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Clare trained as a secondary mathematics teacher at Reading University
and has taught in comprehensive schools in Oxfordshire and the West
Midlands before becoming the Research Fellow on the Kings Medway
Formative Assessment Project. Since then she has worked as a LA adviser
before joining Warwick University and then moving to the Open University.
She has worked with Sue on developing the construct “Mathematical
Resilience”, working with schools and teachers and in particular with the
students themselves to consider how teaching can enable students to use
the resilience that they display in many areas of life to learn, use and
control mathematics both to pass exams and to empower them in their
lives after school.
Sue trained as a secondary mathematics teacher at Cambridge University
and taught in London comprehensive schools. Since then she has worked
in mathematics education for Kings College London, the Open University
and Warwick University. She has published widely including the Sage
'Developing Thinking in Mathematics' series. Sue was Chair of the
Association of Teachers of Mathematics 2005-2009. In collaboration with
Clare Lee, working with students, teachers, school leaders, and parents,
she has developed the construct 'Mathematical Resilience' as a positive
framework for working with schools and families on 'the maths problem'.
In collaboration with The Progression Trust and ASDAN, she has
developed a programme for developing Coaches for Mathematical
Resilience, so that mathematically anxious adults can support
mathematics learners, from where they are now with their mathematics.
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Clare Lee
Sue Johnston-Wilder