The Undergraduate Mathematics Teaching Conferences (UMTC) began in 1975 under the title “University Mathematics Teaching Conferences”. They were intended to discuss the repercussions on University Mathematics courses of planned changes to the “A” level system and other developments in schools.
Delegates to UMTC are drawn widely from across the entire spectrum of mathematics teaching in Higher Education. They range from those lecturing Pure Mathematics in the “old” Universities to those like myself who mainly carry out service teaching in the “new” Universities and include academics involved in the training of mathematics teachers. What they all have in common is a commitment to the teaching of mathematics and a desire to improve the way in which they do it.
