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MERG members include experienced academics, early career researchers, teaching associates, and graduate students, as well as practitioners and other professionals who work at the forefront of curriculum design, assessment, and teacher professional development, all with a shared commitment to understanding, theorising, and improving the mathematical education of all students.

MERG aims to create a vibrant academic environment where cutting edge mathematics education research is conceived, developed, debated, and presented. MERG members work on a wide range of topics within the field of mathematics education with particular attention to instructional issues concerning important but hard-to-teach and hard-to-learn mathematical activities such as proving and problem solving, the professional learning of teachers of mathematics so as to enable them to enact high-quality mathematics instruction, issues of equity and social justice in mathematics education, and the implications of all of the above for curriculum design, assessment, and policy formation.

MERG aims also to create synergies between mathematics education research and development work conducted in various University departments, including the Faculties of Education, Mathematics, and Computer Science, as well as Cambridge Assessment and Cambridge University Press. Some MERG members are currently involved in major cross-departmental projects related to mathematics education such as Cambridge Mathematics and NRICH.