Goldsmiths' Company Mathematics Course for Teachers

This course is sponsored by The Goldsmiths' Company as one of their Science for Society Courses. It is aimed at teachers of GCE Advanced-Level Mathematics, and other secondary school teachers who have studied mathematics to at least GCE advanced level. It ran for the first time in 2008. The course director is Dr Francis Wright and the course is taught by several Queen Mary academic staff, who will each focus on their own research and/or teaching interests.

This course is not directly about teaching, but is intended to inform and inspire teachers of advanced-level mathematics and science-related subjects. Sessions will range from expanding on GCE Further Mathematics topics to explaining current research at Queen Mary and the application and relevance of modern mathematics in today’s technology. The course will cover mathematical computing and cryptography, and include a visit to, for example, the National Codes Centre at Bletchley Park or the London Science Museum.

It is a 5-day residential course held on the Queen Mary Mile End campus, which begins on a Sunday evening in late July and ends after lunch on the following Friday. Accommodation is provided in the new Queen Mary student village. Participants only need to pay their travel costs to and from Queen Mary; all teaching, accommodation and subsistence costs during the course are paid by The Goldsmiths' Company.

Details of past courses are accessible via the links on the left. Future courses will be broadly similar to past courses.

To book a place on the course please visit the Goldsmiths' Company Science for Society Courses web site.

This course will not run in 2012 because of the Olympics but we hope to continue in 2013 in the last week of July.