I’ve now been a maths teacher for over 20 years, and I’ve been a UKMT volunteer for even longer; indeed UKMT has been – and still is – quite a big part of my life. Even before UKMT as such existed, I participated in maths competitions as a school student by first entering one of […]
Tsolmon joined the Trust in October this year, as one of the most recent additions to our current group of 60 active volunteer Mentors. Below, we hear a little more about her and what impels her to support students in this way. Tsolmon, what motivated you to get involved with UKMT? After finishing my four-year […]
I’m Michael, and I’m excited to start the second year of my journey as a UKMT Enrichment Mentor. I retired from a 44-year career in the international oil and gas industry a year ago. During that time, I worked for British, Dutch, Austrian and South African companies and two small consultancies. My profession was Petroleum […]
Hello! My name is Adam McBride. For 40 years I was on the staff at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow and am now an Emeritus Professor there. For many years I have felt that school curricula do not stretch the ablest students. For almost 50 years, I have been involved in enrichment activities, such […]
I started volunteering with the UK Maths Trust in 2015. Another volunteer, Daniel Griller, encouraged me to get involved after a discussion about problem-solving, so my first involvement was submitting problems to the BMO committee. I submitted far too many too quickly and I think to slow me down, I was encouraged to attend a […]
Over the past few years I have been an Enrichment Coordinator within my school helping to run the UK Maths Challenges. This year I have also taken on a role as an Enrichment Mentor with the UK Maths Trust, guiding and supporting students through a set of monthly problems to enhance their mathematical capabilities. Growing […]
Hi! I’m Laura, a first year PhD student and UK Maths Trust volunteer. I started volunteering in my first year of university – I wanted to give back to the Maths Trust, because it did so much to help me. I was a junior student at a summer school in Oxford at the end of […]
In September this year, the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) Celebration Lecture took place in the remarkable surroundings of Central Hall Westminster. This celebratory gathering of students and their parents, and UK Maths Trust volunteers, was the perfect opportunity to present The UK Maths Trust’s “Outstanding Volunteer Contribution Award”. Peter Ransom MBE, the recipient of the […]
“I had just started my first teaching job in 2003 when I was asked to act as an in-school mentor for one of our Year 9 students, who had been invited to join the UKMT Mentoring Scheme. Having participated in maths competitions when I was in school in Serbia, I was more than happy to […]
“Back in 1992 I was due to take a group of 70 children on a Duke of Edinburgh’s Award trip, when Dr Tony Gardiner asked me if I would help marking the JMO paper I hadn’t met Tony before but had discussed with him how the children at my school had performed on JMO papers […]
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