Mathematics

For students who are going on to study either Mathematics or a Mathematics-related subject at university, they will rapidly discover there are a huge wealth of different types of Mathematics that are not contained within the A Level courses. During these final weeks of the year, we will be encouraging the students to develop their own ideas and interests in the subject. This may be through identifying suitable MOOCs, researching and presenting different ideas to the other students, and inspiring them to work on some of the more recreational areas of Mathematics. We will also be encouraging the students develop more of an ability to solve problems in different contexts, and how they should go about approaching problems that they do not know how to approach!

Lesson Outline: The course will be primarily dictated by the specific interests of the students involved. Each week’s session will be dedicated to providing the assistance that the students need to push themselves further as they develop into mathematicians.

Project Outcome: Towards the end of the four weeks, the students will deliver short presentations to each other on the work that they have been doing, as they would be expected to do within the university tutorial setting.

Mathematics or Further Mathematics Completion: For students who have not completed their A Level courses and wish to do so, lessons will be given on the remaining topics. This will be very useful to anyone going on to study any of the mathematical or scientific subjects.