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Post-16 Subcommittee

Aims
 		The Post-16 Subcommittee (Subcommittee 129) of Teaching Committee addresses issues in post-16 mathematics education and provides resources to enhance he provision of it.

The subcommittee was established on 29 September 2001; it replaced the A and AS Mathematics Subcommittee and the Maths in Further, Tertiary and Continuing Education Subcommittee. On 19 May 2007 the subcommittee absorbed the Teaching and Learning Undergraduate Mathematics Subcommittee.
 
Membership
Chair Peter Thomas Hills Road Sixth Form College, Cambridge
Secretary Clare Parsons Sir George Monoux College, London
Members Hilary Briggs Carnforth, Lancashire
  Brian Brooks Millfield School, Somerset
  Stephen Drape University of Oxford
  Rosemary Emanuel Camden, London
  Sandra Hoath The Manchester College, Manchester
  Mary Lewis Ravenshead,  Nottingham
  Steven Lomax Gloucestershire County Council
  Bernard Murphy MEI
  Alyssa Rowlandson Esher Sixth Form College, Surrey
  Chris Sangwin University of Birmingham
  Paula Webster Regent College, Leicester
  Graham Winter  Havant College, Hampshire
Annual Report

2001/2002
2002/2003
2003/2004
2004/2005

 
Resources

A level Posters (First Series) five posters on e, Kinematics, Logarithms, Populations and Samples and Skewness, published in 2003

A level Posters (Second Series) five posters on Continuous Data, Discrete Data, Radians, The Cosine Function and The Sine Function, published in 2006

Are you Sure – Learning About Proof a book of activities to assist in teaching proof, published in 1999

Mathematics – What use is it? a collection of materials illustrating how topics from GCE Mathematics are used in the wider world, published in

Mathematics Qualifications  information for careers advisors, published in 2006

Pig and Other Tales a book of readings and comprehension exercises in mathematics for sixth formers, published 1997

Problem Pages 14–19 a photocopiable book of thought-provoking mathematics problems, published in 2000

Read Any Good (Maths) Books Lately? a booklist of mathematical reading for sixth-formers, last updated April 2007

Revision Resources resources from the session on Advanced Revision at the 2006 MA Annual Conference

Sixth-Form Mathematics Today a short guide for lectures in higher education, published in 2004

 

The Changing Shape of the Curriculum a summary of national educational initiatives for secondary mathematics for England from 1999, last updated April 2008

 
Activities

Annual Conference The subcommittee organises a Post-16 Open Meeting at the MA Annual Conference for the discussion of issues relating to post-16 education.

Assessing Assessment The subcommittee invites comments on examinations designed for post-16 students. Please let the chair know of any concerns you have about this year's papers and how they are marked. Whilst the subcommittee wants to know about problems encountered, it would also be grateful to have drawn to its attention what are seen as examples of particularly good practice. The subcommittee also considers and comments on proposed changes in mathematics examinations.

 

Enrichment The subcommittee is working with the Millennium Mathematics Project to provide enrichment activities linked to topics in GCE Mathematics. It is also exploring the possibility of developing other problem-solving activities.

 

Government Initiatives The subcommittee continues to monitor government initiatives and help formulate the MA's responses.
 

Internet Resources The subcommittee is trying to create a directory of video resources on the Internet, in particular ones suitable for use as lesson starters. It is also exploring the possibility of producing guides to good free software available on the Internet.
 
Meetings
 		The subcommittee meets in London once a term. It will meet on Saturdays 20 September 2008, 17 January 2009 and 13 june 2009. .
 
Contact
 		For more information, please contact the chair of the subcommittee.

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