Teaching
Undergraduate course, University of Manchester, Mathematics Department, 2024
This module teaches aerospace engineering students some key mathematical concepts: partial differentiation, line integrals, approximation techniques such as Newton-Raphson and the trapezium rule, ODEs and PDEs.
Undergraduate course, University of Manchester, Mathematics Department, 2024
Undergraduate course, University of Manchester, Mathematics Department, 2024
The GTA work in this module involves helping out groups of second year students with their independent research projects.
Undergraduate course, University of Manchester, Mathematics Department, 2023
For the first half of the semester, I helped out in problems sessions for third year mathematics students and second year mathematics and physics joint honour students. The class has 80 students. In the second half of the semester, I helped out in problems sessions for third year mathematics students in Complex analysis and Applications. This class has around 30 students.
Undergraduate course, University of Manchester, Mathematics Department, 2023
I lead tutorials for the first year Analysis module. This class had 24 students.
Some comments recieved in a survey about 1M1 teaching regarding me:
- "I like the maths tutorials, the GTA is really helpful with going over topics that we don’t understand."
- "Well explained. Tutorial very helpful."
- "The tutorials by Calum Hughes were extremely helpful in clearing any doubts regarding the contents of the lectures and the tutorials. "
Related activities- Creating Tikz Diagrams for MATH 34011 (Complex Analysis and Complex Analysis with applications). See them here
- Marking for MATH11412/11422 (Introduction to Ordinary Differential Equations/ Ordinary Differential Equations and Applications)
- Marking for MATH19861 (0N1 Mathematics for Foundation Year)
- Invigilating for MATH32012 (Commutative Algebra)
- Attended Teacher Training modules in the following:
- FSE GTA Learning Outcomes and Lesson Plans
- FSE GTA Teaching Skills
- FSE GTA Roles and Expectations
- Data Protection and Cyber Security (PGRs)
where FSE stands for Faculty of Science and Engineering, and GTA stands for Graduate Teaching Assistant.