CHallenge and Support in Undergraduate Mathematics for Engineers in a GeoGebra Medium

This article focuses on a course in mathematics for first year undergraduate materials engineering students of which I have been a teacher now in two successive years. Students in the materials engineering programme have a wide range of mathematical qualifications and experience ranging from A* at A level achieved just prior to entering university to GCSE mathematics achieved several years earlier with no mathematical study since then. The cohort this year includes 72 students who are taught together over two semesters in two lectures and 1 tutorial per week over about 27 weeks. They are assessed through 8 computer-based tests (40%) and a final examination (60%). I was responsible for all the teaching in the first semester (15 weeks).