Studying through the Further Maths Support Programme

Your studies will be managed through your tutor in conjunction with your local Further Mathematics Support Programme Area Coordinator.

How will your studies be managed?

Tutors allocated by your Area Coordinator will manage your studies. You may have more than one tutor, each supporting you with different parts of the course. See page 5 for details of how you and your tutors will work together. Tutors may be based in your own school or college, or in a different institution.

Why do you work in this way?

There are two reasons:

• The number of students wishing to study Further Mathematics from a single school or college may be small, so that classes would be too expensive for an individual school or college to run.
• Not all schools and colleges have teachers available to teach Further Mathematics.

What resources are available to support your studies?

Several different resources are integrated to support your studies effectively.

• Extensive on-line resources.
• Textbooks.  See Making the most of your textbook for how to make best use of textbooks.
• You will be encouraged to work with your fellow students.  As well as face-to-face meetings, you will be able to communicate by e-mail and via forums.
• You may take part in live on-line lessons with your own class, or with students from other schools or colleges
• You will attend a live on-line revision session for each module that you study. There may also be opportunities for study days and revision days where you can meet tutors and fellow students and attend some more traditional class teaching sessions
  

What skills will you develop in addition to learning Further Mathematics?

You will develop many very useful skills through this method of study and you will find them particularly helpful in your future studies and/or career.  These include:

• Self-motivation
• Independent learning
• Time management
• Working with others
• Using IT
  

We want to develop the Support Programme to make it as effective as possible, so please let us know what you think, either through your Support Programme tutors, or by sending an email to studentfeedback@furthermaths.org.uk