Overview

"Maths Horizons: Exploring Your Path" is a special edition of our Which Career? panel event to coincide with Maths Week England.

It is being hosted and run exclusively by members of MEI's Young Persons' Consultative Panel (YPCP) who are aged between 16 and 26.

By hearing from young people currently at university or in employment, students will hear about what it is like to actually study maths beyond GCSE. They will discover how maths is important to many areas of future study and work as well as the many paths that studying it can lead to.

The event is being held out of school hours so that students (and parents if they would like to) can join directly from home. Teachers are also welcome to join too!

The event will last for approximately 45 minutes. There will be opportunities to ask questions during the session, using the Q&A function.

Please note: applications will initially only be accepted from teachers.  They will then receive a registration link which can be sent on to students.

Aims

• Discover what studying maths beyond GCSE level is like.
• Gain advice from those a few steps ahead in their maths education journey.
• Learn how the skills developed from studying mathematics are valued in the workplace, fulfilling Gatsby Benchmark 5.
• Find out more about Further and Higher Education, supporting Gatsby Benchmark 7.

Who will benefit from attending?

The event is aimed at any student who is interested in finding out more about what it is like to study mathematics beyond GCSE - both level 3 courses and at University.  Parents and teachers are also welcome to attend.

Panel Members

Host - Emma

International Business with French student

Particularly values mentoring and work experience.

Panellist - Anna

Maths and Computer Science Graduate -  Data Scientist

Always wanted to be a cryptographer.

Panellist - Anthony

Natural Sciences student

Interested in synthetic and system biology.

Panellist -Beth

First year Mathematics degree student

Took Maths, Further Maths and Drama A levels.

Content

In "Maths Horizons: Exploring Your Path", the host (Emma) and the three panellists (Beth, Anthony and Anna) will talk briefly about their journeys from GCSEs through to University and beyond.  The audience can then ask questions about maths, making post-16 and post-18 choices, university, future plans..... almost anything really!

Students will be able to ask questions of the guests through the Q&A function in the webinar. There will be further details within the joining instructions.

Other information

The event will be streamed live as a Zoom webinar.  This means that only the host and panellists will appear on screen. Audience members will be able to ask panellists questions through the Q&A function. Only the host, panellists and behind the scenes supporting staff will see the questions. Participants will not appear on screen and their names or personal details will not appear to other participants. We take safeguarding very seriously and our policy is viewable here. We will not tolerate inappropriate behaviour and will remove participants from the webinar if necessary. 

If you would like your students to have the opportunity to take part in the webinar please click on the 'Apply' button. Approximately one week before the event you will be sent a registration link; this can be shared with other teachers and students within your school.

Students should not apply directly for this event; applications will only be accepted from teachers and the registration link sent should be distributed by the teacher to students who would benefit from attending.

Key facts

• Reference:#12211
• Audience:Students
• Target year:Year 9, Year 10, Year 11
• Curriculum focus:11-16 Maths
• Event format:Online
• Duration:1 hour
• Region:National
• Fee:This event is free.