Professor Celia Hoyles
- Qualifications and position:
- PhD
- Professor of Mathematics Education
- Faculty:
- Faculty of Culture and Pedagogy
- Department:
- Summary:
- Interests: policy, research (students' conceptions of proof. mathematical skills needed in modern workplaces, computational environments for learning and sharing mathematics) and systemic enhancement in teacher professional development in mathematics. 2004- 2007 Government Chief Adviser for Mathematics. Director of the National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics since 2007.
- Teaching:
- Masters and PhD teaching in Mathematics Education
- Research Projects:
- Intelligent Support for Mathematical Generalisation, MiGEN (EPSRC/ESRC-TLRP)
The Understanding Participation rates in post-16 Mathematics and Physics, UPMAP: (ESRC)
The National Centre for Excellence in the teaching of Mathematics, NCETM
- Postgraduate Research:
- Students' conceptions of proof. Mathematical skills needed in modern workplaces, computational environments for learning and sharing mathematics.
- Professional Activities:
- January 2004, awarded an OBE for services to mathematics education.
Also 2004, chosen by the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction ICMI as the first recipient of a new International medal, the Hans Freudenthal medal, as recognition of a cumulative programme of research.
Elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, 2003
Government Chief Adviser for Mathematics, Dec 2004 –2007
ongoing regular advice to Secretary of State and Ministers as well as to civil servants and others engaged in policy and practice of mathematics
Director of the National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics, June 2007-
Member of the advisory panel for the review into mathematics teaching in primary schools and early years settings, The Williams Review, 2007/8
Invited Co-Chair of ICMI Study on the use of digital technologies in Mathematics Education, Dec 2006
Elected to Executive Committee of the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction (ICMI) 2007
Honorary Doctorate of Philosophy, Open University 2006,
Honorary Doctorate of Science, University of Loughborough 2008.
Elected member of the Council of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, Autumn 2008
- Conferences/presentations:
- Invited keynote on "Research Paradigms on the Teaching and Learning of Proof, Providence Rhode Island, Oct 2007
Keynote at the annual conference for heads and Senior Leaders of the SSAT Mathematics and Computing Colleges, May 2008
Keynote address at four yearly International Congress on Mathematical Education, (ICME) Mexico July 2008
Invited keynote on "Research Paradigms on the Teaching and Learning of Proof, Providence Rhode Island, Oct 2007
Keynote at the annual conference for heads and Senior Leaders of the SSAT Mathematics and Computing Colleges, May 2008
Keynote address at four yearly International Congress on Mathematical Education, (ICME) Mexico July 2008
- Languages Spoken:
Contact details
- Email: C.Hoyles@ioe.ac.uk
Address:- London Knowledge Lab
Institute of Education
University of London
23-26 Emerald Street
London WC1N 3QS
Office Location:- 2nd Floor
23-26 Emerald Street, WC1N 3QS
Publications
- Noss, R., Bakker, A., Hoyles, C. and Kent, P. (2007) 'Situating graphs as workplace knowledge', Educational Studies in Mathematics 63(3), 367-384.
- Hoyles, C. and Noss, R. (2007) 'The Meanings of Statistical Variation in the Context of Work' In R. Lesh, E. Hamilton, J. and Kaput (eds), , Foundations for the Future in Mathematics Education. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
- Hoyles, C. and Healy, L. (2007) 'Curriculum Change and Geometrical Reasoning' In P. Boero (ed.), Theorems in School: From History, Epistemology and Cognition to Classroom Practice. Rotterdam: Sense.
- Hoyles, C., Bakker, A., Kent, P. and Noss, R. (2007) 'Attributing meanings to representations of data: The case of statistical process control', Mathematical Thinking and Learning 9(4), 331-360.
- Noss, R. and Hoyles, C. (2009) 'The Technological Mediation of Mathematics and Its Learning', Human Development, (special issue: 'Giving Meaning to Mathematical Signs: Psychological, Pedagogical and Cultural Processes') Vol 52, No 2, April, 129-147.
- Kaput, J., Noss, R. and Hoyles, C. (2008) 'Developing New Notations for a Learnable Mathematics in the Computational Era' In L. English (ed.), Handbook of International Research in Mathematics Education. New York: Routledge.
- Bakker, A., Kent P, Derry J, Noss, R. and Hoyles, C. (2008) 'Statistical Inference At Work: Statistical Process Control As An Example', Statistics Education Research Journal
- Hoyles, C. and Noss, R. (2008) 'Next Steps in Implementing Kaput's research Programme', Educational Studies in Mathematics 68(2), 85-94.
- Hoyles. C and Lagrange J-B. (eds) (in press) Digital technologies and mathematics teaching and learning: Rethinking the terrain. Dordrecht: Springer.
- Küchemann, D. and Hoyles, C. (2009) 'From computational to structural reasoning: tracking changes over time' In N. Blanton, M. Stylianou, D. Knuth, E. (eds), The Learning and Teaching of Proof Across the Grades. Hillsdale: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
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