Collaborating with Mathematics Tutors to explore Undergraduate Teaching

This paper reports on a research project into the teaching of mathematics at university level at the University of Oxford. It focuses particularly on user engagement related to the project. These users include specific tutors in the mathematics subfaculty, the subfaculty as a whole, and the wider mathematical and mathematics education community at and beyond Oxford. Introduction and Background The Undergraduate Mathematics Teaching Project (UMTP) involved a one-year study of mathematics teaching in first-year undergraduate tutorials1. The research involved observations of tutorials and interviews with tutors over one University term, and a qualitative analysis of the resulting data. Three university researchers2 and six tutors (research mathematicians) wer