Mathematics Support Michael Grove 1 & Tony Croft 2 1 Maths, Stats & OR Network, School of Mathematics, University of Birmingham 2 Maths, Stats & OR Network,

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 ([email protected])

Tony Croft ([email protected])

Web Addresswww.mathstore.ac.uk