Mathematics Support
Michael Grove1 & Tony Croft2
1Maths,
2 Maths,
Stats & OR Network, School of Mathematics, University of
Birmingham
Stats & OR Network, Mathematics Education Centre, & sigma
CETL, Loughborough University
Resources & Publications
• Facts, Formulae and
Information Leaflets:
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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
for 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
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Quarterly newsletter: MSOR Connections
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Distributed free of charge
All issues available online
(www.mathstore.ac.uk/newsletter)
– Recent articles:
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The strength of the community: how GeoGebra can inspire
technology integration in mathematics teaching
Developing graduate and employability skills within a
mathematical sciences programme
Student experiences of the transition to university
Using a problem-based approach to teach statistics to
postgraduate 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 graphics
http://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 Details
Michael Grove (M.J.Grove@bham.ac.uk)
Tony Croft (A.C.Croft@lboro.ac.uk)
Web Address
www.mathstore.ac.uk