Originally signing up to the home of the #hashtag for updates on gig listings, current affairs, and the odd painfully constructed pun, Twitter has become something much more useful for my teaching and all things mathematical.
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With more schools and colleges offering the qualification and more students signing up than ever before, Core Maths is back for another year. With more teachers delivering it for the first time also, there are more opportunities for professional development to help them do the best job they can.
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Nothing, they say, is certain except death and taxes, but the prospect of public exams for the first summer for a while is looking fairly likely, and Year 13 students are facing A level exams without the experience of GCSEs and AS exams behind them.
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Do you know that the AMSP has a wealth of options related to supporting students with transition to maths-related degrees at university? If you have one or more students who’ll need to take a university admissions test, then you’ve come to the right place!
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In October, we ran a short professional development course titled A-level Pure Mathematics: An Introduction for New Teachers.
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In the West Midlands, we’re served by several Maths Hubs. Coordinated by the NCETM, they work in partnership with local schools, colleges, universities, CPD providers, maths experts and employers to drive improvement in maths education.
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Tom Button has created a set of travel graphs in GeoGebra, which are free for teachers to explore.
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On 8 April at the University of Wolverhampton, we’re hosting a new professional development day focused on the overarching themes of the current AS/A level Mathematics and Further Mathematics specifications.
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As always, life at the University of Wolverhampton continues to be busy. Our enrichment events have included Celebrating Women in Maths, where over 100 students were informed of career opportunities in maths and some of the roles undertaken by women in industry.
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