This page gathers reports, media contributions and academic publications related to the Very Local Maths project. Click on the titles in bold to access to full publications.
Reports
Very Local Maths : A Festival Review
Media and Public engagement
Thompson, K., Black, L. (2025) in Interdisciplinary research – “absolute heaven”. Creative Manchester.
Papers and presentations
Mégrourèche, C. Black, L. O’Brien, K., Thompson, K. (2026). What does it mean to employ young people as co-researchers? Paper proposal submitted to the European Conference on Educational Research.
Mégrourèche, C. Black, L. O’Brien, K., Thompson, K. (2026). Community mathematics: reworking mathematical participation and inclusion beyond school. Paper proposal submitted to the European Conference on Educational Research.
Mégrourèche, C., Black, L., Herington, S., Vincente Colmenares, A., O’Brien, K., Thompson, K., Sant, E. (2025, June). Sketching community mathematics: A mapping of informal and situated practices, British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics Summer Day Conference, Glasgow.
Mégrourèche, C. (2025, May). Transforming mathematics through an ungrounded locality: Imagining mathematical “abclusion”, 21st Gender in Education Association Conference, Manchester.
O’Brien, K., Mégrourèche, C. Black, L., Sant, E. (2025, January). What can a community mathematician do? Preparing to create mathematics outside the certainty of the classroom. Presentation at the European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry 2025. Edinburgh.
A growing list of things we’re interested in…
- Coles, A. & Sinclair, N. (2022). I can’t do maths! Why children say it and how to make a difference. Bloomsbury.
- Gillen, J. (2019). The power in the room: Radical education through youth organizing and employment. Beacon Press.
- Moses, R. & Cobb, C. (2001). Radical equations: Civil rights from Mississippi to the Algebra Project. Beacon Press.
- Check out Chapter 1: Algebra and Civil Rights
