Kate O’Brien
Kate O'Brien
Kate works as Research Assistant on the Key Stage 3 RME trial. She is also currently engaged in her own doctoral research at MMU, which mingles the aesthetic practices of mathematicians with the mathematical practices of fibre artists.
Kate is trained as an artist and mathematician. Although she hails from the USA, the place where RME was first used in an English-language setting, she only learned about this approach to mathematics education through her work at Manchester Met. She is excited about what happens when mathematics curriculum is opened up to real world contexts and exploratory questions.