Brilliant Peter - thank you
-- Celia
On 27/06/2014 09:49, "Sue Pope" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Sounds great :)
>-----Original Message-----
>From: "Rowlett, Peter" <[log in to unmask]>
>Sender: Mathematics Promoters list <[log in to unmask]>
>Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 08:44:47
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Mathematics Promoters list <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Taking Maths Further Podcast
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>Dear Maths-Prom,
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>Katie Steckles and I have been working under a commission from the FMSP
>on a podcast project. The aim is to encourage students uptake of Maths
>and Further Maths at A-Level. Each episode takes a mathematical topic,
>chews it over, talks to someone using that piece of maths in their work
>and gives a related puzzle.
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>The first episode of 'Taking Maths Further', officially released today at
>the MEI Conference, is about conditional probability and we talk to
>CSI/forensics lecturer Emma Rixon. Overall, there will be twenty
>episodes. Based on those we have recorded interviews for, future episodes
>will include a a variety of topics on and off the A-level syllabus and
>interviews with a neuroscientist, an archaeologist, a graphene biologist,
>a structural engineer, a mathematical modeller, a games developer, a
>radar engineer, a research mathematician, an astrophysicist and a CERN
>physicist.
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>Get episodes via iTunes or the FMSP website here:
>http://www.furthermaths.org.uk/podcasts
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>Katie wrote a blog post explaining what we are doing here:
>http://aperiodical.com/2014/06/taking-maths-further-podcast-launch/
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>Regards,
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>Peter.
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