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Title: Mathematics Support for Students on Vocational Courses


1
Mathematics Support for Students on Vocational
Courses
  • By Susan Starkings
  • London South Bank University

2
The Skills Unit Team
  • Manager - Susan Starkings
  • Academic Staff - Catherine Boyle
  • - Plus 50-70 HPLs
  • - IT Library academic staff
  • Administrators - Ahmed Mohamed (F/T)
  • - Dhurium Kurcuku (P/T)

3
Responsibilities
  • Manage the Academic Admin staff, conduct
    appraisals, recruitment of new staff etc.
  • Develop new innovative ways of providing
    service to LSBU students
  • Manage budgets of p/t teaching hours and
    operational budget of Pre-Study English course
  • Organise programmes of support for students
  • Manage quality assurance
  • Ensure that the unit complies with QAA
    requirements, HEFCE guidelines

4
Responsibilities
  • Training and mentoring of academic support
    staff
  • Scholarship research
  • Teaching/academic/professional activities
  • Updating academic knowledge education
    initiatives
  • Be active in LSBU central processes e.g.
    validations
  • and projects ( e.g. Change Academy Project)
  • Develop teaching materials

5
SWOT Strengths of the Skills Unit
  • Established unit within LDC LSBU (since 1998)
    and grown significantly since then.
  • Service 1998 2004-05
  • Fast Track U/G 06-80 350
  • Fast Track P/G - 65
  • Fast Track Clearing - New Course
  • Pre-Study English - 100
  • Moving On - 98
  • Maths for Social Workers 25
  • Foundation 40 61
  • Maths Support 238 975
  • Study Skills 342 1533
  • English - 3577

6
Strengths of the Skills Unit (cont)
  • Experienced Academic staff with expertise in
    Maths, Statistics, English, Study Skills
    Communications IT
  • Classes/support provided at Essex Southwark
    campuses
  • Student centred teaching
  • Run a good informal staff development programme
  • Teaching resources on web and in teaching room

7
SWOT Weaknesses of Skills Unit
  • Lack of office space in Caxton House
  • Room usage for support classes - shared
  • Limited access for disabled students
  • Lack of IT equipment in teaching rooms
  • Turn over of staff
  • Training mentoring takes up a lot of time

8
SWOT - Opportunities
  • Widening Participation agenda just keeps growing
  • Increase usage levels by students
  • Greater/closer working with the IT/Library staff

9
SWOT - Threats
  • Faculties wanting to do their own thing
  • Academic Staff moving to other institutions or
    LSBU faculties

10
PGCE/ITT Questions
  • Number of marks available
  • Mental arithmetic 12 marks (12mins)
  • Interpreting and using statistical information
    7marks
  • Using and applying general arithmetic 9 marks
  • Test is timed 48 minutes. 36 minutes for the 16
    longer questions.
  • The total marks 28 and the pass mark is 60 i.e.
    candidates must get at least 17 marks to pass.
  • For the numeracy test an on-screen calculator is
    available for use on all questions except the
    mental arithmetic section.

11
Example Mental Arithmetic Questions
  • 1. The entrance fee for an exhibition is three
    pounds seventy five. What will be the total
    entrance fee for a school party of 50 pupils?
  • 2. Two-fifths of a class of twenty-five pupils
    were girls. What percentage were boys?
  • 3. All 300 Year 11 pupils in a school took GCSE
    English. The number of pupils gaining grade C or
    above increased from 85 in the mock exam to 93
    in the actual exam. How many more pupils gained
    grade C or above in the actual exam than in the
    mock exam?

12
Example Longer Questions
13
Numeracy Test Questions
  • Using the information given, indicate which of
    the following are true 
  •  a quarter of the pupils achieved a result of at
    least 50 in both the practical and theory
    components
  • half of the pupils achieved a result of at least
    50 in the practical component
  • the two pupils with the lowest marks in the
    practical component also had the lowest marks in
    the theory component
  • Answer....................

14
Example Business Studies
  • Increasing by a Percentage
  • Suppose we want to increase 200 by 10
  • We get 10 of 200 (the increase) and add this to
    200.
  • A quicker way is to multiply 200 by 1.2 i.e. 200
    x 1.2 240 but why 1.2? 20 as a fraction is
    0.2 so we want to increase the original number by
    a faction 0.2 i.e. we want the original number
    0.2 of the original number. This is altogether
    1.2 of the original number or the original number
    x 1.2.
  • As a formula New value Old value (1
    increase/100)

15
Example Nursing
16
Maths for Social Workers
  • The following are the expenditures for a
    department for 2004
  • Monthly expenditure for 2004
  • Month
  • Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug
    Sep Oct Nov Dec
  • Amount()
  • 227 254 212 227 220 236 254 234
    543 545 550 652
  • Display this information graphically
  • What is the average expenditure for the year?
  • Comment on the years expenditure for this
    department and its possible future expenditure.
  • ( 10 marks)

17
Maths for Social Workers
  • As a social worker you will be expected to
    complete expenses clams. During December you
    incurred the following expenses, which you need
    to claim for
  • Attendance at court incurred travelling 53 miles
    round trip.
  • Train fare to Plymouth 64.
  • Overnight accommodation in Plymouth cost 49.95.

18
Maths for Social Workers
  • Lunch in Plymouth cost 8.90
  • General travelling to visit clients 247 miles.
  • Mileage allowance is 32 pence per mile.
  • What is the total cost of expenses for December
    that you will claim back?
  • ( 6 marks)

19
Summary
  • Keep pool of staff able to teach at the level
    required (i.e. Pre-entry to Postgraduate)
  • Administration Organisation increases as the
    service expands
  • Running all year has holiday issues
  • Funding
  • Teaching materials
  • Quotes I do appreciate what the tutors did for
    me
  • The best aspect of the course was the amount of
    knowledge I have attained in such as short amount
    of time.

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Skills Unit
  • Any Questions ?
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