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Mathematics
Department
College
of Science Discipline Sub-Committee in Mathematics
Meeting 2008-01
1pm- 2pm Thursday 27 March 2008
Room MORAN1012
Agenda
1. Welcome/Apologies
Please
note that all with an interest in teaching and learning in the area of
mathematics are welcome.
2. Minutes of Meeting
Notes
of previous meeting
3. Matters arising
4. Honours
Our recommendation to 4th
year honours students is now:
It is recommended that
students intending to continue onto Honours in Mathematics should
complete at least 24 units of C
level Mathematics courses at honours pathway level, including MATH3116
and MATH3104
(unless MATH2320
and MATH2322
have already been taken).
5. Master of
Mathematical Sciences
New Graduate Coursework Convenor, John Urbas
Proposal: To include the following courses into "Group 2"
advanced courses in
the rules for the degree
(http://studyat.anu.edu.au/programs/7607XMMASC;study_options.html)
MATH6107 Modern Analysis (Analysis 2),
MATH6106 Abstract Algebra (Galois Theory)
MATH6108 Functional Analysis (Analysis 3)
MATH6113 Complex Analysis
These courses have other 6100 level courses as prerequisites, and so
should be counted as advanced courses for the program.
6. Marketing
Adam Rennie to provide some feedback on a
recent marketing meeting. Ideas to increase the retension of students
in maths.
8. Dropin Centre
The drop in centre is running 8 hours per
week. Rishni Ratnam is the coordinator for the drop in centre and we
are using a range of students from PhD -Honours - 3rd Year to staff the
centre.
9. Maths Day
Maths
Day will be held on Friday 30th May. A number of people have
volunteered to help with the production of various
problems. We will
decide on how to distribut the work at the meeting.
The poster
needs to be finalised and sent off by the 4th April. The other problem
sets need to be finalised by the end of April to give us enough time to
proof read and print the questions.
Here are some links showing some past questions.
2007 Poster
2007 Group Questions
2007 Swiss
2007 Cross (we
already have one for 2008)
2004 Relay
(the 2007 relay was too hard, and we don't have the 2005, 2006
questions. Consecutive questions (1 and 2, 3 and 4 etc.) should be
simiilar).
10. Review of
First Year Teaching
Most
important to form sub-committees to review our Calculus and Algeba
streams for the Math1003, MATH1013, MATH1014, MATH2305 courses. The
core membership of these sub-committees should be at least those people
who have lectured in these courses in the last few years.
AMSI has recently produced a report
on engineering mathemtics for the Carrick Institute. It has some
interesting discussion of techniques being used to engage engineering
students.
11. Any other business
12. Next Meeting
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