Dr Gwen Ineson

Gwen Ineson joined the school of Sport and Education in 2005. Her background is in primary education. She gained a BA degree in Education (Mathematics) at Warwick University, an MA in Education at the University of London’s Institute of Education and a Doctorate in Education at Brunel University. She taught in primary schools in North London for ten years before taking up her current post, teaching on the Primary PGCE course in Mathematics and General Professional Studies.

Research Interests

Her main research area involves the exploration of the relationships between the incidence of connected mathematical thinking in children and trainee teachers of primary mathematics and their mental mathematics competence, confidence and strategy choices in the context of the Primary Mathematics. Her doctoral work used design-based research to design an intervention programme to develop the mental mathematics of trainee teachers for teaching.

Publications

Journal Papers

(2008) Ineson, EG., The Mental Mathematics of Trainee Teachers in the UK: Patterns and Preferences, The Mathematics Educator 11 (1/2) : 127- 142

(2008) Ineson, EG., Trainee Teachers: changes in approach to developing a “connected” understanding of mathematics, Perspectives in Education 26 (2)

(2007) Ineson, EG., Year 6 children: has the new British mathematics curriculum helped their mental computation?, Early Child Development and Care 177 (5) : 541- 555