Nicole Cozens

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What is Maths Like at a Lower-tariff University? By Peter Rowlett and Angharad Ugonna What happens in a maths degree? Will my A Level Maths students, especially those predicted B/C/D, be able to cope? These are questions we hear from A Level teachers, who sometimes recommend students who are interested in maths but predicted lower grades to avoid a maths degree out of a perception that it will be too hard for them. We find this quite frustrating. We have a regular flow of students who arrived with lower grades and thrived, achieving well and leaving into fulfilling graduate careers. The impulse to protect students from a course that is too difficult for their ability comes from a kind place, but is unnecessary, and maths is a degree subject that leads to a wide range of future careers, providing a lot more options than other, more specialist options. Our aim with this article is to provide a flavour of degree level maths through specific examples from our first-year curriculum. Maths at degree level isn't a big mystery or a different animal, but a continuation of what students have been prepared for in school.

A colleague and I have an article in the new Mathematics in School aiming to demystify maths degrees - the right course can be a great option for students with B/C grades!

#MathsToday #ALevelMaths #ITeachMaths

I am unreasonably proud of combining several obsessions in one animation. An impossible tribar (aka a Penrose Triangle) level 4 fractal (Sierpinski Triangle), in 3D GeoGebra, with dynamic lighting (using the dot product).

It’s #MathsWeekEngland !
To celebrate, I’m giving two free public lectures this week about the fascinating connections between mathematics and literature.

Warwick University tomorrow

warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/math...

Royal Holloway Thursday

www.royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and...

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We need to bring her to Bluesky

That looks amazing!!

You can expand it too - check out the nrich task nrich.maths.org/problems/meg...

#coremaths lovely!!

You need 3D Geogebra and 3D glasses ( the old skool cardboard ones are fine and super cheap )

The Big Earth Data Project - MEI The Big Earth Data Project A suite of hands-on activities to engage and inspire students to look at current environmental challenges faced..

The Big Earth Data Project has launched! I’ve loved working on this project with the amazing @tombutton.bsky.social . Maths curriculum based data science resources using satellite data to explore the ozone hole mei.org.uk/the-big-eart...

These are happening all over the country. Find your local one and get involved! #ALevelMaths

I always start off with explaining how the standard normal distribution is a graph and we can transform it so it has different mus and sigmas. I don’t explicitly teach standardizing until later ( don’t know if this meets with Rob and Susan’s approval 😅 )

As a teacher, one thing I miss about London is the free transport for school trips.

Travelling around London for enrichment was completely free but back up north we have to rely on coach and minibus companies which cost a small fortune.

Hopefully this is something we can change 👀

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Very excited to be launching a brand-new primary maths enrichment day, Inside Maths, at the Ri in London in Feb. Spread the word! insidemaths.co.uk

Exactly- and this is so evident from using the unit circle

HB @alexjw.bsky.social! Shall we celebrate at the SE ORG meeting later 😂

The best website.

Correlation

Thanks Graham! That’s really interesting. These comparisons always make me a bit nervous of people jumping to too many conclusions but it’s definitely good data xkcd.com/552/

I think nearly all multiplication methods can be taught procedurally with little understanding

Can you do two different things then - one is ensure that your curriculum covers good place value understanding, and the other is give students a tool that reduces the errors they make when carrying out longer calculations?

@sarahdenisonmei.bsky.social

That is lovely 😍

My husband would disagree with you to the other extreme. We have long chats about what constitutes blue and green

I don’t think I ever would have thought of that. Once I started on one path I just kept going!

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Yes please!

🎓 #UKEd #UKTeaching #EduSky

OK, I've started this - list of #UKMathsChat Teachers and Adjacents.

Please Repost to raise awareness.

Reply if you wish to be added.

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a picture of a door with the words nickaplease88 at the bottom Alt: A Traitors contestant entering the door to breakfast

This app at the moment feels like the start of breakfast time on the Traitors, with everyone excited to see who's going to arrive next 😅