Institute of Education London

Professor Dave Pratt

• • BSc (Hons), PGCE, MEd, PhD
  • Professor of Mathematics Education
  • Faculty Director for Research
• Faculty:
  • Faculty of Children and Learning
• Department:
  • Department of Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment
• 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; (v) perceptions of risk.
• Teaching:
  • MA Mathematics Education
    PhD Supervision
• Research:
  • Promoting Teachers' Understanding of Risk in Socio-Scientific Issues
    Kaleidoscope Virtual Doctoral School on Design Research
    Kaleidoscope JEIRP on Learning Patterns for the design and deployment of mathematical games
    EC Framework 5 E-Muse
    Kaleidoscope JEIRP on Visual Interactive Blocks
    EC Framework 5 Webkit
    ESRC (R 000 23 1844) Children's Interpretation of Graphs within a Computer Based Pedagogy
• Postgraduate Research:
  • 1. Sarah Tibbats on "Stakeholder perceptions of flood risk"
    2. Khosrow Davoodi on "Teaching and learning functions using dynamic software"
    4. Nicole Panorkou on "A phenomenographic study of students' experiences of dimension"
    5. Maria Pericleous on "Proving in geometric tasks"
    6. Kate Mackrell on "Facilitating algebraic thinking in a dynamic geometry environment"
• Professional Activities:
  • Current since 2004 – member of editorial board for 'Technology, Knowledge and Learning'
    Current since 2004 – Associate Editor for the Statistics Education Research Journal
    2011 - Co-editor of Special Issue in ZDM on 'Probability in reasoning about data and risk'
    2011 - Leader of the Stochastics Working Group of The Seventh Conference of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education, Rzeszow, Poland
    2010 - Convenor of 'Making Sense of Risk' in The Eighth International Conference on Teaching Statistics, Ljubljana, Slovenia
    2008 - Co-Chair for panel on "Research and development in the teaching and learning of probability", International Congress for Mathematics Education, Monterrey, Mexico
    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
    2008 - Co-Editor of special issue on 'Informal inference' for the Statistics Education Research Journal
    2007 - Host for The Fifth Conference on Statistical Reasoning, Thinking and Literacy, Warwick, UK
    2006 - Convenor of 'The principles of software design' in The Seventh International Conference on Teaching Statistics, Brazil, 2006
    2006 - Leader of the 'Stochastics Working Group' of The Fourth Conference of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education, Spain
    2004 - Leader of the 'Stochastics Working Group' of The Third Conference of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education, Bellaria, Italy
    2003 - Convenor of 'Stochastics' in The Sixth International Conference on Teaching Statistics, Cape Town, South Africa
    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 - Co-editor for special issue of Educational Studies in Mathematics, 45.
• Conferences/presentations:
  • 1. Pratt, D. (2011). Re-connecting probability and reasoning about data in secondary school teaching, in 'Teaching Courses in Probability Modeling'. ISI. Dublin
    2. Ainley, J. & Pratt, D. (2011). Sampling: What's the point?'. SRTL 7. Amsterdam.
    3. Pratt, D. & Yogui, C. (2010). A constructionist approach to a contested area of knowledge, Constructionism 2010.
    4. Prodromou, T. & Pratt, D. (2010). Discriminating "signal" and "noise" in computer-generated data, Proceedings of the 34th Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Belo Horizonte, Brazil: PME.
    5. Kent, P., Pratt, D., Levinson, R., Yogui, C. & Kapadia, R. (2010). Teaching uncertainty and risk in mathematics and science, Proceedings of Eighth International Conference on Teaching Statistics, Ljubljana, Slovenia
    6. Pratt, D. & Noss, R. (2010). Designing for mathematical abstraction, The 7th Biennial Meeting of the EARLI Special Interest Group on Conceptual Change, Leuven.
    7. Pratt, D., Ainley, J., Kent, P., Yogui, C. & Kapadia, R. (in press, 2009). Informal inferential reasoning as a contextualized risk-based enterprise. Proceedings of the Sixth International Research Forum on Statistical Reasoning, Thinking and Literacy. Retrieved from: http://srtl.stat.auckland.ac.nz/srtl6/research_forums.
    8. Panorkou, N. & Pratt, D. (2009). Mapping the experience of dimension. In M. Tzekaki, M. Kaldrimidou & H. Sakonidis (Eds), Proceedings of the Thirty-Third International Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. Vol. 4, pp 281-288 Thessaloniki, Greece.
    9. Prodromou, T., & Pratt, D. (2008). The emergence of stochastic causality. Proceedings of the Thirty Second Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of MathematicsEducation, Vol. 1, pp. 137-144). Morelia, Mexico.
    10. Pratt, D. (2007). Designing for Abstraction and Knowledge in Pieces, in 'Thinking Through Representations' at AERA, Chicago.
• Website / Blogsite:
  • http://people.ioe.ac.uk/dave_pratt