New #job Learning Coordinator @bletchleypark.bsky.social #SouthEast Apply by 3 April 2025. Full details here: gem.org.uk/jobs/learnin...
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Here's a question for you: "STEM" or "STEAM"? (With a reminder that your answers are invalid if you don't show your working) #MathsToday #GLAM-Ed
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Which other famous people from history tend to have the mathematical side of their contributions ignored? Who else deserves to be remembered as a mathematician as much as for their other achievements? Add them to this list! #mathstoday #GLAM-Ed #UKMathsChat #museums
Doing some research for my book and I've ended up at the website for the Kerala Museum (India). In the top-right corner of the website you can select different personas that customise your experience of the website: Educator, Explorer, or Student. I love this idea!
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#MuseumEducators are a bit thin on the ground in the Fediverse and I'd really like to collect some more!
So do you work in a #museum, #gallery, #archive, #library or other #heritage sector organisation in a role which focuses on #learning and #education? Please say hi, especially if you're in the UK!
If not, do you know anybody who does? Please introduce us!
If neither of the above fit then a boost would still be very much appreciated.
Note: When I post things like this I tend to get helpful replies about following #tags: I know this, and I do! I'm looking for people rather than posts: there aren't many of either and the relevant #tags are just so much tumbleweed so far. There _must_ be museum educators out there somewhere (but they're not posting about museum education things because they haven't found anyone else who cares...): I'm trying to build that community.
I'm going to see the Art of the Brick #exhibition today!
I'm a bit of a #Lego fan, but it always reminds me of one of the years we (at Bletchley Park) won "Best Venue for #Mathematics #Learning" at the School Travel Awards. To my knowledge we won it every year it existed, and it disappeared as a category after three goes. Each time we won I looked up the runners-up to see what the competition were doing (in the spirit of "steal, steal, steal; but steal from the best"), but each time I never really discovered anything that I'd consider genuinely mathematical (so no wonder the category disappeared).
One year, Legoland Windsor were a runner-up and, as far as I could tell their 'mathematics' offer was using bricks as a disappointingly abstract prompt to practise memorisation of times tables.
We can do better than this in the #heritage sector - some already do - but we need to make engaging with mathematics a _normal_, everyday thing that #museums, #galleries, #archives and #libraries do, and not just through their formal learning programmes.
The maths provision in the formal learning programme at Bletchley Park was excellent, but there's no way we should have been such a standout winner in that category every time it ran.
I'm always excited to hear about maths being explored by museums, whether it's part of school trips or (and this is the dream) in its exhibitions.
Some relevant links:
- Art of the Brick: https://theartofthebrickexpo.com/london/
- School Travel Awards: https://www.schooltravelorganiser.com/school-travel-awards
