Dr Rehan Shah, in collaboration with Dr Waleed Ali and Dr Samantha Hayward (University of Bath), and SEMS student Ilanthiraiyan Sivagnanamoorthy, hosted a UK-wide one-day in-person workshop at the University of Bath on Friday 5th June 2026, titled 'Teaching mathematics to large student cohorts across HE STEM disciplines' as part of an Interdisciplinary Collaboration grant funded by the London Mathematical Society (LMS) and funding provided through the recently formed 'Cauchy Club' community of practice for mathematics educators set up at Bath.

The workshop consisted of multiple sessions, involving a mix of theoretical discussions during the morning sessions on promoting interactivity through innovative pedagogical techniques used in teaching mathematics led by Dr Waleed Ali (University of Bath) and on leveraging routine homework for non-routine learning through scriptwriting dialogues about mathematical proof​ led by Prof Igor' Kontorovich (University of Hong Kong).

This was juxtaposed with an engaging, practical, interactive assessment design task during the afternoon session led by Dr Shah and his student Ilan, in which participants engaged in collaborative group work to design skills-oriented multiple-choice questions targeted to specific mathematical proficiencies across a diverse range of mathematics topics and concepts.

The workshop was an overwhelming success and received extremely positive feedback from all of its 250 academic and educator participants, both from within the University of Bath and externally from a diverse range of UK universities.

Feedback from the attendees included the following:

"I just wanted to thank you for organising this event! It was very insightful and informative."
"I can see myself thinking about these things in the future and even now while teaching my undergraduate class!"
"Thank you for giving me the chance to participate in this unique opportunity!"

The insights from the workshop will help inform Dr Shah's large ongoing project focusing on the development of a cross-national mathematical reasoning skills assessment inventory for applied mathematicians and engineers, in collaboration with Dr Alexandra Werth (Cornell University) and will also be disseminated to the wider community in its preparatory stages through internal and external channels.