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Dr. Natthapoj Vincent Trakulphadetkrai (Associate Professor of Mathematics Education, University of Reading) was invited by Prof. Yarhands Dissou Arthur (Dean of the Faculty of Applied Sciences and Mathematics Education at Akenten Appiah-Menka University of Skills Training and Entrepreneurial Development [AAMUSTED], Ghana) to expand his Maths Through Stories research activity to Africa, starting with Ghana. This new research collaboration involved conducting a feasibility study to test out the implementation and evaluation process of a study that sets out to measure the effectiveness of an innovative low-cost mathematics teaching strategy whereby 1,800 primary and secondary school students in Ghana create short mathematical story picture books within their regular Maths lessons. This new study had received ethics approval from AAMUSTED’s ethics committee in January, and is now in the pilot stage where Dr. Trakulphadetkrai recently trained a small group of primary and secondary school teachers on how to implement this innovative mathematics pedagogical approach in their classrooms. 
This feasibility study is building on Dr. Trakulphadetkrai’s University of Reading Research Fellowship project (2019-2021) where he designed a similar project but with a focus on upper primary school children. This research collaboration will hopefully lead to an international research grant application collaboration in 2025. To learn more about Dr. Trakulphadetkrai’s research interests, visit his profile page here and his MathsThroughStories.org project’s website here. He tweets at @NatthapojVinceT and @MathsStories.
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