Newsletter 2002: Vol  2 MSOR Connections

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Vol 2 No 1 Feb 2002	Contact R.L.Surowiec@bham.ac.uk if you want a quick link to any  article from here. Quick Links to: Inter-institutional collaboration on Easing the Transition to University (Feb 2001) A New Way to teach Statistics to Engineers (May 2001) Curriculum 2000  : full report on this briefing day (Aug 2001)
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Vol 2 No 3 Aug 2002
Vol 2 No 4 Nov 2002

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List of Articles

Volume 2, Number 1: Feb 2002 Maths, Stats & OR Network Recent activities and plans for the near future - Pam Bishop Something that worked for me/Have you seen this? - Ewan Crawford / John Biggins National Teaching Fellowships - Chris Budd / Michael McCabe A Thousand Projects - Helen MacGillivray Crisis in A Level mathematics - Leslie Mustoe Widening Participation in MSOR / Support for Personal Development Planning and Higher Level Key Skills development - Bill Cox & Penny Bidgood / John Gillespie Staff Development and T&L Resources Project / Struggling to find an identity in Operational Research - Helen MacGillivray / Andrew Tobias The LTSN MathsTEAM Project - Christine Hirst After the diagnostic test - what next? - Duncan Lawson Alice Interactive Mathematics - Neil Strickland Studyworks! 2002 for Mathematics/Introduction to Groups/Understanding Groups - Neil Challis Review of Mathtype v5 - Jeff Waldock Review of STATISTICA 6 - John Newell Book Review: Biostatistics with Minitab - Alastair C Wardlaw Workshop Report - Maths Support for non-specialist students / Diary - Pam Bishop XTRAonline article: Maths Toolkit - workshop report, Bristol 14 Nov 2001 - Mike Barry

Volume 2, Number 2: May 2002 Math, Stats & OR Network Recent activities and plans for the near future Staff development project update - Hugh Williams Have you seen this? - Neville Davies / Beth L Chance Something that worked for me - Eigenvectors via Excel - Michael Grant Identifying Good Practice in Teaching and Learning in MSOR - Penny Bidgood and Bill Cox Research in statistical education - planning of an international survey - Flavia Jolliffe Careers information on the Internet Mathematicians Need Careers - David Stirling InTeX - a problem-centred approach to learning integration techniques - Anthony Kay CUE Assessment System - Jane Paterson Mathematical Components of Engineering Expertise - Phillip Kent Maths for Engineers WebDisk - Jim Stevenson MathGate update - Greig Fratus; Mathematics Portal Project - Richard Young Review of Maplets - Grant Keady Review of Introduction to Groups - Jane Bennett-Rees Review of Visual Statistics - Helen MacGillivray Excel Interactive: Tutorials for Statistics - Neville Hunt Book review: Statistical Analysis of Extreme Values - David Walshaw Workshop Reports: CAA in Statistics - Athol Korabinski; Maths Support - Pam Bishop Courseware News, Diary XTRAonline resources: Eigenvectors via Excel: Worksheet (PDF | Word97) | Excel file - kindly provided by Michael Grant and featured in Something that worked for me....MSOR Connections May 2002

Volume 2, Number 3: Aug 2002 Math, Stats & OR Network Recent activities, plans for the future and funded projects / Have you seen this? Something that worked for me - C T J Dodson / Patricia Wackrill Setting the Scene: understanding student backgrounds - Dr K A Jane White Using Projects to enable Reflective Learning - V Lowndes and S Berry MathGate Report - Greig Fratus Mathematical and Statistical Support Service at South Bank University - Susan Starkings MathML - cleared for take off - Trevor Hawkes Using QM Perception v3 for testing mathematics - Daniel Nichols and Martin Greenhow Implementation of the Kid Krypto Concept - Alexandre V Borovik Engineering Teaching via MAPLE - Brian L Burrows Interactive Excel Investigations in Management Mathematics - Peter Butkovic Review of CalculationCenter 2 - Nigel Backhouse Leibniz: A word processor with mathematical intelligence? - Douglas Quinney Review of LiveMath 3.5 - Nigel Backhouse E-learning by Accident - Jim Stevenson Review of FELIPE version 3 - Rob Beale Book Reviews:   Handbook of Mathematical Discourse - Tony Gardiner / Multivariate Calculus 2nd ed - David Griffel / Advanced Engineering Maths - Dr D Hermans/ Elementary Linear Algebra - Grant Keady Workshop and Conference Reports: Assessment workshop - Pam Bishop / Maths support - Christine Hirst / ILTAC 2002 - Judy Ekins / 6th CAA Conference Statistics in Higher Education - Bill Foster / Flexible Learning in Statistics - Adrian Bowman Flexible Learning: Tutorial Tennis - Barbara R Smith Using distance learning technology for an MSc in Epidemiology - Steve Bond and Jane Bruce The Sheffield Statistics MSc goes DL - Clive Anderson, Caitlin Buck and Nick Fieller Distance Teaching of Statistics to Undergraduates at the OU - Jane Williams Java Applications for Teaching Statistics - Andrew Bertie Techwatch / Diary HE Policy Priority Area: Widening Participation - John Blake

Volume 2, Number 4: Nov 2002 Maths, Stats & OR Network Recent activities and future plans / Search for the best maths tutors on screen Something that worked for me - STEPS problems investigated - Ewan Crawford Have you seen this?...Overcoming the Barriers - Karen Ford and Peter Rainger Student Assessment in Maths, Stats and OR - Penny Bidgood and Bill Cox Teaching and learning across the A level - university transition - Hannah Lewis and Jane White Enabling Access to Further Mathematics - Charlie Stripp Welcome to MathBank - Keith Hirst Older and Mathwiser? - Neil Pitcher CAST of Thousands - Mark Brewer Scientific Workplace v4.0 - a mathematical tool reaches maturity - Michael McCabe Maple goes GUI with Maplets - a review of Maple 8 - Michael McCabe Review of MathAid Precalculus v15.33 - Jean Cook Book Reviews: Mathematics Teaching Practice - Bob Burn/ Mathematics: A Second Start - Duncan Lawson / Multimedia Tools for Communicating Mathematics (MTCM2000) - Douglas Quinney Updates - MathGate - Greig Fratus | CAA in Mathematics Short Course: Teaching Statistics in Finance - Dr Bruce Dunham Conference Reports and Invitations ICM Satellite Conference - Chris Sangwin/ Institute for Maths Pedagogy - Chris Sangwin / International Conference on Teaching of Maths - Joe Kyle/ UMTC - Dr Neil Gordon / Mathematica Symposium / Mathematical Education of Engineers Diary