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Cambridge's finest recognised in 2022 New Year's Honours

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Among those awarded is Emeritus Professor James Diggle who receives the CBE for Services to Classical Scholarship. He was Professor of Greek and Latin from 1995 until he retired in 2011 and is a Fellow of the British Academy as well as Life Fellow at Queens' College.

Professor Diggle said: “My pleasure in receiving this honour will, I hope, be shared by Queens' College and the Faculty of Classics, both of which I have been closely associated with throughout the whole of my career, and also by Cambridge ̽��ֱ�� Press, which has just published the Greek Lexicon on which I worked as Editor for over 20 years.”

Lynne McClure, Director of Cambridge Mathematics, receives the OBE for Services to Education. Cambridge Mathematics is an enterprise committed to championing and securing a world class mathematics education for all students from 3 to 19 years old and is a collaboration of three ̽��ֱ�� partners – Cambridge Press and Assessment, and the Faculties of Mathematics and Education.

She said: “I am very pleased personally to be a recipient in the New Year’s Honours, but even more delighted that this award highlights the importance of mathematics education – for everyone. At Cambridge Mathematics we are privileged to benefit from collaboration with amazing practitioners, researchers and designers in the UK and internationally, working together to improve mathematics education, worldwide.”

Professor Pauline Rose, Professor of International Education and Director of Research for Equitable Access and Learning Centre in the Faculty of Education, receives the OBE for Services to International Girls’ Education: “I’m truly honoured and genuinely surprised to receive an OBE for services to international girls’ education. Thanks to all who’ve worked with me, supported and challenged me over the years. I look forward to continued collaboration on evidence to improve quality education for all.”

Professor Lorand Bartels, Professor of International Law in the Faculty of Law and a Fellow of Trinity Hall, receives an MBE for Services to UK Trade Policy. Professor Bartels, who is currently Chair of the UK’s Trade and Agriculture Commission, said: "It is a great honour for a trade lawyer to be recognised in this way. It has been a privilege to be able to work with the government over the last few years as it has developed its newly independent trade policies, and it has been immensely satisfying to be able to put my academic work into practice. I hope that this award inspires others to become involved in what is truly a fascinating and important area of international law."

Dr Robert Bud, Affiliated Scholar, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, receives an MBE for Services to the Science Museum and Northern Industrial Heritage. Robert Bud is Emeritus Keeper at the Science Museum, London, where he was a senior curator for 40 years: “I have benefited tremendously from association with the History and Philosophy of Science Department whose researchers have welcomed me, encouraged presentations, and collaborated on projects to great benefit of my work at the Science Museum.”

̽��ֱ�� ̽��ֱ��'s Vice-Chancellor, Professor Stephen J Toope, said: "It’s pleasing to see another group of people associated with Collegiate Cambridge receiving recognition in the New Year’s Honours list. Public service is what so many of us at this ̽��ֱ�� aspire to and it’s been noticeable in abundance over the last two years. I offer my congratulations to those who’ve been honoured in this way for their commitment and their achievements."

Academics and other staff associated with the ̽��ֱ�� of Cambridge feature in the 2022 New Year's Honours List.

Public service is what so many of us at this ̽��ֱ�� aspire to and it’s been noticeable in abundance over the last two years.

Professor Stephen Toope, Vice-Chancellor

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Faculty launches new teaching resources for sixth-form mathematics

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̽��ֱ��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.

̽��ֱ��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.

̽��ֱ��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. For instance, the ‘Quadratics’ station connects the number, geometry and algebra lines.

Each station on the tube map features an overarching question. At the ‘Thinking about Functions’ station teachers and students are asked the question: ‘What are key properties of functions?’ Additional key questions follow which students should be able to discuss by the time they leave the station, such as ‘What features of functions are visible on a graph?’ and ‘What do we mean by symmetry of a function?’

At each station, teachers will find a range of teaching resources, often with notes to support their use in the classroom. Within the resources, the website also provides additional insight into the problem, suggests alternative approaches and highlights links to other areas of mathematics.

When appropriate resources are selected, students should benefit from tasks that provide the opportunity for deeper understanding to develop. Teachers can also visit the ‘Pervasive Ideas’ wheel to access mathematical ideas which permeate topics throughout A level mathematics, such as transformations, symmetry and averages.

̽��ֱ��project’s Directors are Martin Hyland, Professor in Mathematical Logic in the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics; and Lynne McClure, Director of Cambridge Mathematics, a partnership between four ̽��ֱ�� departments (Cambridge ̽��ֱ�� Press, Cambridge Assessment, and the Faculties of Mathematics and Education).

Professor Hyland said:

“ ̽��ֱ��project aims to help teachers develop the mathematical understanding of all their students. Our resources present students with significant mathematics which enables them to experience the fundamental ideas which pervade the subject.

"Students get the opportunity to question and exchange ideas and become accustomed to tackling unfamiliar problems. We hope that they 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.”

Lynne McClure said:

“Underground Mathematics offers engaging and thought-provoking tasks which encourage students to communicate, reason and internalise mathematics for themselves. We firmly believe that this will equip students well for the wide range of careers which now also require these more sophisticated skills, as well as preparing them for public examinations.

"And the extensive feedback which we have received shows that both teachers and students really enjoy working in this way. This has always been at the heart of the project.”

Over the last four years, the Underground Mathematics team has worked closely with dozens of partner schools from across England to learn from teacher and student experiences of using the resources, to optimize the website and to discuss wider aspects of the project.

Hannah Page, Mathematics Teacher at Brighton, Hove & Sussex Sixth Form College, said:

“It was an honour to be invited to try out the resources as the website was being developed, and such fun too! ̽��ֱ��resources are rich, engaging and enjoyable for both the students and the teachers.

"We love the atmosphere they create in the classroom as students develop their problem solving skills and improve their ability to think, and work, collaboratively: skills which are invaluable for them to be honing as they prepare for further academic study and their future careers.

"We look forward to incorporating the resources more and more into the experience we provide our students with.”

Underground Mathematics is the culmination of a five-year project funded by the Government’s Department for Education and delivered by Cambridge’s Faculty of Mathematics.

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

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