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is there any extra curricular activities that help with university admissions??? for other subjects helpful experience seems obvious, but for maths it seems abit non existant.
i have alot of spare time and need to do somthing with it, and if there is anything i will do to do with maths that could help i would like to do it.
thanks
i have alot of spare time and need to do somthing with it, and if there is anything i will do to do with maths that could help i would like to do it.
thanks
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#2
......maybe do some Maths? Read some books, look into some interesting topics, polish up on some competition mathematics...I really didn't mention much when it came to extra cirricular activities.
However, I recommend scrabble!
However, I recommend scrabble!
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#3
Contact local universities about Maths lectures for schools. I did these at Bristol. Do stuff like BMO papers and STEP papers. Maybe enter into STEP I at the end of year 12 (if you do maths A Level in a year).
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Look up the UKMT mentoring scheme, and get your teacher to enter you for it. You get a monthly sheet of questions and assigned a mentor (usually a cambridge undergrad ) to help when you get stuck. Ive been in it the last 2 years, but the first year I stopped doing them after the third one, and this year I only did one and a half
. Having said that they are very useful, two of the questions I got in my oxford interviews were very similar to ones I'd done on those sheets, and you learn nice techniques you dont get in A level, like the pidgeonhole principle (which was the basis of one of the questions I got at New college, and from speaking to other applicants a lot of peope struggled on that one).
. Having said that they are very useful, two of the questions I got in my oxford interviews were very similar to ones I'd done on those sheets, and you learn nice techniques you dont get in A level, like the pidgeonhole principle (which was the basis of one of the questions I got at New college, and from speaking to other applicants a lot of peope struggled on that one).
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Generally what universities like to see in maths students is that they've taken an interest in topics beyond the maths syllabus. In other subjects it's often easier to get involved in projects outside school, but since maths isn't a practical subject the best way to demonstrate your interest and ability is to research some more advanced topics and get into practice solving more difficult problems. It might sound a bit daunting at first, but if you use the right sources some of the complex topics can be more interesting than A level material without being inaccesible, and experience with tougher problems serves to both demonstrate an interest in maths, and help you if you need to tackle those kinds of problems in the future; in STEP papers, for example.
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In my Junior College, we have an annual Maths Week. I volunteered to organize for 2005. Also taking part in competitions/olympiads wouldn't hurt.
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(Original post by sarahjane48)
is there any extra curricular activities that help with university admissions??? for other subjects helpful experience seems obvious, but for maths it seems abit non existant.
i have alot of spare time and need to do somthing with it, and if there is anything i will do to do with maths that could help i would like to do it.
thanks
is there any extra curricular activities that help with university admissions??? for other subjects helpful experience seems obvious, but for maths it seems abit non existant.
i have alot of spare time and need to do somthing with it, and if there is anything i will do to do with maths that could help i would like to do it.
thanks
Reading Plus magazine http://plus.maths.org/
British Maths Olympiad
Senior Maths Challenge
British Maths Olympiad Student Mentoring Scheme
Doing AEA.
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(Original post by The D)
Sudoku
Reading Plus magazine http://plus.maths.org/
British Maths Olympiad
Senior Maths Challenge
British Maths Olympiad Student Mentoring Scheme
Doing AEA.
Sudoku
Reading Plus magazine http://plus.maths.org/
British Maths Olympiad
Senior Maths Challenge
British Maths Olympiad Student Mentoring Scheme
Doing AEA.
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(Original post by Knogle)
Sudoku? You can't be serious...
Sudoku? You can't be serious...
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#11
(Original post by The D)
It's good fun and that's a lot of maths behind it. Try making a Sudoku without using a computer program, you will see what I mean.
It's good fun and that's a lot of maths behind it. Try making a Sudoku without using a computer program, you will see what I mean.
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#12
(Original post by Knogle)
Well the game involves a bit of logic, but not maths? Yes maths does involve logic but not the Sudoku kind of logic. Get my drift?
Well the game involves a bit of logic, but not maths? Yes maths does involve logic but not the Sudoku kind of logic. Get my drift?
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#14
(Original post by chewwy)
prove unproved mathematical theorems. **** like that.
prove unproved mathematical theorems. **** like that.
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#15
(Original post by alexeynechaev)
The D loves Sudoku
The D loves Sudoku
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#16
(Original post by The D)
eg. Riemann Hypothesis lol
eg. Riemann Hypothesis lol
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#17
(Original post by Knogle)
Well the game involves a bit of logic, but not maths? Yes maths does involve logic but not the Sudoku kind of logic. Get my drift?
Well the game involves a bit of logic, but not maths? Yes maths does involve logic but not the Sudoku kind of logic. Get my drift?
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#18
Sudoku doesn't really help you much. Sudoku is about working out a couple of good algorithms and then applying them again and again to solve the problem. Not a great deal of abstract thought is required. Sodoku's numbers change, it's method of solution is always the same.
My dad is a professor of fluid mechanics and he's crap at Sudoku. I was crap at it till I put in practice then it's just robotic.
Better off grabbing a textbook and working through the exercises in it.
My dad is a professor of fluid mechanics and he's crap at Sudoku. I was crap at it till I put in practice then it's just robotic.
Better off grabbing a textbook and working through the exercises in it.
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#19
(Original post by harr)
Don't worry, I have discovered a marvelous proof to this hypothesis, that this post is too small to contain.
Don't worry, I have discovered a marvelous proof to this hypothesis, that this post is too small to contain.
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#20
(Original post by The D)
Brilliant...Fermat wrote something similar a few hundred years ago.....
Brilliant...Fermat wrote something similar a few hundred years ago.....
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