These are fully worked solutions to the 'Numerical Reasoning Practice Test 2'. The document has been designed to allow graduates to prepare for the Numerical Reasoning test they may have to take during the job application process. This resource has been contributed under a Creative Commons licence to the mathcentre Community Project by David Faulkner, University of Hertfordshire and reviewed by Dr Kinga Zaczek, Royal Holloway, University of London. It is one of a series of 17 resources produced by the sigma Network Employability Special Interest Group.

Formula sheet for nursing students including dosage, drop and infusion rates, unit conversion and BMI calculations contributed to the mathcentre Community Project by Shazia Ahmed, University of Glasgow. The leaflet is designed to be printed double-sided on A4 paper and folded into quarters lengthwise first.

The Open Learning Resource Centre (OLRC) at the School of Computing and Mathematics, University of Huddersfield provides a quiet environment with seated study places for up to sixty students. The Centre originally operated from 8.30am to 4.30pm every day but that has now been extended to cater for the needs of part-time students. Every day a tutor provides a surgery on a one-to-one basis to answer questions posed in mathematics, statistics or operational research (MSOR). It was also commended by the QAA Visiting Panel during a recent Teaching Quality Assessment.

Instead of a function y(x) being defined explicitly in terms of the independent variable x, it is sometimes useful to define both x and y in terms of a third variable, t say, known as a parameter. In this unit we explain how such functions can be differentiated using a process known as parametric differentiation. (Mathtutor Video Tutorial) This resource is released under a Creative Commons license Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivative Works and the copyright is held by Skillbank Solutions Ltd.

Four questions on partial differentiation. The first two involve finding the first and second partial derivative of a polynomial in x and y. The third involves finding a first partial derivative using the chain rule. The fourth involves finding a second partial derivative involving the product rule. DEWIS resources have been made available under a Creative Commons licence by Rhys Gwynllyw & Karen Henderson, University of the West of England, Bristol.

Four questions on partial fractions. All questions involve proper fractions and contain a mixture of denominator types: distinct linear factors, repeated linear factors, a quadratic factor. DEWIS resources have been made available under a Creative Commons licence by Rhys Gwynllyw & Karen Henderson, University of the West of England, Bristol.

The use of percentages is common in many aspects of commercial life. Interest rates, discounts, pay rises and so on, are all expressed using percentages. This leaflet revises the meaning of the term 'percentage', and shows how to calculate percentages, and how to convert expressions involving percentages into alternative forms.

In this unit we shall look at the meaning of percentages and carry out calculations involving percentages. We will also look at the use of the percentage button on calculators. (Mathtutor Video Tutorial) This resource is released under a Creative Commons license Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivative Works and the copyright is held by Skillbank Solutions Ltd.

This video segment introduces percentages. This resource is released under a Creative Commons license Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivative Works and the copyright is held by Skillbank Solutions Ltd.

Pettigrew, J., & Shearman, (2014) D. Piloting an online mathematics and statistics tutoring service. 30th ascilite Conference 2013 Proceedings, http://ascilite.org.au/conferences/sydney13/program/papers/Pettigrew.pdf. In early 2013 the Mathematics Education Support Hub at the University of Western Sydney launched a tutoring service to support students’ mathematical and statistical learning in an online environment. Until the end of its pilot implementation in mid 2013, the service operated at all times as a moderated question and answer forum located within the University’s Learning Management System (a version of Blackboard Learn known as vUWS). It also featured a ‘virtual classroom’, which allowed students to interact with mathematics and statistics support staff in a web conferencing space equipped with a wide range of digital communication tools. This paper refers to the service as it was offered in discussing a range of general issues and questions associated with its pilot implementation. Particular attention is given to the issues of pedagogy in a purely online teaching and learning context and communicating asynchronously and synchronously using mathematical language and notation.

A knowledge of powers, or indices as they are often called, is essential for an understanding of most algebraic processes. In this section you will learn about powers and rules for manipulating them through a number of worked examples. (Mathtutor Video Tutorial) The video is released under a Creative Commons license Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivative Works and the copyright is held by Skillbank Solutions Ltd.

A large print version of the Probability & Statistics, Facts Formulae and Information Leaflet. This zip file contains separate pdf files for each of the 11 sides of the leaflet reformated to A4 so that they are more accessible for students with visual impairments.

This is a high resolution electronic copy of the Probability % Statistics Facts, Formulae and Information Leaflet. It is designed to be printed on A3 as a double-sided folded leaflet. Print quality is printer dependant. An onscreen version is available in mathcentre.