Mathematics for Economics:

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• Mathematics for Economics
• enhancing Teaching and Learning

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• Rationale
• TL challenges
• Mixed intake of students on economics programmes
• Widening participation agenda
• Focus on interactive and inclusive learning

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Learning
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• Aim
• To maximise student attendance, engagement and
  participation in mathematics for economics
  through the provision of an accessible and fully
  interactive toolkit of varied and flexible
  resources

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• Project Objectives
• online question bank
• 50 video segments
• 10 teaching and learning guides
• Interactive website

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• Project Partners Expertise
• Consortium and Advisory Partners
• Project Director/Project Managers
• Authors (6) and Advisory Group (67)
• Subject Centre (Economics Network)

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• Online Question Bank
• 200 300 question styles, many millions of
  question realisations
• Diagnostic testing
• Seminars/Tutorials
• Problem Sheets
• Video Support
• Revision
• Assessment

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Question randomisation
NB
Random price
Random item
Currency (,,euro)
Reverse engineered for integer Q
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Part of the feedback
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Multi-choice (decontexturalised)
Random coeffs and degrees of polynomials
Distracters generated by mal-rules
Can be this
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T,F or U (a harder question!)
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• Video Segments
• 50 segments
• For each concept
• Real world examples illustrating principles of
  economics
• Formula/diagram/graph

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• TL Guides
• Present innovative and interactive approaches to
  teaching maths concepts
• Structure
• Presentation of concepts
• TL activities
• Incorporate video clips and question bank

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• Dissemination
• Workshops, conferences, seminars (82)
• One-to-one meetings (25)
• Regional workshops (16)
• Brochures, Posters
• Marketing literature
• Mailshots
• Articles, project summaries
• Feedback sessions (5)

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• FAME and SSSETL Projects
• Additional dissemination and embedding
• Extending the METAL project to statistics
• Including additional subject areas
• Capitalise on the expertise gained from the METAL
  project

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• Mathematics for Economics
• enhancing Teaching and Learning