TEXTS
- Text 1:Types of numbers/Working with numbers /Unit 1 (from Academic English for Mathematics) ‘Real Numbers’
- Text 2: Unit 2: ‘Algebraic Expressions, Equations and Functions’
- Text 3: Does Infinity exist?
- Text 4: Properties of a circle/Unit 10: ‘ The Geometry of a Circle’
- Text 5: The origin of mathematical Proofs
- Text 6: Unit 5:’Introduction to Probability’
LANGUAGE
- Summarizing & Paraphrasing strategies
- English Tenses
- Argumentative language (writing a commentary)
- Comparative language
- Note taking systems
- Descriptive Language (Describing objects, etc.)
- Reporting on graphs & charts
- Features of Academic Language (Formality, Complexity, Hedging, Accuracy, Explicitness, Objectivity, Precision)
- Sentence Structure & Style (Identifying Independent and Dependent Clauses/Eliminating Wordiness/Avoiding Run-ons, Comma Splices, and Fused Sentences & Punctuation patterns)
- Types of sentences
- Emphatic Structures
The Instructor
Maria Koutraki
English for Maths 