MT talk team

MT talk

Education EN ↓ 3 episodes

The MT talk podcast is a space for conversations about mathematics teaching, based on articles published in Mathematics Teaching, the journal of the Association of Teachers of Mathematics. Led by friends and former colleagues Elizabeth Bridgett, Lisa Coe, Fin McLaughlin and Jay Timotheus, each episode features discussion about a classic and a recent article from MT.

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Episode 3: Why is teaching dividing fractions so difficult? 07.02.2026 28:14

Dividing fractions is the focus for this episode. This is a topic which is well known to be difficult for learners to understand. This episode is a conversation between Elizabeth Bridgett, Lisa Coe and Jay Timotheus and is centred on two articles: Sam Brace’s Awareness of the division of fractions: keep your flipping change to yourself! from MT297, published in 2025, and Pete Griffin’s Doing and c...

Episode 2. Everyone can think mathematically. 02.09.2025 28:24

In this episode, Lisa Coe, Fin McLaughlin and Jay Timotheus talk about John Mason's 1987 article, "Only awareness is educable" from MT120, alongside Tom Francome's 2025 article, "Everyone can think mathematically" from MT296. Fin recommended two books in this episode: Thinking Mathematically, by John Mason, Leone Burton and Kaye Stacey (Pearson, 1982, and 2010) and Researching Your Own Practice: T...

Episode 1. MT talk about talk! 31.08.2025 29:49

In this episode, Elizabeth Bridgett, Lisa Coe and Jay Timotheus compare and contrast Mike Askew's 1999 article, "Teaching numeracy: will we ever learn?" from MT168 with Jane Hawkins' much more recent, 2025 article, "Why purposeful talk in mathematics lessons matters" in MT296. Also mentioned in this episode is the 1999 paper "Arbitrary and Necessary Part 1: A Way of Viewing the Mathematics Curricu...