We hope that students will appreciate the beauty of mathematics and at the same time acquire the confidence to deploy their skills to meet the challenges of the modern world.
- Professor Martin Hyland
The innovative new website (undergroundmathematics.org) offers hundreds of free teaching resources to help make A-Level mathematics a richer, more coherent and more stimulating experience for students and teachers alike.
The resources combine problem solving, mathematical reasoning and fluency to stimulate curiosity, introduce students to new ideas, and encourage them to pose questions, reflect and collaborate.
The project’s central aim is to empower students to make connections between different areas of mathematics and thereby develop a deeper understanding.
To achieve this, the new website takes the form of an underground map and arranges its resources around a network of five thematic tube lines: ‘Number’, ‘Geometry’, ‘Algebra’, ‘Functions’, ‘Calculus’.
From here, users can disembark at 23 topic stations, many of which connect two or more thematic lines.
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Reproduced courtesy of the University of Cambridge
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