basic maths support sessions dr marcus keogh-brown basic maths support coordinator
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Basic Maths Support SessionsDr Marcus Keogh-Brown
Basic Maths Support Coordinator
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Who should attend?• See online self-assessment via URL listed in welcome
packs:
• http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/edu/studyskills.html (under subheading ‘Maths and Numeracy Skills’)
• Do NOT need to be able to do all this for MSc courses
• If struggling with the questions and cannot understand the solutions then come to the Basic Maths Support Sessions
• No question is too basic, come and ask!
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http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/edu/studyskills.html
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http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/edu/studyskills.html
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http://studyskills.lshtm.ac.uk/BasicMaths/index.htm
Recommended calculator: Casio fx-85GT (or fx-85GT PLUS)
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Register Online
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When and where are the sessions?
• Lunchtime sessions at 12.30-2.00 pm on:– Session 1: Wednesday 7th October– Session 2: Friday 9th October– Session 3: Monday 12th October– Session 4: Wednesday 14th October– Session 5: Friday 16th October
• Practice between sessions is important and you can read the materials in advance too
• If you enrol you will be individually allocated to a teaching group• Email and notice board in Keppel St reception / outside Teaching
Support Office (TSO) for details of rooms• Download or print materials and bring to the sessions!• Welcome to eat in the sessions!
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How to access the course materials
• Either from– Self-assessment exercise:
http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/edu/studyskills.html (under the subheading ‘Maths and Numeracy Skills’).
or– Intranet U:\Download\Teach\Basic Maths
• Combined handout or individual Powerpoints and teaching materials with exercises and solutions
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How will the sessions help?• Not training in statistics,
epidemiology or economics
• Refresher sessions for revision of basic concepts in order to handle numeracy required for associated modules
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Summary1. Decide if the support sessions would help you using the
Self-assessment exercise: http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/edu/studyskills.html (under the subheading ‘Maths and Numeracy Skills’).
2. Please enrol by 12 Noon Friday 2nd October (also via the self-assessment exercise)
3. Download the materials and bring them to the session From the self-assessment From Intranet U:\Download\Teach\Basic Maths