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Barbara Allen is the director of the Centre for Mathematics Education (CME) at The Open University.

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Newton: The Expert ViewProduction team

By Barbara Allen (The Open University), Professor Robin Wilson (The Open University)

21 October 2004

Discovering gravity was only part of Isaac Newton's immense contribution to mathematics and science, Robin Wilson and Barbara Allen describe his rise from humble beginnings...  Read more : Newton: The Expert View

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Allen, Barbara (2010). The primary mathematics specialists – what do they think about teaching and learning mathematics? In: British Congress for Mathematics Education, 6-9 Apr 2010, Manchester.

De Geest , E.; Mason, J. and Allen, B. (2010). Using experiential pedagogy in practice-based learning at a distance. In: EDULEARN10: International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies, 5-7 July 2010, Barcelona.

Allen, Barbara (2009). What students want: a friendly mathematics classroom. In: Mason, John and Houssart, Jenny eds. Listening Figures: Listening to Learners of Mathematics at Secondary School and Above. Trentham Books.

Allen, Barbara (2009). Pupils’ perceptions of setting. In: Houssart, Jenny and Mason, John eds. Listening Counts: Listening to Young Learners of Mathematics. Trentham Books.

Mason, J.; De Geest, E. and Allen, B. (2009). Practice-based learning in mathematics education at a distance. In: CETL Conference, 2009, Open University, Milton Keynes.

Allen, Barbara and Johnston-Wilder, Sue (2004). Mathematics Education: Exploring the culture of learning. London, UK: Routledge.

Allen, Barbara (2004). Pupils’ perspectives on learning mathematics. In: Allen, Barbara and Johnston-Wilder, Sue eds. Mathematics Education: Exploring the culture of learning. UK: Routledge, pp. 233–242.

Ruffell, Moyra; Mason, John and Allen, Barbara (1998). Studying attitude to mathematics. Educational studies in Mathematics, 35 pp. 1–18.

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Barbara Allen is the director of the Centre for Mathematics Education (CME) at The Open University. She has written on a variety of courses at The Open University including Passport to Mathematics, Breakthrough to Mathematics, Science and Technology and Teaching Mathematical Thinking at Key Stage 3. Her research interests are pupils' perceptions of their lives in mathematics classrooms. She is also the co-author of a series of children's science adventure stories called The Spark Files.

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