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.

Published

Crafting connections in post-COVID classrooms: learning university mathematics through craft.
J.C. McLeod, P.L. Wilson, D. Pomeroy, and J. Alderton.
In Takeaways from Teaching through a Pandemic, 160-169. Routledge, 2023.

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. 

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.

Algebraic Enumeration of Polypolyhedra.
G. Henderson-Walshe, M. Langton, J.C. McLeod, and P.L. Wilson.
A pre-print is available, 2023.

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.

Students (listed by completion year)

Mathematical mystery braids.
Sahasya Daniel Diamond (BA Hons, 2024).

Demystifying the mystery braid.
Sahasya Daniel Diamond (BA summer project, 2024).

Computations with Wang Tiles.
Stephanie Hogan (MMathSci, 2023).

Polypolyhedra.
George Henderson-Walshe (BSc summer project, 2023).

A numerical exploration of an overlooked class of discrete dynamical systems.
Abigail Edwards (BSc summer project, 2023).

Weaving Māori culture into natural fibre reinforced composites.
Caleb Philps (MProdDesign, 2022).

The role of crafting in the development of mathematical concepts.
Tessa Grant (BSc Hons, 2022).

Mathematical crochet and the Lorenz Manifold.
Breanna Camden (BSc summer project, 2022).

Wang Tiles.
Kieran Edwards (BSc summer project, 2022).

The mathematics of flat-foldable origami twist tessellations.
Sophia Witham (BSc summer project, 2022).

Knuts about knitting knots.
Elizabeth Chesney (BSc summer project, 2017).