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Background information MSOR Connections is the quarterly newsletter of the Maths, Stats & OR Network. It is available internationally via the Network website and is distributed free of charge to those within UK Higher Education involved in the teaching, learning and assessment of Mathematics, Statistics and Operational Research. It is published in February, May, August and November of each year and aims to promote, encourage, enhance and disseminate research, good practice and innovation in all aspects of the student learning experience within Mathematics, Statistics and Operational Research wherever these may be taught in Higher Education.
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Volume 8 Number 1A discussion of different teaching approaches adopted during a mathematics tutorial / Vasos Pavlika
In this article, four different teaching approaches used during a mathematics tutorial of a first ye..A resource and activity centre for mathematics students beyond their transition to higher education / Tony Croft, Michael Grove and Daniela Bright
Mathematics support is a broad term now widely interpreted within higher education as embracing faci..Advert…Attend a Free Minitab Training Course for Academic Users / -
On 28 Feb 2008, Minitab is organising a free “Introduction to Minitab” course aimed at academic ..Appreciating and Encouraging Excellence in Mathematics Support through Collaborative Research / Peter Samuels
sigma is planning to carry out a collaborative educational research project in mathematics support l..Book Review: Intermediate Statistics for Dummies by Deborah Rumsey / Sidney Tyrrell
We are told that Intermediate Statistics “picks up where Statistics for Dummies leaves off, and ke..Current and ongoing activities / Michael Grove
A selection of current and ongoing activities of interest to the mathematics, statistics and operati..Diary / -
A selection of workshops, conferences and other events of interest to the mathematics, statistics an..Examples from an introductory course in developing probabilistic statistical thinking: Part 1 / Helen MacGillivray
The concepts, structures and thinking of probability and distributions underpin all statistics, but ..Have you seen this?... Teaching Statistics – web help from the USA / Warren Gilchrist
In the past, the UK developments in teaching statistics have been well ahead of the USA, (clearly an..Introduction and Contents / -
Introduction and contents of MSOR Connections Feb 2008, the newsletter of the Maths, Stats & OR Netw..MathML/XML series update…Some approaches to mathematical blogging / Peter James Rowlett
The blog created by this work is Accessing Mathematics, based on the experiences of Emma Rowlett as ..MSOR workshop adverts: Mathematicians and Educationalists: How can we collaborate?, 19 March 2008, University of Warwick.../…DDIG Event – Dyslexia and Engineering Climbing up the Slippery Slope / -
More details of two workshops of interest to the mathematics, statistics and operational research ac..Reflections upon the teaching of Mechanics to first year university students / David Leppinen
This note details the experience of teaching mechanics to first year mathematics students at the Uni..Supporting Students with Disabilities series… Accessibility in MSOR: one student’s personal experience / Emma Rowlett
This article is a first person account of my experiences of having sat in on the first five weeks of..The PiSA (Plagiarism in Statistics Assessment) project / Penelope Bidgood, Neville Hunt, Bradley Payne and Vanessa Simonite
Plagiarism, defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as “To take and use as one’s own the though..ViSA – Variety in Statistics Assessment / Penelope Bidgood, Neville Hunt and Flavia Jolliffe
We describe the launch of a new international project that is designed to collect examples of a wide..
