Choose Maths collaboration with MEC

Choose Maths Our academic collaboration with Murray Edwards College, Cambridge

We are proud to present our collaboration with Murray Edwards College, Cambridge.

Working with an institution that shares our mission to empower young women through education, we hope to inspire more students to consider A-Level maths and go on to study maths-related degrees in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) at university.

Pioneers and changemakers Amongst the GDST’s 100,000 strong alumnae are women leading globally in professions where maths has enabled them to become pioneers and changemakers. If you follow in their footsteps in choosing maths, you will be opening doors to enriching degree courses and contributing to greater representation of women in maths-related careers.

Working with Murray Edwards, we’ve learned that creativity and collaboration are at the heart of STEM degrees, and that if you are passionate about bringing about change in our world, maths is key.

Studying maths at a GDST sixth form and the benefits of our collaboration Maths is the most popular A-Level subject for GDST students, with 37% choosing it for sixth form.

Our collaboration with Murray Edwards brings greater understanding of the requirements for a maths and maths-related degree.

Our annual programme Choose Maths webinar – open to all students Year 11 Ahead of confirming your A-Level choices, join a session with academics and students from Murray Edwards College on: • •

How maths develops beyond GCSE The importance of further maths A-Level for undergraduate degrees in maths and STEM at Cambridge Year 12 As you contemplate your options for continuing your education after school, find out: • •

Year 12 further mathematicians’ immersion day at Murray Edwards College Students experience academic and pastoral life during this taster day at Murray Edwards College, diving into the world of a maths undergraduate, meeting college tutors, current students and recent alumnae.

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Work on maths challenges and have taster sessions of academic teaching at the University of Cambridge Tour the college, its facilities and accommodation, and enjoy the largest collection of art by women artists in Europe Sample a college lunch Engage in a University of Cambridge lecture

The range of STEM degrees that Cambridge offers What degrees in STEM subjects entail

“There are a range of contemporary issues that maths helps solve, from

developments to alleviate world hunger, the challenges of the climate crisis, data security or the fairness of algorithms and the use of AI…” Professor Holly Krieger of University of Cambridge

“Maths can help shape what we want the world to be.”

Dr Yara Kyrychenko, Junior Research Fellow, University of Cambridge

“I learnt a lot about maths at Cambridge and I especially liked when they showed the types of problems the students would be working on.”

“I really enjoyed the new fact we learnt about square numbers and how they are

the sum of the n-1 odd numbers before them.”

GDST students

About Murray Edwards College Murray Edwards College was founded (as the third women’s college at the time) as New Hall College in 1954 by Rosemary Murray, with the aim of attracting female students with ‘creative and original minds’.

It is an institution for outstanding women from all backgrounds, committed to improving the representation of women in STEM subjects, and particularly maths, at the University of Cambridge.

Notable STEM alumnae include Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Professor Hiranya Peiris, Professor Katherine Blundell, Dr Mrinalini Dey and Professor Helen Rees.

Alumnae from other fields include Nicola Walker, Mishal Husain, Sue Perkins, Maggie O’Farrell, Helen Macdonald and Claudia Winkleman.