Maths Café: Pop in and Solve Your Maths Problems at Brunel University
We created a drop-in centre for 2 weeks, providing maths support just before the exam period, primarily for non-A level students.
Located in a central movement area, a café style was adopted (with red gingham table cloths, free drinks + snacks) to target high pedestrian traffic.
Students came from 4 main programmes (Economics; Foundations of Engineering; Foundations of IT and Financial Computing).
Of these, 81% required help with mathematical methods rather than statistics; 62% of students needed help with Calculus!
This was a pilot for a more integrated approach to remedial support in 2009 and subsequent years.
Result: 352 students accessed one-to-one support over a 2 week period.
Read the Maths Café evaluation report.
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