader of the Stochastics Working Group of The Fourth Conference of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education, Spain.
July, 2004 Leader of the Stochastics Working Group of The Third Conference of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education, Bellaria, Italy.
June, 2003 Convenor of "Stochastics" in The Sixth International Conference on Teaching Statistics, Cape Town, South Africa.
May, 2003 Keynote lecture on of the role of the virtual and the physical in children's learning, raising the problem of transfer at Neothemi conference on Cultural Heritage and ICT: Theory & Practice, Helsinki, Finland.
2001 Guest editor for special issue of Educational Studies in Mathematics, 45.
- Conferences/presentations:
- Thinking-in-change about informal statistical inference., The Fifth International Research Forum on Statistical Reasoning, Thinking and Literacy. University of Warwick, August, 2007.
Designing for Abstraction and Knowledge in Pieces, Invited contribution towards a Symposium on Thinking Through Representations. Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, USA, April, 2007
An elaboration of the design construct of phenomenalisation. Proceedings of The Seventh International Conference on Teaching Statistics, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, July, 2006.
- Website / Blogsite:
Contact details
- Email: D.Pratt@ioe.ac.uk
Address:- Department of Geography, Enterprise, Mathematics and Science
Institute of Education
University of London
20 Bedford Way
London WC1H 0AL
Office Location:- Room 812
20 Bedford Way, WC1H 0AL
Publications
- Pratt, D., Johnston-Wilder, P., Ainley, J. and Mason, J. (in press) 'Local and global thinking in statistical inference', Statistics Education Research Journal
- Jones, I. and Pratt, D. (2006) 'Connecting the equal sign', International Journal of Computers for Mathematical Learning 11(3), 301-325.
- Prodromou, T. and Pratt, D. (2006) 'The Role of Causality in the Coordination of Two Perspectives on Distribution within a Virtual Simulation', Statistics Education Research Journal 5(2), 69-88.
- Ainley, J., Pratt, D. and Hansen, A (2006) 'Connecting engagement and focus in pedagogic task design', British Educational Research Journal 32(1), 21-36.
- Pratt, D. and Noss, R. (2002) 'The Micro-Evolution of Mathematical Knowledge: The Case of Randomness', Journal of the Learning Sciences 11(4), 453-488.
- Ainley, J., Pratt, D. and Nardi, E. (2001) 'Normalising: children's activity to construct meanings for trend', Educational Studies in Mathematics 45, 131-146.
- Pratt, D. (2000) 'Making Sense of the Total of Two Dice', Journal for Research in Mathematics Education 31(5), 602-625.
- Ainley, J., Nardi, E. and Pratt, D. (2000) 'Towards the Construction of Meanings for Trend in Active Graphing', International Journal of Computers for Mathematical Learning 5(2), 85-114.
- Pratt, D.C. and Ainley, J. (1995) 'The Construction of Meanings for Geometric Construction: Two Contrasting Cases', International Journal of Computers for Mathematical Learning 1(3), 293-322.
- Pratt, D.C. (1995) 'Young Children's Active And Passive Graphing', Journal of Computer Assisted Learning 11, 157-169.
