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Further info on the initiative including links to resources 

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The Society is delighted to be working with the Advanced Mathematics Support Programme (managed by MEI) on our Geography and Core Maths initiative.
View the briefing report for schools and HE LISTEN TO OUR PODCAST 'SYNERGIES BETWEEN CORE MATHS AND GEOGRAPHY: A DISCUSSION WITH MEI, A CONSULTANT AND THE SOCIETY'
The Advanced Mathematics Support Programme ( AMSP) is a government-funded initiative, managed by MEI, providing national support for teachers and students in all state-funded schools and colleges in England. It aims to increase participation in AS/A level Mathematics and Further Mathematics, and Core Maths, and to improve the teaching of these qualifications. Further information about the support and guidance offered by AMSP for other subjects is available here. The Core Maths Summer Festival 2021 programme is available to download here.

A Level geography provides an important opportunity for young people to develop their confidence and competence in using mathematical, quantitative and statistical techniques, as these skills are a requirement of geography specifications.

The initiative focuses on building support for the circa 80% of young geographers who currently do not study maths beyond the age of 16, and raising awareness of how Core Maths can support geography students during their A Levels and transition to undergraduate studies in geography. It will also provide CPD for geography teachers, online resources and other support.

Charlie Stripp, Chief Executive of MEI, said:

MEI is delighted to be working with the Society to inform teachers and stakeholders about Core Maths and promote its uptake. Core Maths focuses on the application of maths to situations that students are likely to come across in future life, work and study and will enable students to have greater confidence in working with the mathematical and statistical techniques they encounter in A Level geography and beyond.

Click here to read some thoughts on the value of mathematics for geographers in our 'Ideas from Teachers' section.

If your school would like to get involved please get in touch on education@rgs.org

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The Advanced Mathematics Support Programme (AMSP) is a government-funded initiative, managed by MEI, providing national support for teachers and students in all state-funded schools and colleges in England. It aims to increase participation in AS/A level Mathematics and Further Mathematics, and Core Maths, and to improve the teaching of these qualifications.

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Core Maths Winter Festival with Tim Harford (from R4 More or Less), Rob Eastaway and Angela Saini 

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Core Maths Winter Festival with Tim Harford (from R4 More or Less), Rob Eastaway and Angela Saini 

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January 2021

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8 week subject knowledge course covering correlation, regression, sampling and more

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8 week subject knowledge course covering correlation, regression, sampling and more

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Next courses begin in Jan 2021

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Videos and practice materials on a range of topics including hypothesis testing, normal distribution, spreadsheet skills and more!

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These On Demand Professional Development (ODPD) pods are designed to support teachers offering Core Maths or considering offering Core Maths, especially those who are using the Integral Core Maths platform and those teaching topics from Core Maths in other subject areas.

The course comprises a series of 'pods', designed to complement our Subject Knowledge Live (SKL) course Core Maths common topics. When complete, this will provide teachers with professional development covering all aspects of the existing Core Maths qualifications.

In each pod, teachers will experience a variety of content including:

short videos explaining the ideas behind the topic

practice materials

triggers for reflection and suggestions for further study.

Teachers will be encouraged to interact and collaborate with others studying the same material via the online forums. An expert tutor will be monitoring the forums and will respond to queries.

The course offers total flexibility regarding when teachers can access the materials, day or night, over a period of up to one year. Teachers will be able to track their progress within the course and to see when they have completed a section or the full pod.

The course offers total flexibility regarding when teachers can access the materials, day or night, over a period of up to one year. Teachers will be able to track their progress within the course and to see when they have completed a section, a pod or a full course.

What are the aims of this professional development?

To introduce teachers to a range of techniques which will enable them to work more confidently with students studying Core Maths or using elements of Core Maths in other subject areas.

To provide opportunities to reflect on subject content, resources and teaching ideas and to discuss these with other teachers via the course forums.

To provide support for teachers using the Core Maths platform with their students.

Content

Timings are approximate and suggest the required time for a topic to be counted on a certificate of participation. Further resources are linked from each section and so participants may, if they wish, spend more time than this in consolidating and reflecting on the content. You do not need to complete all sections to request a certificate.

What will I need?

You'll need an internet connection with capability to watch videos.

Queries?

If you have any queries about this event, please do not hesitate to contact:

What is On Demand professional development?

On Demand professional development offers total flexibility. Teachers can access the materials, day or night, over a period of up to one year.

It's also completely free of charge for eligible teachers.

If you're interested in a deeper view of what's involved in this unique form of professional development, you may enjoy this video:

Please note:

Due to the way the AMSP is funded, this On-Demand Professional Development is only available to teachers in state-funded schools and colleges in England.

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These On Demand Professional Development (ODPD) pods are designed to support teachers offering Core Maths or considering offering Core Maths, especially those who are using the Integral Core Maths platform and those teaching topics from Core Maths in other subject areas.

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Royal Geographical Society - Geography resources for teachers

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The Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) supports teaching in the classroom and field by providing award-winning geographical teaching and learning resources.

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Ideas and help videos

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Ideas for using the Large Data Sets to teach statistics in A level Mathematics

The Integral online resources contain lessons based on the Large Data Sets for the AQA, Edexcel, MEI and OCR specifications. The lessons include PowerPoint presentations, student worksheets, teacher notes and solutions.

Downloading the large data sets

Using Desmos for the large data sets

The Advanced Mathematics Support Programme (AMSP) has produced workbooks that show how to use Desmos to investigate the large data sets:

Help videos: using Excel and GeoGebra for statistics

These short videos demonstrate a range of useful techniques for using Excel and GeoGebra for statistics in GCSE and A level Mathematics, including the large data sets. Most of the videos are less than 5 minutes in length. The data sets used in the videos are not related to any exam specification; they have been chosen to illustrate the techniques.

Copying and filtering

These videos use the Car fuel and emissions data set.

Cleaning data, dealing with missing data

These videos use the World bank data set.

Working with charts

These videos use the data set OECD.stat (2017) Municipal waste, generation and treatment April 2017.

Scatter diagrams, trend lines and correlation

These videos use the Car fuel and emissions data set.

Drawing histograms and box plots

These videos use the Rain gauge data set (this data set is no longer available online).

Grouping data and working with grouped data

These videos use the Minimum wage data set.

Histograms from grouped data; cumulative frequency / percentage charts

These videos use the Japan census data set (this data set is no longer available online).

Random sampling

These videos use the Car fuel and emissions data set.

Probability calculations

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Working with the Large Data Sets in A level Mathematics

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The Integral online resources contain lessons based on the Large Data Sets for the AQA, Edexcel, MEI and OCR specifications. The lessons include PowerPoint presentations, student worksheets, teacher notes and solutions.