Sigma - Supporting Excellence - Structuring Progress

sigma's main activities can be summarised as follows:

• Enhancing and extending mathematics and statistics drop-in centres at both universities and beyond;
• Improving learning by teaching, or providing supplementary support to, identified groups of students in small groups;
• Extending existing specialist support for students with additional needs or specific learning difficulties;
• Developing a university-wide statistics consultancy service for postgraduate and final year undergraduate projects;
• Underpinning all work with a sound pedagogic footing;
• Investigating how new technologies can be used to enhance teaching and learning of mathematics, specifically in a support setting; and
• Disseminating findings and areas of good practice across the wider mathematics education community.

As a consequence of all the activities of sigma, students will:

• have a better understanding of the importance of mathematics and statistics to their mainstream discipline,
• develop more effective learning approaches to mathematics and statistics,
• be more proficient at using mathematics and statistics within their mainstream discipline,and
• succeed in greater numbers.