• Draft: Mathematics education for biology students: 1. convergence and divergent thinking
• Project
• Notes from the taught weekends
• Some interesting concepts
• Course details
• Other links

• Draft Project

• Assignment structure
• Draft 18/5/00. Review of literature
  • The dialogue between biology and mathematics
  • Guilford's 'divergent' and 'convergent' operations
  • Liam Hudson: divergence and the arts/science division
  • Orton: divergent thinking and mathematics education
• Draft 18/5/00. Methodolgy
  • Objective testing in Guilford and Hudson
  • Critical theory and Q methodology
• Draft 13/6/00. Q-sort form.
• References

• A letter asking for students to experiment upon.
• Convergence and Divergence
• Notes for 'task'
• Assignment structure

• Divergent thinking and Q methodology
• PLM - Notes - 8/2/00
• Significance of tests
• Fisher exact 2x2 test
• Kolmogorov - Smirnov test

• PLM - Notes - 28-29/1/00

• Initial notes, etc.

• Absolutism & Relativism
• Convergence and Divergence
• Partition
• Discrete mathematics
• Guilford's 'structure of intellect' model
• Concept maps
• Mathematics and biology

Course texts:

Ernest, P. (2000) "The psychology of learning mathematics", course notes, University of Exeter

Orton, Anthony (1992) "Learning Mathematics, 2nd. ed." Cassell, London

• References and further reading.

• Mathematics Education Bibliography
• University of Exeter Library /All Locations
• Mathematics
• The Fractal Microscope