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Mathematics Support
Michael Grove1 & Tony Croft2
1Maths, Stats & OR Network, School of Mathematics, University of Birmingham
2 Maths, Stats & OR Network, Mathematics Education Centre, & sigma CETL, Loughborough University
Resources & Publications
• Facts, Formulae and Information Leaflets:– Pure Mathematics– ‘More’ Facts & Formulae– Mechanics– Probability & Statistics– Maths for Computer
Science
– (~21,000 distributed in 2007/2008)
Resources & Publications
• Refresher Guides– Algebra– Calculus– Numeracy
Resources & Publications
• Range of other publications:
Resources & Publications
• Publications & Guides– Ideas from Mathematics Education - An Introduction f
or Mathematicians
– Good Practice in the Provision of Mathematics Support Centres
– Supporting Good Practice in Assessment in Mathematics, Statistics and Operational Research
– Probability & Statistics in Microsoft Excel™
Resources & Publications
• Quarterly newsletter: MSOR Connections– Distributed free of charge– All issues available online
(www.mathstore.ac.uk/newsletter)
– Recent articles:• The strength of the community: how GeoGebra can inspire
technology integration in mathematics teaching• Developing graduate and employability skills within a math
ematical sciences programme• Student experiences of the transition to university• Using a problem-based approach to teach statistics to post
graduate science students: A case study
Mathematics Support
• mathcentre• mathtutor
Funding Opportunities
• Funding for mini-projects– Learning from Mistakes - An Analysis of
Misconceptions and Mal-rules at the University Transition – Dirk Hermans (Birmingham)
– Accessibility in MSOR: LaTeX and Braille – Peter Rowlett (Nottingham Trent)
– Learning Basic Statistics by Solving Problems – Jennifer Freeman (Sheffield)
– Study skills in the Mathematical Sciences – Martin Greenhow (Brunel)
Annual Conference
• Annual Conference (CETL-MSOR 2009): 7/8 September, Open University
• Refereed Proceedings
• www.mathstore.ac.uk/conference2009
Postgraduate Teaching Workshops
• One-day workshops - free of charge
• Offered nationally – range of dates
• www.mathstore.ac.uk/postgrads2009
‘I think every student who has to demonstrate should attend a workshop like this.’
Network Funded Resources
• E-learning Modules (Dave Woods – Southampton)
– Design of experiments
http://www.doe.soton.ac.uk/elearning
– Modern regression methods
http://chemtools.chem.soton.ac.uk/projects/stats
Network Funded Resources
• DragMath: A free ‘drag and drop’ equation editor
• STACK: Computer-assisted assessment in mathematics
• Mathletics: A suite of computer-assisted assessments
• Java Applets for Pure Mathematics
http://www.david-jordan.staff.shef.ac.uk/shop/
R and Rpanel
• The rpanel package provides a set of simple interactive controls for R functions which are particularly useful in creating dynamic graphicshttp://www.stats.gla.ac.uk/~adrian/rpanel/
• R-books: Interactive course-notes/text books which both animate key concepts and also provide learner feed-back.http://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/rbooks/
Model Choice
• Model Choice is a system that presents a graded series of scenarios to students, at a level appropriate to their current learning, and challenges them to choose from a list the probability distribution that should be used to model the outcome of the stochastic experiment being described.
• Testing Statistics
Contact us
Contact DetailsMichael Grove (M.J.Grove@bham.ac.uk)
Tony Croft (A.C.Croft@lboro.ac.uk)
Web Addresswww.mathstore.ac.uk
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