Service Teaching, a Drop-in Help Centre and Statistics CDC Steele University of Manchester

Service Teaching in Statistics by School of Mathematics

Service Teaching : Teaching by school of maths to students in other schools. –Teach methods that will help students with their other courses –Provide tools that will give general help to students in courses and in subsequent career –Provide discipline that will help generally in parent discipline –Provide enough theory that tools and methods can be adapted for unseen situations

Service Teaching in Statistics Service Teaching : Teaching by school of maths to students in other schools. –Teach students to carry out simple tests in analysis of data e.g. hypothesis tests. –Give students some appreciation of the power and place of the various tests –Give students an appreciation of which claims can be backed up with statistical ideas –Give underlying theory so that tests can be adapted

Service teaching in Statistics Course 0F2 to Foundation Year: MATHFS552 Probability / Statistics –Mainly probability but includes –Working with normal distribution –Mean and standard deviation

Service teaching in Statistics Course 1X1 to 1 st Year Computer Science: COMP10020 –Mainly probability

Service teaching in Statistics Course 2M1/2P1 to 2 nd Year Engineers: MATH29631/29651/29661 Probability / Statistics –Sample mean, standard deviation; –confidence interval; –hypothesis; –chi-squared goodness of fit test; –simple linear regression.

Service teaching in Statistics Course 2T1 to 2 nd Year Textiles students: MATH2953 Representation of data; frequency distributions and histograms. Basic statistical inference. Random Samples, sampling distributions. Sampling, properties of sample means, tendency to normal distribution. Use of statistical packages. Confidence Intervals. Hypothesis testing; null and alternative hypothesis, critical region. Significance level. Hypothesis tests; one and two-sample t-tests for means; paired t-test; F-test for two variances. Relationships between variables. Linear regression, prediction, confidence intervals. F-test for one- and two- way analysis of variance and experimental designs.

Service teaching in Statistics Scope for further course (possibly based on MATH29531) in general statistics for students throughout the university.

Service teaching in Statistics Challenges –A good engineer / scientist / medic / economist / other is not necessarily a good mathematician –Neither is necessarily a good statistician

Service teaching in Statistics Challenges –Sometimes, the necessity to lead students away from simply putting numbers into formulae and understanding / appreciating what is being taught.

Service teaching in Statistics Challenges –Finding data sufficiently simple as to be a good example of the tool/method but which is, nevertheless, real data.

Manchester Mathematics Resource Centre and Statistics

Manchester Mathematics Resource Centre Drop-in help-desk open 20 hours per week. Advisors are academic staff or postgraduate students Located in George Begg Building / C6 Open 20 hours per week during term time. e/resource-centre/

Statistics at the Resource Centre 3 dedicated sessions. –Tuesday Dr J Moriarty –Thursday 1-2. Dr P Foster –Friday 1-2. Mr H Chao (pg) Other advisors able to answer certain queries or refer callers to these sessions

Statistics at the Resource Centre Types of Enquiry –Course Related Example on tutorial sheet Question on past paper Query on notes

Statistics at the Resource Centre Types of Enquiry –Project Related Question about data-analysis, tests etc.