Week 5's session, How to Make the Most of your Tutorials and Lectures, will look at how to prepare effectively, make lectures more productive, and understand what tutors expect from you during tutorials. You’ll leave with practical tips to help you study more confidently and make your learning time count.
This session is likely to be most relevant for first-year undergraduates, but all are welcome.
Graduate students support the running of the department in many ways: from presenting at Open Days and outreach events to running social events or seminars for Research Groups or for the wider department. We would like to recognise this contribution by making an award/a small number of awards annually.
You may be aware that best-selling science writer Simon Singh, author of books such as “Fermat’s Last Theorem”, visited the Mathematical Institute earlier this month with his colleague, Junaid Mubeen. As well as giving some insights into what constitutes good practice in writing, outreach and education, they gave a brief outline of their Parallel Programme. Parallel currently tutors 750 talented maths students every week from Year 7 through to Year 11.
This term, one of the third year Physics students is running a competitive, high-stakes treasure hunt as a fundraising event for the charity Christians Against Poverty. They would like to invite and encourage many of you to take part as you would be very well equipped to solve the puzzles involved. The essential details are as follows:
The start of a new term can often be an overwhelming time. There's lots of resources for you within your College or across the wider university. Here in the Maths Institute, we want to support you as best we can.
The Maths Institute has a student-specific email that can act as a first point of call. If you have a question or concern and you're not sure who to ask, email @email.
