Research

Maths Craft New Zealand strives to ensure that everything we do is not just engaging and enlightening, but actually useful in conveying mathematical thinking, and encouraging agency in mathematics. To verify that, we undertake a number of varied research projects. These projects typically result in peer-reviewed research publications as listed below. The names of Maths Craft team members who are authors are listed in bold. Some of these articles are paywalled, but if you do not have access to these articles please email us and we can send you a preprint version for free.

It has been a great pleasure to supervise some students who have helped with this research. Their names and projects are also linked below. Some projects have been about the efficacy of Maths Craft, but others have been mathematical projects inspired by craft. If you’re a student interested in a Maths Craft research project, please get in touch!

Please check back in the future for more research, and for more information on each project.

Forthcoming

Craft in mathematics as counter-conduct.
D. Pomeroy, J. Alderton, J.C. McLeod, and P.L. Wilson.
A short paper to be presented at the 15th International Congress on Mathematical Education, Sydney, 7-14 July 2024. To appear in published proceedings.

Enumeration of the polypolyhedra with Coxeter groups.
G. Henderson-Walshe, M. Langton, J.C. McLeod, and P.L. Wilson.
A pre-print is available, 2023. To appear in PUMP Journal of Undergraduate Research.

Published

Crafting connections in post-COVID classrooms: learning university mathematics through craft.
J.C. McLeod, P.L. Wilson, D. Pomeroy, and J. Alderton.
International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology 53, no. 3 (2022): 728-737.

Also available in:
Takeaways from Teaching through a Pandemic, 160-169. Routledge, 2023.

Maths Craft New Zealand: An Unexpected Journey.
J.C. McLeod and P.L. Wilson.
Bridges 2019 Conference Proceedings (2019): 223-230.

Maths Craft in Class.
J.C. McLeod, P.L. Wilson, D. Pomeroy, and E. Brogt.
Bridges 2019 Conference Proceedings (2019): 469-472.

Submitted

Using craft to teach university mathematics: gestures, objects, and concepts.
T. Grant, J.C. McLeod, D. Pomeroy, and P.L. Wilson.
2024.

Works in Progress

Engaging the public in mathematics through craft: counter-conduct in an elite discipline.
D. Pomeroy, J. Alderton, J.C. McLeod, and P.L. Wilson.
2024.

Computations with Wang Tiles.
S. Hogan, M. Langton, J.C. McLeod, and P.L. Wilson.
2024.

Future Work

Maths Craft in a Box.
D. Pomeroy, T. Grant, J.C. McLeod, and P.L. Wilson.

Invited Talks

We have given many talks on Maths Craft around Aotearoa New Zealand and overseas. The following is a list of talks we were invited to give at different events.

Maths Craft.
J.C. McLeod and P.L. Wilson.
New Zealand Mathematics & Statistics Postgraduate Conference 2024. Christchurch, New Zealand.

The Four Colour Theorem.
J.C. McLeod.
Oceania MathsJam Gathering 2022. Christchurch, New Zealand.

Maths Craft: bringing maths to the masses.
J.C McLeod.
NZMS Lecturer at the New Zealand Mathematical Society Colloquium 2019. Palmerston North, New Zealand.