Mathematics and its Learning (Q46)

Discover how people learn mathematics and find creative ways to overcome their challenges. This unique degree combines in-depth mathematical study with insight into teaching and learning, making it ideal for teachers, tutors, teaching assistants, and home educators. You’ll strengthen your skills in mathematics and statistics, explore different approaches to learning, and broaden your perspective on what it means to understand the subject. Alongside academic knowledge, you’ll build practical insight that prepares you for mathematics teacher training or other education-related roles.

Key features of the course

• Accredited by the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA)

• Start at a point that suits your level of mathematical knowledge

• Understand how we learn mathematics and consider a range of teaching approaches

• Advance your mathematics knowledge, including some statistics

• Develop your educational skills alongside problem-solving and reflective skills

• Move to a different mathematics or statistics degree if your aspirations change, even after you’ve started

Course Modules

This maths degree has three stages, each comprising 120 credits.

Stage 1: You’ll choose one of two starts depending on your level of mathematical knowledge: the default start enables you to build up skills, knowledge and confidence at a slower pace, the intensive start allows you to build on your existing mathematics study. Read the Entry requirements to decide which start is right for you.

Stage 2: You’ll study one 60-credit pure mathematics module and choose one of two routes: mathematics or mathematics with statistics, building your own mathematical knowledge and skills before exploring how the subject is taught and learned in Stage 3.

Stage 3: You’ll study three 30-credit mathematics education modules, exploring how the subject is taught and learned, and choose one 30-credit module from the route you chose at Stage 2, further developing your own mathematical knowledge.

Professionally accredited courses provide industry-wide recognition of the quality of your qualification.

• Mathematics and its Applications, Institute of