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The development of mathematics support: teaching and learning practices, scholarship and communities

Duncan Lawson
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Mathematics support for students is an innovation in the teaching and learning of mathematics which now plays a vital role in their learning experience and which is provided by most universities in the United Kingdom, and increasingly in other parts of the world. This paper describes and reviews research into the development of this provision over the last 30 years or so, providing a rationale for its establishment in terms of student under-preparedness for the mathematical demands of university study, widening participation in higher education and the increasing importance of mathematical and statistical skills to a very wide range of disciplines. The most common model used to provide mathematics support is a 'drop-in' centre which offers one-to-one support to students who attend to see an
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hal-03426970 , version 1 (12-11-2021)
hal-03426970 , version 2 (04-02-2022)
hal-03426970 , version 3 (15-06-2022)
hal-03426970 , version 4 (05-08-2022)

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Duncan Lawson, Michael Grove, Tony Croft. The development of mathematics support: teaching and learning practices, scholarship and communities. Épijournal de Didactique et Epistémologie des Mathématiques pour l’Enseignement Supérieur, 2022, 1 | 2022, ⟨10.46298/epidemes-9097⟩. ⟨hal-03426970v4⟩
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