Conference
The SMC conference is a major event in the school year, attracting many teachers with between 20 and 30 workshops on offer. It also serves as a social gathering at which teachers can meet and network with colleagues from other parts of the country.
2025 Conference
The SMC Stirling Maths conference is back at the University of Stirling on Saturday 17th May.
Ticket prices for 2025: £80 for a standard ticket; £20 for folk from Highland and the Scottish Islands; £10 for students. There are only 150 tickets on sale this year, so sign up quickly.
Information about the workshops on offer is here.
Buy tickets and sign up for workshops here.
There is a good range of sessions across ALL stages of mathematics education. Come and join the vibrant community of folk interested in numeracy and maths - you know you want to!
2024 Conference
We were delighted to welcome James Grime (jamesgrime.com) as the plenary speaker of this year's SMC conference, 
which was held at the University of Stirling on Saturday 18th May. James was an incredibly popular speaker this year, as evidenced by the number of people who queued at the end of his talk for photos and autographs!
One delegate, Andrew Norby, told us: “He is one of my mathematical heroes so getting to meet him was an honour (even though I did a poor job as his glamorous volunteer assistant for the Hamming Card trick, but he played it cool like the total pro that he is).”
2023 Conference
Almost 200 educators from the length of breadth of Scotland and Scottish Education (and, in some cases, much further afield) were present at the Scottish Mathematical Council conference at the University of Stirling on 20th May.
First order of business for the day was the announcement that Allan Duncan was the recipient of the 2023 SMC Achievement Award (see photo opposite of Allan Duncan (holding his award) and SMC Chair Alan Walker).
The keynote presentation was delivered by Ayliean MacDonald (see below). Ayliean is a former Scottish secondary mathematics teacher who has recently taken up a post as a Community Mathematician in Leeds. Her presentation, "How Maths Teachers Saved My Life", served as a thank you to all mathematics teachers, and a session full to the brim of ideas, activities, and deep personal reflection on the wonders (and pitfalls) of teaching mathematics.
The mathematics community offered 33 workshops in a jam-packed event, and it was excellent to see such a varied offering, fit for primary teachers, secondary teachers, ITE educators and university and college lecturers.
Thanks go to all our presenters, and to the many exhibitors who came to show off the current offerings in terms of technology, pedagogy, and textbooks available to educators today.
Achievement Award
The SMC Achievement Award is presented each year at the SMC Conference. Nominations are welcome at any time.
Nominees should have been involved in mathematics education in Scotland for a significant amount of time and have made a major contribution to the learning and teaching of the subject at primary, secondary or tertiary level either through working directly with pupils or students or by holding a position of influence within a school, college, university, institute of teacher education, local authority, Education Scotland or the Inspectorate.
