MathsThroughStories.org Newsletter (Summer 2021 Issue)

Welcome to the Summer 2021 issue of
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RESULTS OF THE 2021 'YOUNG MATHEMATICAL STORY AUTHOR (YMSA)' COMPETITION

626 students from 62 schools and homeschooling sites across 12 countries around the world participated in our YMSA competition this year, making it our biggest competition so far!

The YMSA competition is the world's first annual international competition set up back in 2019 to encourage young mathematics learners (8-15 years old) from around the world to embed their mathematics learning in a meaningful and engaging context through creating their own mathematical story picture book. This competition is organised by MathsThroughStories.org

We are super excited to share with you the results of both the Stuart J. Murphy Award (the 8-11 years old category) and the Cindy Neuschwander Award (the 12-15 years old category). You can see the results by clicking on the relevant photos below.

Many congratulations to the authors of the winning, shortlisted and longlisted entries! The winner in each category receives £100 and their school another £100. For the third year in a row, the Awards are generously funded by HarperCollins and Charlesbridge.

We are also pleased to see that our competition is very inclusive with with 389 females students, 235 male students and two self-identified gender-fluid students participated in the competition this year.

You can also read the winning and shortlisted entries of our competition from the previous years here: 2019 and 2020.

To learn more our competition next year (2022), please click here. We very much look forward to see many more students in many more schools across many more countries participating in our competition next Spring!

The Stuart J. Murphy Award
(The 8-11 years old category)

You can see the results and read the winning, shortlisted and longlisted entries by clicking on the photo below.

The Cindy Neuschwander Award
(The 12-15 years old category)

You can see the results and read the winning, shortlisted and longlisted entries by clicking on the photo below.

LATEST BOOK REVIEWS

Visit our Book Reviews page for our reviews of 100+ mathematical stories.

Click here to read our review of Suzanne Morris's ‘A Trapezoid is not a Dinosaur!’ (2019) with a focus on 2D shapes for children aged 5+ years old.

Click here to read our review of ‘Too Many Pillows’ (2021) by Angela M. Isaacs and the Purdue Early Achievement Research Labs. The story has a focus on measurement comparison for children aged 4+ years old.

Click here to read our review of ‘Just Enough Eggs' (2021) by Angela M. Isaacs and the Purdue Early Achievement Research Labs. The story has a focus on measurement comparison for children aged 4+ years old.

Click here to read our review of ‘Picnic with Some Peanuts' (2021) by Angela M. Isaacs and the Purdue Early Achievement Research Labs. The story has a focus on measurement comparison for children aged 4+ years old.

LATEST BLOG POSTS

We hope you will enjoy reading our blog posts below.

Visit the Blog section on our websites for more blog posts.

A new series of mathematical stories in Italian

Authored by Germano Pettarin (Universities of Venice and Padua, Italy), this blog post is designed to introduce you to a new series of mathematical stories in Italian language. While many of us might not be fortunate enough to be able to read and understand Italian, it can still be interesting to learn about the world of mathematical stories outside the English-speaking world.

MATHS THROUGH STORIES TRAINING WORKSHOPS

To date, Dr. Trakulphadetkrai (founder of MathsThroughStories.org) has delivered the Maths Through Stories training workshops to over 1,200 in-service teachers and more than 2,000 teacher trainees across the UK and abroad.

Consequently, MathsThroughStories.org has become the largest and most trusted training provider on integrating story picture books in mathematics teaching and learning.

Details of his recent workshops can be found below, and details of his upcoming workshops can be found here.

If your school, local educational authority or teacher education programme (both within or outside the UK) is interested in receiving training from Dr. Trakulphadetkrai at your institution, please get in touch with him directly here.

RECENT MATHS THROUGH STORIES WORKSHOPS

LATEST WEBSITE STATS

Since the launch of our website on 2 March 2017 (the World Book Day), MathsThroughStories.org has now been viewed over 960,000 times by more than 240,000 teachers and parents from over 210 countries around the world! This is truly amazing and a reflection of your growing desire to learn more about how mathematical story picture books can be integrated meaningfully in mathematics teaching and learning.

To find out more about these statistics, click here for a full Google Analytics report.

MathsThroughStories.org is a non-profit and research-based initiative. It sets out to encourage teachers and parents globally to use stories to enhance mathematics teaching.

We firmly believe that the use of mathematical stories, particularly in the picture book format, can help mathematics learners develop their conceptual understanding in mathematical concepts and foster positive attitudes towards the subject.