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Numeracy Centre - C5A 225

About the Numeracy Centre

The Numeracy Centre, co-ordinated by Carolyn Kennett, is located in C5A 225 and has two major aims:

  1. To improve students' access to mathematics and numeracy-based courses, such as statistics, at undergraduate and postgraduate level.
  2. To improve students' completion rates of mathematics and numeracy-based courses.

In striving to achieve these aims, the Numeracy Centre offers a number of services including a free drop-in service, weekly workshops for some first year courses, bridging programs and preparatory courses at the beginning of each semester and some on-line resources.

The Numeracy Centre is funded by the University through Access and Equity initiatives. It has two permanent members of staff, the Director of the Centre, Carolyn Kennett and a part time lecturer, Dilshara Hill. The Centre also employs a number of casual tutors who work in the centre on a roster basis and also teach some of the workshops.

Casual staff currently employed by the Numeracy Centre are:

  • Sanka Balasuriya
  • Tom Booker
  • Nan Carter
  • Paul Emanuel
  • Alana Flentje
  • Geoff Edington-Cheater
  • Judyth Hayne
  • Poon Leung
  • Kenny Liew
  • Daniel Linssen
  • Eric Lui
  • Fu Ken Ly
  • Joshua Peate
  • Anthony Wong
  • Kenny Xu

Carolyn and Dilshara can be contacted by phone on 9850 8924. The Numeracy Centre phone number is 9850 8797. Alternatively you can email us at numeracy@science.mq.edu.au.

 

 

Quote of the Semester

The universe stands continually open to our gaze, but it cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and interpret the characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are ... geometric figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it; without these, one is wondering about in a dark labyrinth.

Galileo