Cathy Smith

Cathy Smith joined the School of Mathematics and Statistics in 2017 with a brief to refresh the curriculum in the degree Mathematics and its Learning. Since then she has been teaching and designing materials for new Level 3 modules about Learning and Doing Algebra and Geometry.   Her own schooling was in Uganda, France and England and, after a maths degree, she taught mathematics in secondary comprehensive schools in Hertfordshire and Suffolk. Juggling part-time work and her three children, Cathy completed a PhD and is now a teacher educator and researcher interested in teachers’ mathematical language and how adolescents – particularly girls - make sense of themselves as mathematicians. She really enjoys knitting and sewing – geometry in action!

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