Undergraduate mathematics curricula - A new approach
- Authors: Giri, Jason , Pierce, Robyn , Turville, Christopher
- Date: 2003
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: New Zealand Journal of Mathematics Vol. 32 , no. Supplementary Issue (2003), p. 155-162
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- Description: C1
- Description: 2003000363
Making statistics relevant for undergraduate nurses
- Authors: Martin, Peter , Pierce, Robyn , Giri, Jason
- Date: 2002
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at the Sixth International Conference on Teaching Statistics, Cape Town, South Africa 7th - 12th July, 2002
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- Description: In this paper we will explore the challenge of making statistics more meaningful to future nurses. In the fast moving undergraduate student world the expectations we place upon nursing students are considerable. Typically they experience high class-contact hours in addition to their clinical placements. Compounding the problem, undergraduate nursing students have diverse mathematical backgrounds and seldom perceive statistics as being relevant for them. Given these constraints we have adopted the relatively modest aim of producing informed and discriminating consumers of statistics and research, rather than skilled statistical practitioners or researchers. With a focus on computer output rather than by-hand calculations, we have made use of strategic examples, appropriate journal articles and an historical hypothetical. This approach has both relieved the anxiety and distraction associated with calculations and increased students’ engagement in the learning process.
- Description: E1
- Description: 2003000142