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Vol: 
2
Num: 
4
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Authors: 
Ketih Hirst
Abstract: 
MathBank website resources database contains resources to help maths lecturers share notes, problems, exam questions and other resources. Funded as a result of the author who set up the project after being awarded the National Teaching Fellowship in 2000… The intention is to save lecturers as a whole the unnecessary time and labour in such an enterprise, by providing a resource bank of notes, problems, examination questions and perhaps other resources which can be downloaded and then customized. To be of use it is important that the database is easily accessible, and searchable, and that the material is available in formats which colleagues can easily manipulate. It is important that the database should not be static, so that new material can be added and that this should be a reasonably straightforward process. It is hoped that these criteria have been achieved. The Fellowship funds enabled us to employ programming expertise from Southampton University’s Geodata Unit to provide the structure we wanted…
Filename: 
24mathbank.pdf
Keywords: 
MathBank, database, web resources, LaTeX, notes, problems, exam questions, computer aided assessment (CAA), question bank, maths, mathematics, software, re-usable lecture resources, lecturer support, project, MSOR Connections Nov 2002 Vol 2 No 4