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: *

Frank Kelly Francis Kelly (28 December 1938 – 28 February 2016) was an Irish actor, singer and writer, whose career covered television, radio, theatre, music, screenwriting and film. He is best remembered for playing Father Jack Hackett in the Channel 4 ...

(Chair) *

Martin Bridson Martin Robert Bridson (born 22 October 1964) is a Manx mathematician. He is Whitehead Professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of Oxford, and the president of the Clay Mathematics Institute. He was previously the head of Oxford's Mathe ...

* Paul Glaister *Paul Golby *Jeremy Hodgen *Mary McAlinden * Lynne McClure * Emma McCoy *

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 Ge ...

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 Professorship of the Public Understanding of Risk, Winton Professor of the Public Under ...

*Sally Bridgeland

References

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