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1. Apologies
Apologies were
received from:
June
Barrow-Green British Society for the History of Mathematics
Janet
Dallas DfES
Lynn
Churchman Office of Standards in Education
Tony
Holloway Awdurdod Cymwysterau,
Cwricwlwm ac Asesu Cymru
(The Qualifications, Curriculum
and Assessment
Authority for Wales)
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2. Welcome to new representatives
Peter
Cooper acting as alternate for Peter Saunders
Diana
Coben from Adults Learning Mathematics
Richard Browne acting as alternate for Alice Onion
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3. Minutes of the meeting of 14th November 2003
Accepted
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4. Matters arising from the minutes
Need
for someone to take minutes for both Executive Committee and
Council meeting. Chair sought a volunteer from
representatives present or from their organisations who
could be co-opted to take minutes. Discussion ensued on
content of minutes. Minutes to record simply the
decisions made and the action points. If the discussion
leads to a resolution then a summary of the key points
needs to be minuted. The Chair added later in the meeting
that verbal reports will be minuted simply as ‘verbal report
given’ unless a summary is submitted by email. The
shorter minutes required may resolve the issue with minute
taking.
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David
Martin
to take minutes today
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5. Reports from Officers
i) Chair – discussion on start time.
The start times
of the next two meetings were fixed for
11:00
(with coffee from 10:30). Meetings in the future with
shorter programmes could start at 11:30.
ii) Secretary – nothing to report
iii) Treasurer - All but one subscription in (2nd
reminder sent out for this). Thanks to all
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6. Report from ACME (Celia Hoyles)
Report
as submitted. Chair expressed thanks to ACME.
JMC
would support ACME’s aim for sufficient lead time for the
recruitment of new members. |
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7. Reports from Members
i)
Royal Statistical Society (Gerald Goodall). Report as
submitted. RSS has included a careers section on its won
website as well as contributing to the CMS project. Peter
Cooper reported that some funding had been secured for this
project. |
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8.
Standing Committees
i)
BCME report on planning for BCME 2005 (Joe Kyle).
Report as submitted. Note: website address is
www.BCME6.org
ii)
ICME Report on (Derek Woodrow)
a.
Funding for ICME 2004 – verbal report given. JMC
would welcome any support TTA or GTC(E) could give to
teachers.
b.
Proposal for UK to host ICME 12 – verbal report given |
Derek
Woodrow to approach societies for members for the proposed
planning group. |
9.
Higher Education
(Peter
Cooper) – verbal report given
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10.
Teacher Education
(Dave
Miller) – verbal report given
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11.
JMC Website
(Bill
Richardson)
i)
Website
http://mcs.open.ac.uk/jmc/ will be updated soon.
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12. Update on current developments
i)
TTA
(Alf Brown - report as submitted)
ii)
QCA
(Richard Brown – report as submitted)
iii)
ACCAC
(Tony Holloway – report as submitted)
iv)
OFSTED
(Lynn Churchman – reports as submitted)
v)
NNS
and KS3 Strategy
(Graham Smart– report as submitted) |
New
recruitment material for mathematics available on request
(brwona@tta.gov.org) |
13. Dates of future meetings
i)
Thursday 10th June 2004 at 11:00
ii)
Tuesday 2nd November 2004 AGM at 11:00
immediately followed
by Council meeting |
Sue
Sanders
to arrange provisional dates for 2005 meetings by email |
14. AOB
i)
JMC role
a.
Working
party ideas
i.
Post
Adrian Smith report
1.
CPD
2.
Curriculum
The CPD
working party is to be set up. Adrian Oldknow volunteered to
lead this working party.
b. Awareness raising within our membership
is to be
developed through focused use of Reports from
Members.
For the June 2004 meeting members are to write a
short
paragraph (50 words) about their organisation and list
questions they would want other organisations to
answer.
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Action
All |
Discussion item
“The
Vision for Mathematics and Computing Colleges’ role within
the mathematics community”: Graham Corbyn, Advisor to the
Mathematics and Computing Colleges. Powerpoint presentation
available from Hon Sec on request. |
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