In #MathsToday I'm getting ready for Oxford Online Maths Club tomorrow, where DPhil student Alice will introduce General Relativity to an audience of mostly #ALevelMaths students. You / your students could join in too; it's free (no sign-up!) with over 100 other episodes at www.maths.ox.ac.uk/r/club
Teachers with girls in Y13 or equiv. who love maths or CS or both: here's a free summer program where they can learn about applications of maths at Jane Street. The timeline is not great considering exams, but do pass it on if you know someone who might like this! www.janestreet.com/join-jane-st...
(Disclaimer: Jane Street sponsor the online maths club www.maths.ox.ac.uk/r/club that I host for Oxford Mathematics. That sponsorship does not require me to make posts like this!)
In #MathsToday Oxford Mathematics have opened school applications for the pilot of our new free GCSE Maths mentoring scheme aimed at getting pupils from grade 7 up to grade 8 or 9 (or equiv.), with Oxford students as mentors. Now we just need schools to sign up! www.maths.ox.ac.uk/outreach/oxf...
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I'm in the semiprime of my life!
(I've realised that my age is the middle of three consecutive semiprimes (each is the product of two primes). Fun fact; you never get four semiprimes in a row. Can you see why?)
Small admissions update for 2027 entry; the standard conditional A-level offer for joint-honours Maths & Computer Science at Oxford will now be A*A*A incl. A* in Maths and Further Maths (where available), the same as the other Mathematics courses at Oxford. www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/u...
Oxford is switching from MAT to TMUA for Maths, Computer Science, and joint honours, as part of a wider move to UAT-UK tests. See www.maths.ox.ac.uk/r/tmua for info and resources. As you can imagine, our website says MAT in lots of places, please bear with us as we change them all to TMUA! ^James
New academic year, new Step Support Programme website!
Over the summer we have updated our website, had a bit of a tidy up, and added some new content.
One of the new features is a "Check in test' for students who have completed the foundation modules complete with marksheme.
maths.org/step/
Yesterday I saw a question here about mixed partial derivatives and it got me thinking about how a surface might or might not have d^2 f / dx dy = 0 if we rotate it. Today I saw these two ruled surfaces at #TMiP25 made by Laura Bradby. No such thing as coincidence in maths!