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Expanding Universe

Expanding Universe

The Sun is just one of around two hundred billion stars orbiting around a super-massive black hole at the centre of our Milky Way galaxy. In turn, the Milky Way is just one of around two hundred billion galaxies in the Universe.

Shuttle launch

Escape velocities

Space is closer than you think.

Colour world map

A colourful problem

How many colours do you need to fill in a map? The answer is more complicated than you'd think...

Employee Search

Who employs mathematicians?

Maths graduates may not always be aware of the various employment opportunities available to them. This page offers a list of employer websites divided into several categories.

Partner websites

Partner websites

The Maths Careers website is working in collaboration with Future Morph and the Science & Maths campaign.

Engineering in action

Engineering in action

If you are thinking at all about a career in engineering, then the videos on this page are for you. Engineers from five diverse sectors talk about their careers, as well as giving real life examples of where they use A-level maths.

Ambassadors

Ambassadors

Check out the new Ambassadors Section - information and resources for any undergraduate or postgraduate mathematics students who are working with pupils in secondary schools.

Weighing the World

Weighing the world

Find out how the world was weighed, through mathematics, on a soggy mountain in Scotland.

Over the rainbow

Over the rainbow

A beautiful demonstration of geometry written across the sky in beams of light.

Roller Coaster

Twist and shout

Roller coasters engineers crunch the numbers to keep rides safe.

Featured career profile

Matt Henderson, Speech and language processing researcher

"If you do a maths degree, then there is a wide range of areas where people will welcome your skills."

Competitions!

Get into the Big Screen!

A video competition for undergraduates who work with secondary schools. A laptop plus 10 runner-up prizes to be won!

Featured pages

Teaching resources

This page aims to provide a range of resources to support teachers in the classroom as well as parents at home.

More Maths Grads

Maths comes alive with 'Maths in a Box'!

Maths in a Box is a vital resource for all maths teachers in secondary schools and FE colleges and also for university outreach departments. It shows that maths is used in a whole number of ways that school students may never have thought of. For example, it shows how quadratic equations and probability are linked to football and how logarithms are used in our analysis of earthquakes. And at the same time, it shows how maths can be fun, as students will be able to perform - and understand - the magic tricks for themselves.

More Maths Grads

More maths grads was a three-year project (2007 - 2010) funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England to develop, trial and evaluate means of increasing the number of students studying mathematics and encouraging participation from groups of learners who have not traditionally been well represented in higher education.