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EAMS Day 2 Day 2 of EAMS had a LOT of speakers (of which I was one). I couldn't possibly hope to do justice to all the interesting and varied content presented so I'll just pick out a few things that caught my eye and made me think "hmmm....what if I tried that out with .....". The day started out with a Keynote from Paul Milner from nationalnumeracy.org.uk  entitled "Maths outside the Classroom".  Paul introduced us to some scary statistics about the lack of Numeracy among adults (in the uk, but have no reason to believe the story would be much different in Ireland). These poor levels of Numeracy in the working adult population are costing the UK economy approximately 1.3% of GDP. He made a great point that even if we somehow got the current education system 'perfect' it would take 50 years for this to address the adult numeracy problems. We were shown a diagram from the National Numeracy website showing the three key attitudes that an adult lea

E-Assessment in the Mathematical Sciences 2018 What is the EAMS Conference? Today I had the pleasure of attending day 1 of the EAMS 2018 conference in Newcastle University. EAMS stands for E-Assessment in Mathematical Sciences. I previously attended this conference in 2016 together with Julie Crowley but today I had to brave it alone. The content of the conference lands wonderfully somewhere in the intersections between Mathematics, Pedagogy, Education Technology and Computer Science. Each speaker seems to come at the problem of E-assessment in Maths from a slightly different perspective thus making the conference a fabulous melting pot of ideas and knowledge. I had this great idea to write a take aways blog post for each day. However when I actually sit down to write it I realise that I learned far too much today to easily to sum it all up in a neat little post with a snappy title. On top of that I had planned to write it immediately while things were still fresh but now I'm