{"id":433,"date":"2013-05-13T13:51:53","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T13:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/secondaryeducationteachertrainingatshu\/?page_id=433"},"modified":"2017-08-21T11:31:35","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T10:31:35","slug":"maths-longer-routes-bscske","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/secondaryeducationteachertrainingatshu\/planning-and-regeneration\/maths-pgce\/maths-longer-routes-bscske\/","title":{"rendered":"Maths: BSc"},"content":{"rendered":"

BSc Mathematics with Education and QTS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Welcome to Sheffield Hallam University and to the three year BSc in Mathematics with Education and QTS. This page contains some suggestions about how you might prepare yourself for the course.<\/p>\n

First, some reassurance: Some students express the fear that mathematics at university will begin where \u2018A\u2019 level stops, and hence they expect that the work here will be significantly harder than the level at which they have been working. Our aim in the first year of the course is to re-visit, consolidate and begin to extend work with which you will already be familiar from your \u2018A\u2019 level or equivalent course. You may also wish to brush up your basic algebra, functions, trigonometry and calculus. You could borrow any \u2018A\u2019 level text from the library but we find that the MEI Structured Mathematics A level textbooks (third edition), published by Hodder and Stoughton, have a practical, easy to read style which make them suitable for recapping A level work. The core part of the MEI books come in 2 parts, one containing C1 and C2 (A\/S level) and one for the A2 modules, C3 and C4.<\/p>\n

During the course, you will be presented with a model of mathematics, and of teaching and learning, which may be very different from that which you have experienced during your \u2018A\u2019 level or other course. In the introductory sessions to each of your semester one modules, you will be given a reading list which will give you a flavour of the kind of mathematics, and mathematical approaches, which will be encountered in that module. The majority of these texts will be available for loan from the University\u2019s Learning Centres. Some of these titles may also be in your local library. The course aims to help you become aware of the multi-cultural roots of mathematics, and also to enable you to place your learning within a historical context.<\/p>\n

For those of you who are interested in doing some preparatory reading, I am listing below some titles which you might find interesting. You are not expected to purchase these books, but any local library will be able to order them for you to borrow, and you might choose to purchase one or two.<\/p>\n

Two books which raise some of the cultural issues in mathematics education are:<\/p>\n