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Reflections on First Year Maths — Michael O'Neill

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Reflections on my experiences of doing a highly-theoretical maths course in the first year of my Chemistry degree

Reflections on First Year Maths I’ve been thinking about the Maths course in the Oxford Chemistry degree for about 15 years now, since I finished it in June 2008. There were important ways that it damaged my experience of learning Chemistry, and I wanted to use this blog as a reflection on my experiences. I understand that the course has changed since I did it, and that my own trajectory through my degree was not a universal experience. To be very clear about this upfront, I feel the quality of point-of-delivery teaching on this course was high. At the same time, I feel the curriculum was poor

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