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The Imitation Game Cryptography Competition

Encouraging girls to do maths

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Win one of two signed posters from the film (and many more great prizes)!

To celebrate the forthcoming film The Imitation Game, starring Manchester Alumnus Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing, the School of Mathematics will be running a one-off cryptography competition. The competition is open to all residents of the United Kingdom.
The competition is now open and closes at midday on the 28th November.

Competitors will be required to complete three cryptographic clues and discover the location of the Turing Treasure; winners will be drawn at random from all correct entries and prizes will be supplied by StudioCanal (including film posters, DVDs, soundtracks from the film and tickets to Bletchley Park).

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MEI has produced two new webpages to encourage more girls to take up A Level maths. www.furthermaths.org.uk/encouraging-girls-maths is a page for teachers and senior leaders, containing information about recent research findings, useful links, teacher resources and links to the recent performance tables which show participation rates in A level maths and sciences by school.

Quadratics

Think you know all about Quadratics? Our current feature for upper secondary students Digging Deeper into Quadratics showcases resources from the Cambridge Mathematics Education Project, who have been working closely with NRICH.

There's still time to submit your solutions to our Addicted to Addition problems for lower secondary students.

Free online support and feedback for year 12 students

The University of Cambridge's Faculty of Mathematics has just launched a new, pilot project, funded by the DfE. The aim of the pilot is to provide free online support and feedback for students now in Year 12 who may want to apply to universities requiring the STEP exam (or the Oxford MAT) in Year 13. It is intended for students who would not otherwise receive much help with STEP.

This pilot online project will provide a series of fortnightly assignments through which participants are expected to work, starting in the January of Year 12 (January 2015 for the first cohort of participants). Participants will receive individual feedback for the entire duration of the project.

Students currently in Y12 at state-maintained schools/colleges or academies in the UK are eligible to apply. Applicants must currently be taking, or be intending to take, Further Mathematics at A-level (or equivalent).

For more information, and to apply, please see: http://maths.cam.ac.uk/about/community/stepcorrespondence.html.

The deadline for applications is Monday 1st December.