The government investment in mathematics – Maths 2025

Mapped principles

The project is mapped to the following framework principles:

P3. Active student-centered learning

P4. Assessment and examination for learning

P9. A developing educational culture

P12. Broadened recruitment and participation

Definitions of the principles

Contact

Mats Boij professor

boij@kth.se , 087906648

Profile

This project is implemented at the School Engineering Sciences (SCI) within the Future Education programme (project no. 2524-SCI). 

Project context

The Swedish Council for Universities and Higher Education (UHR) is making an investment in the development of higher education pedagogical methods in engineering education. The measures are primarily intended to increase the quality of mathematics courses, and the instructions from UHR state that lessons learned from the development are to be disseminated to other higher education institutions. The programme management for Future Education has met the heads of SCI Mathematics and ITM Learning on several occasions during the autumn of 2024 to discuss possible activities and projects. After internal discussions at each department, a number of concrete proposals have been received for activities and projects that the programme management for Future Education and the heads of SCI Mathematics and ITM Learning have jointly agreed to implement in 2025.

Purpose (outcome)

The purpose of the project is the pedagogical development of mathematics courses in engineering and thereby to respond to the government's investment in mathematics in 2025.

Project results (output)

• Introductory conference with mathematics teachers (conducted in January 2025)
• Workshops in basic mathematics courses
• Pre-examination/diagnostic tests
• Mathematics emergency
• Preparatory courses for the MaPhy exam
• Closing conference.

Time plan

Start date: 2025-01-15
End date: 2025-12-30

Project documentation

If you have a KTH ID, you can read the latest project documents on OneDrive when logged in:

• Poster: The project’s first poster (in Swedish) will be available at the ”Storträffen” meetup on 2025-12-01
• Project initation document: Projektdirektiv_FrU25_2524-SCI_Mattesatsning_250929.pdf (Swedish)