Newsletter 2003: Vol 3 MSOR Connections

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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

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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