Next week (3rd – 7th July) Dr Jenny Sharpe is organizing a work experience week for year 10 and year 12 students in mathematics. There are 18 in total (13 year 10 and 5 year 12). They will be supervised during the week by two undergraduate students on the Maths with Education program.
Their timetable for the week is:
Monday 3rd July
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9:30
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Arrive, Introductions, Health and Safety Briefing
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Jenny Sharp
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9:45 – 10:30
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Introductory Collaborative Group Activity and introducing tasks to be done throughout the week.
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Jenny Sharp
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12:30 – 13:30
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Lunch
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14:00 – 14:30
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Careers in Mathematics
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Matthew Craven
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16:00
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Finish
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Tuesday 4th July
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9:30
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arrive
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12:30 – 13:30
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Lunch
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16:00
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Finish
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Wednesday 5th July
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9:30
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Arrive, go to Babbage for FMSP conference
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All day
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FMSP Conference
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Margaret Harding
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16:00
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Finish
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Thursday 6th July
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9:30
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arrive
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10:00 – 11:00
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Codebreaking
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David McMullan
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12:00 – 12:30
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Statistics Research
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Julian Stander
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12:30 – 13:30
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Lunch
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14:00 – 15:00
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Symmetry in Geometry
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Daniel Robertz
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15:00 – 16:00
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History of Mathematics
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Phil Dyke
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16:00
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Finish
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Friday 7th July
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9:30
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arrive
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10:00
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Year 12 presentation to year 10 students
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12:30 – 13:30
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Lunch
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15:00 – 15:30
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Feedback and finish
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Jenny Sharp
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As well as presentations, the visiting students will work on:
Word Trail Puzzles: create some new word trail puzzles, other students to trial them and offer feedback.
· Campus Maths Trails: create math trails (Primary and Secondary) around the Campus. Other students to trial them and offer feedback.
· Feedback Analysis: analyse and prepare a report on the feedback data for the year 5, 7, 8 and 9 masterclasses.
· Maths Activities: Trial new Maths Activity Boxes, then prepare final resources
· Code Wheels: Make 150 code wheels
· Teaching Material: Find new questions for topics in MATH051 book. Wordy, application examples – with full solutions – could make podcast of solution?
Year 12:
· Presentation: Prepare and present an interactive session for the year 10 students “Why study A level Mathematics?”
· Teaching Material: Prepare (in Word) an outline of topics in MATH052 based on lecturer’s notes.