Education Day 2023: Diversifying the Undergraduate Mathematics Curriculum

Location
De Morgan House (Hardy Room)
Start date
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Meeting Date
Speakers
Various speakers - see programme

 

The annual LMS Education Day is an opportunity for mathematics lecturers and colleagues across the higher education sector to meet and discuss aspects of education directly related to higher education.

The next Education Day will take place in-person at De Morgan House, 57-58 Russell Square, London WC1B 4HS, on Wednesday 24 May 2023. The title of the event is 'Diversifying the Undergraduate Mathematics Curriculum'.

Please note that this will be an in-person only event (not hybrid).

Click here to register to attend this free event.

Programme:

10:45 - 11:00

Registration

11:00 - 11:10:

Welcome and overview of the day (Kevin Houston, Chair of the LMS Education Committee)

11:10 - 11:30:

Subject Benchmark Statements updates (Duncan Lawson, Coventry University)

  Diversifying the Undergraduate Mathematics Curriculum
11:30 - 12:30

Richard Crossman and Emmanuel Ogundimu, Durham University
Presentation and small group discussions

12:30 - 13:00

June Barrow-Green and Brigitte Stenhouse, The Open University
Presentation (title: 'Contextualising the Curriculum through the History of Mathematics') and Q&A

13:00 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 14:30 Brief updates
 

TeMaC: Teaching Mathematics as a Career
Jane White, Bath University
Presentation

Levelling Up
Jennifer Gunn, LMS
Presentation 

Q&A 

14:30 - 15:00 Sharing practice
 

Students' obstacles to 'belonging' to the mathematics community
Noel-Ann Bradshaw and Tony Mann, University of Greenwich
Presentation and Q&A 

15:00 - 15:20 STACK automated assessment system for mathematics and STEM
 

Ben Davies, Southampton University
Presentation and Q&A

15:20 - 15:30

Closing remarks
Kevin Houston, Chair of the LMS Education Committee

15:30

Tea

 

Any queries should be sent to Cosette Crisan, LMS Education Committee: c.crisan@ucl.ac.uk, or to Katherine Wright, Secretary to the LMS Education Committee: education@lms.ac.uk