Chess in Education Discussion Group
Wednesday, 26th February 2025
18:00 - 19:30 London Time
19:00 - 20:30 Central European Time
Registration closes 15 minutes before the start of the event.
Chess in Education
Join the Global Conversation!
Every last Wednesday of the month the ECU Education Commission holds a Discussion Group meeting for chess educators to share experiences and discuss their ideas and knowledge on various topics related to Chess in Education.
Discussion Group Meetings allow participants to learn from each other and gain new insights through different perspectives.
This month:
What is Recreational Mathematics and how does it relate to chess?
Read our latest blog on the Recreational Mathematics Colloquium 2025
Speaker:
Tiago Hirth (Portugal) – Researcher I CIUHCT, Ludus
Tiago Hirth, Ph.D, is a maths & science communicator, researcher and educator. His main interests are Recreational Mathematics, Magic and Games. He is a member of the Inter University Center for History of Science and Technology (CIUHCT) and works with Associação Ludus popularizing and promoting mathematics, among others through the Circo Matematico project, which he jointly funded a decade ago. He does various consultation works for school book publishers, recreational mathematics foundations, and science centers. He believes that play is serious and mathematics is the greatest game of them all.
Moderator:
Tatiana Flores (Germany)
Tatiana Flores is an international chess journalist and an enthusiastic chess player. She speaks several languages (German, Spanish, English, Catalan, French, Italian, and basic Japanese) and has a wide knowledge and understanding of global culture. This has enabled her to work for chess sites such as ChessBase, Chess.com, the German Scholastic Chess Association and many others on different topics, in different languages. In 2021 she became Women's World Chess Champion among the Disabled. She has conducted together with her colleague Laura Schalkhäuser an inclusivity project "Offenes Fenster" (The Open Window) since 2024. This project aims to foment the right of accessibility for chronically ill and disabled people in the chess world.
Tatiana is very interested in chess's social and educational potential and their benefits, thus, the ECU Education Commission is thrilled to invite her to moderate the monthly Chess in Education Discussion Group Meetings. You can find out more about Tatiana and her work on her official website: https://tatianaflores.de/en/home/
Register and join the Discussion Group Meeting to learn more!
Wednesday, 26th February 2025
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