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ISSN 1473-4869 Volume 3, No 1-4

Vol 3 No 1
Feb 2003
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)
Vol 3 No 2
May 2003
Vol 3 No 3
Aug 2003
Vol 3 No 4
Nov 2003
Related Links:  Reviews | Mathematics Software Reviews | Maths, Stats & OR general info

List of Articles

Volume 3, Number 1: Feb 2003

Maths, Stats & OR Network: Introduction
Recent activities and future plans - Pam Bishop
Have you seen this? - Neville Davies / Ernst Wit
Day Break Programme - Vic Barnett | Teaching Ideas - Hugh Williams
Accounts of the new FDTL4 projects - Janice Gardner; David Green, Martin Harrison, Leslie Mustoe, Joe Ward; Colin James; Mike Tinker
Widening Participation case studies - Sue Dunn ; Keith Griffin
Matching first year curriculum to student profile - Bill Cox
Making Lectures Interactive - Ray d'Inverno
Industrially Based Group Projects - V Lowndes and S Berry
Key Skills in Pure Mathematics modules using ICT - Pamela Cowan
SERJ: Statistics Education Research Journal - Flavia Jolliffe
Teaching Statistics – What’s in it for You - Gerald Goodall
Monthly series on Computer-Aided Assessment in Maths - Nathan Scott ; Phillip Kent; Keven Judd, Grant Keady and Greg Gamble
OpenCourseWare – a Free Lunch from MIT? - Peter Edwards
TechWatch and DDA news
Comparative review of ActivStats, CyberStats and MM*Stat - Jurgen Symanzik and Natascha Vukasinovic
Review of Teach/Me - Data Analysis - Sandra Bonellie
Review of Maplets under Maple 8 - Greg Gamble and Grant Keady
Book reviews: Effective Learning and Teaching in Mathematics & its Application- David Griffel | Calculus 2ed- Choi-Hong Lai | Calculator Statistics and Calculator Calculus - Susan Jackman | Foundations of Statistical Analyses with SAS - John Norrie | Business Research Methods (7th ed) - Mik Wisniewski
Report: Swansea workshop on Maths support
Diary

Volume 3, Number 2: May 2003

Maths, Stats & OR Network: Introduction
New booklets from the MathsTEAM project - Christine Hirst
Recent activities and future plans - Pam Bishop et al
Have you seen this? Syndication of our resource links ... - Ewan Crawford
The Mathematics Education Centre at Loughborough University - Tony Croft and Carol Robinson
DDA: Maths support for an engineering student with dyslexia - Clare Trott
Who wants to be...? Use of Personal Response System in Stats Teaching - Ernst Wit
TechWatch Courseware News
Multiple Choice Questions in Statistics for Sport Science Students -- a student perspective - Anna Hart
Communicating Maths and Science - Chris Budd
Undergraduate Ambassadors Go Back to School - Ravi Kapur
Developing a learning resources CD-ROM for Statistics - Rachel Cunliffe
Interactive PDF documents - Robin Horan and Martin Lavelle
Comparing British/American HE: Two Personal Perspectives - Beth Chance and Mary Mortlock
JISC resource guide for Engineering, Maths and Computing - Sarah Kelly
A Personal Tribute to Cliff Beevers, OBE - Robert Harding
Computer-aided Assessment with eGrade - Chris Sangwin
Review of Mathematica 4.2 - Nigel Backhouse
Review of Business Statistics in Practice - Jeremy Garnett
Book Review: Doing Data Analysis with SPSS - Harper Gilmour
Report on SHERF meeting in Scotland - Joe Kyle
Meetings of the Advisory Committee on Maths Education (ACME) - Neville Davies and Joe Kyle
Feedback on readers' questionnaire
MSOR Announcements: VLE - Potential and Pitfalls; UMTC 2003
Diary

 

Volume 3, Number 3: Aug 2003

Maths, Stats & OR Network: Introduction
Recent activities and future plans
Professional Development in Mathematics - Joe Kyle and Bill Cox
Mathematicians as educational co-researchers - Elena Nardi
Have You Seen This… A Web Questionnaire Tool? - Ewan Crawford
Developing a Key Skills Module for Mathematics at Exeter - Elisabeth Dunne, Raymond Thompson and Ben Mestel
Enlisting your Careers Service to Support and Develop Employability - Clare Wright
Failing single honours mathematics students in one university - Sheila Macrae, Margaret Brrown, Hannah Bartholomew, Melissa Rodd
Mathematics: History and Culture - Peter Ashwin and Ben Mestel
A streamed system of Mathematics Courses - Colin Steele
MELEES - e-support or mayhem - Stephen Hibberd, Cliff Litton, Claire Chambers and Peter Rowlett
Maths-CAA update
In-Depth learning in mathematics courses - V Lowndes and S Berry
Undergraduate Ambassadors Scheme - Anne Skeldon and Chris Collins
SERJ - Statistics Education Research Journal Vol 2 No 1
Teaching Simulator for Industrial Statistics - Trevor Spedding
IMS Question and Test Interoperability - Dick Bacon
An Assessment of I-assess
Book Reviews: Success With Mathematics by Heather Cooke - reviewed by Martin Greenhow; Linear Algebra and its Applications (3rd ed) by David C. Lay - reviewed by Hugh Porteous; Computational Statistics Handbook with MATLAB by Wendy L. Martinez and Angel R. Martinez - reviewed by Byron J.T. Morgan
REMIT: Mathematics in the University Education of Engineers - Phillip Kent
Workshop reports
DDA update
TechWatch
Diary

Volume 3, Number 4: Nov 2003

Maths, Stats & OR Network:Introduction
Recent activities and future plans
A Data Interrogation Tool in Excel
Have you seen this...? Virtual Training Suite
The Calculess Engineer!
Teaching Subject Teaching in Higher Education: A Case for Statistics
The new AS and A Levels in Mathematics
Mathematics Support for Dyslexic Students
Do Maths Interactive Classrooms help Academics Engage Learners?
Pedagogic issues in setting online questions
Writing to Learn Mathematics
UAS and the course unit Communicating and Teaching Mathematics
OR Case Studies effectiveness in developing workplace skills
Teaching/learning of performance measurement in OR/MS degrees
Mathematical Application Project Server for Engineering Students
Drug Calculation and the Mathematics required for Nursing
Top maths graduates choose to Teach First
Review of Word2TeX and TeX2Word
Review of Fathom - Dynamic Statistics
So what's new in Mathematica 5.0?
Book review: 1089 and all that
Conference Reports: UMTC2003, UMTC2004, ICIAM 5 and PME 27
DDA update - Tactile Graphics for Blind Students
Diary

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