The Advisory Committee on Mathematics Education (ACME) is a British policy council for the

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based in

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. Founded in 2002 by the Royal Society and the

Joint Mathematical Council The Joint Mathematical Council (JMC) of the United Kingdom was formed in 1963 to 'provide co-ordination between the Constituent Societies and generally to promote the advancement of mathematics and the improvement of the teaching of mathematics'. ...

, ACME analyzes mathematics education practices and provides advice on education policy. ACME is funded by the

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(2002-2015) and the

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Members

The committee chair is appointed for a three-year term. As of 2018, the membership is composed of: *

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(Chair) *

Martin Bridson Martin Robert Bridson is a Manx mathematician. He is the Whitehead Professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of Oxford, and President of the Clay Mathematics Institute. He was previously Head of Oxford's Mathematical Institute. He is a F ...

Paul Glaister Paul Glaister is a British mathematician, the UK representative to the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction, and former Chair of the Joint Mathematical Council (JMC) of the United Kingdom, a body which set up the Advisory Committ ...

*Paul Golby *Jeremy Hodgen *Mary McAlinden *

Lynne McClure Catherine Lynne McClure (born 1952) is a British mathematics educator. In 2014 she was appointed as director of Cambridge Mathematics, a program at the University of Cambridge that spans the university's mathematics and education faculties, Cambr ...

Emma McCoy Emma Joan McCoy is the Vice President and Pro-Vice Chancellor for Education and a Professor of Statistics at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has acted as a mathematics subject expert for discussions on reform of the Na ...

Jil Matheson Dame Jilian Norma Matheson (born 27 March 1953) is the former National Statistician of the United Kingdom. Career Matheson joined the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys in 1975. She worked on the Expenditure and Food Survey and the Gener ...

David Spiegelhalter Sir David John Spiegelhalter (born 16 August 1953) is a British statistician and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. From 2007 to 2018 he was Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk in the Statistical Laboratory at the Un ...

*Sally Bridgeland

References

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