About NRICH: Meet the Team

Toni Beardon
Post 16 Teacher Associate
Toni was one of the founders and the first Director of the NRICH Project. She saw an online club as a means of extending opportunities for enrichment and extra-curricular mathematics to the widest possible group of young people when she set up NRICH in 1996 and piloted MOTIVATE in 1997. NRICH complements the activities of the Cambridge STIMULUS Project which she set up in 1987, and also of the Royal Institution Mathematics Masterclasses around the UK. Toni is now working to set up an outreach project in Africa modelled on the MMP. See http://aimssec.aims.ac.za. Toni has moved back and forth between school and university teaching over the last four decades. She has taught mathematics in several comprehensive schools. She set up a 2 year PGCE in the then Cambridge University Department of Education. Her research interests include peer education and the impact of communication technology on learning and teaching mathematics. For her work in mathematics education she was awarded the O.B.E. in 2003.