Basic Maths Support SessionsDr Marcus Keogh-Brown

Basic Maths Support Coordinator

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!

http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/edu/studyskills.html

http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/edu/studyskills.html

http://studyskills.lshtm.ac.uk/BasicMaths/index.htm

Recommended calculator: Casio fx-85GT (or fx-85GT PLUS)

Register Online

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!

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

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

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