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CETL-MSOR 2025: Lightning: Space Maths School Visits
As part of the STFC funded outreach project “2000+1: a space maths odyssey” the Middlesex Mathematics team have worked with students to deliver mathematics outreach activities for UK Key Stage 2 (11 to 14-year-old) pupils, to directly link topics in space exploration to the pupils’ most recent national curriculum topic. In this talk we share…
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CETL-MSOR 2025: Reflecting on two years of generative AI in assessment
In this talk we reflect on two years of incorporating generative AI tools, such as ChatGPT, into the assessment practices of second year undergraduate specialist mathematics modules. These include a problem solving and communication module, assessed through critiques and multimedia productions, and amathematical statistics module assessed through open-ended statistical analysis with explicit comparison to LLM…
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CETL-MSOR 2024: Making Mathematicians
One of the goals of an undergraduate degree in mathematics is to transform students’ perception of mathematics from calculations with the rote application of formula to the reflective, creative problem-solving that is highly valued in academia and other professions. This can be achieved by incorporating authentic mathematical activities (i.e. the kind of task a maths…
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CETL-MSOR 2023: Deconstructing Problem Solving
Are there good problems to teach? Our students come from diverse backgrounds and very rarely have ahistory of connection with the mathematical sciences through family orfriendship networks. In this respect, the issue of enculturation into theproductive professional disposition required of a mathematician is anadded aspect of their education that we build upon through a module…