Tag: Conference talk
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CETL-MSOR 2025: Pre-post data for outreach attitudes
Despite mathematics and science being among the most popular choices for study at A-Level in recent history, with maths, biology, chemistry and physics all featuring in the 10 most popular subjects at A-Level, according to latest HESA data only 225,355 students went on to study Biological, Physical, and Mathematical Sciences. This is less than half…
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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: Public Engagement for Student Empowerment
The ability to disseminate and communicate densely mathematical and technical material to a non-technical audience and coworkers is a key employability skill for mathematics graduates. While mathematics students are well regarded when it comes to working with highly technical material, they are perhaps less well known for their communication skills. As educators it is important…
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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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Greenwich 2024: Workshop on Assessment and Wellbeing
Authentic no-exam assessment for student wellbeing There is compelling evidence that high-stakes exams are detrimental to student wellbeing and further that these effects are not uniform across demographics. In this invited talk the Middlesex maths team shared their experiences of replacing all exams on specialist maths modules with authentic coursework assessments for a better and…
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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…
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CETL-MSOR 2023: Authenticity in Learning, Teaching and Assessment
Middlesex University has long been focused teaching our students thepractical skills they need for their careers. Taking this as our guidingprinciple while revalidating our undergraduate mathematics programmeswe decided to radically rethink how we approached assessment to build inmore continuous assessment that could be contextualised in an authenticway. To prepare students for their mathematical careers we…
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CETL-MSOR 2023: Cellular STEM
Maths on the Move As part of the Middlesex University strategy to utilize technology insupporting students, the mathematics team have seamlessly integrated itinto our specialist students’ learning experience. In this session, our teamwill demonstrate how communications technology has been employed tofoster collaboration, create a sense of belonging, and invigorate the BScMathematics/Mathematics with Data Science learning…
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CETL-MSOR 2023: No-Exam Mathematics
Automating coursework in Word, LaTeX and RMarkdown Mathematics students at Middlesex University are assessed primarilythrough coursework following a radical redesign of the programmes thatremoved all exams. From 2019 the Middlesex Mathematics team aimed togive students greater opportunity for assessment using authentic problems and real-life data of the kind they would encounter in their mathematical careers.…