5. Teaching and Learning

5.4. How to Get the Best Out of the Classes

The classes work most productively when students are actively involved. By handing in your work promptly, you can get feedback from the tutor, but can also show where there are topics or questions that you would like to focus on in class, which will help the tutor when they plan the class.

By actively participating in each class, you have a positive effect on others’ learning as well as your own. Please do join in with asking questions and discussing ideas — while of course recognising that others may have different priorities from you, so the discussion cannot always be tailored to your own agenda.

You will be allocated to classes for each course at the start of term. This should help you to connect with others who are studying the same course, with the aim that you can find peers to work with between classes.

You are actively encouraged to collaborate on grappling with the material and thinking about problems. In order to make sure that you learn as much as possible and do not inadvertently plagiarise, it is best to write up your solutions independently, though working together on questions can be a fruitful way of building mathematical understanding.