Mr Peter Pool
Senior Research Fellow
Tel: +44 (0)113 3434622
Room: BT 2.12
Email: P.C.Pool@education.leeds.ac.uk
Primary mathematics education; assessment in mathematics; development of children's mathematical understanding; Computer effects on the maths curriculum.
Member of AEU.
Interests
I am a Project Officer in the Assessment and Evaluation Unit, currently working on a variety of research projects in mathematics education.
I have worked extensively in teaching and teacher training over the last thirty years. A substantial part of my professional career has been spent overseas on Teacher Training and Curriculum Development projects in Malaysia, Sierra Leone (West Africa), Namibia (Southern Africa), Bangladesh, The Solomon Islands and Indonesia, usually as part of aid projects in education.
In the last eleven years I have been involved in writing and developing test material in mathematics for Key Stage 2 SATs and World Class Tests. This latter project is concerned with test and classroom material for very able children at age 9 and 13 using paper and computer media.
My research interests are in the strategies that children (and adults) use to solve mathematics problems and in the metaphorical understandings that underpin our actions in mathematics.
Selected Publications
PAPERS
Pool, P (2003). "What do you do when you don't know what to do?". Mathematics Teaching, 182, 42-44.
CHAPTERS
QCA (2002). "A mathematics curriculum for the gifted and talented" in: C. Richardson (Ed.) Assessing Gifted and Talented Children. QCA.
Extended list of publications.
This page last updated by Karon McBride on 12th October 2005