Fundamentals of Algebra and Calculus

One of my main responsibilities over the past few years has been creating and running the Year 1 course, Fundamentals of Algebra and Calculus.

You can see a demonstration of the course here: https://stack-demo.maths.ed.ac.uk/demo/course/view.php?id=5 (registration required)

Course design and evaluation

This paper summarises both the educational ideas that went into the design of the course, and our evaluation of the impact on students:

  • Kinnear, G., Wood, A. K., Gratwick, R. (2021). Designing and evaluating an online course to support transition to university mathematicsInternational Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technologyhttps://doi.org/10.1080/0020739X.2021.1962554

This paper records some of the more detailed design choices, illustrated with examples of STACK questions from the course:

“Textbook in the quiz”

A idea of the design is to use a series of quizzes to deliver all of the course materials. I discuss this in the following talk and paper:

Blog posts

You can see blog posts related to the course here:

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/georgekinnear/category/teaching/fac/