Mathematics and statistics
Overview
Develop your skills in mathematics, statistics or numeracy with online tutorials, advice sheets, and one-to-one support.
One-to-one support on Frenchay Campus
espressoMaths (eM)
espressoMaths started in September 2008 and is run, and funded, by the College of Arts, Technology and Environment (CATE) Mathematics and Data Science cluster for all members of the University community. If you need help with a particular mathematical or statistical problem, then just pop along to espressoMaths and have a chat with the staff member on duty, who will be able to provide you with free, user-friendly advice. Please note that the expected interaction time is about ten minutes.
The schedule for espressoMaths will be made available soon.
One-to-one support at Glenside Library
If you need help with a particular mathematical or statistical problem, we offer free, user-friendly advice.
Please email Ann Smith at any time during the working week for assistance.
Mathematics
- HELM (Helping Engineers Learn Mathematics) workbooks: Covers basic and advanced maths and stats topics. The site is password protected. Request a password.
- Just the maths: Printable PDF notes on maths and stats topics.
- Khan Academy: Videos and interactive tests to help you progress from pre-university maths to advanced levels.
- MathDoctorBob: A large collection of short videos on a variety of mathematics topics from basic to advanced.
- mathcentre: Teach-yourself booklets, online exercises and revision booklets to help level 0 and 1 students with pre-university mathematics.
- Maths E.G.: A collection of maths questions spanning topics from GCSE to undergraduate level 2.
- Maths Screencasts: Open University videos to help you with maths topics.
- mathtutor: Guides and tutorials on the following topics (mostly for level 0 and level 1 students): arithmetic, algebra, functions and sequences, geometry and vectors, trigonometry, differentiation, integration.
Statistics
- HELM (Helping Engineers Learn Mathematics) workbooks: Covers basic and advanced maths and stats topics. The site is password protected: request a password.
- Hyperstat Online Statistics Textbook: Online textbook covering a range of statistics topics.
- Just the maths: Printable PDF notes on maths and stats topics.
- Khan Academy: probability and statistics. Videos and interactive tests to help you develop your statistics skills.
- Statstutor: Statistics support, including videos, tutorials, quizzes and fact-sheets.
- Stat trek: teach yourself statistics. A range of tutorials and tools covering: probability, probability distributions, descriptive statistics, hypothesis testing, survey sampling, regression, experiments.
Numeracy
- Drug Dosage Calculations: A guide from the School of Nursing at the University of Nottingham.
- Khan Academy: Videos and interactive tests to help you progress from pre-university maths to advanced levels.
- MathDoctorBob: A large collection of short videos on a variety of mathematics topics from basic to advanced.
- mathcentre: Teach-yourself booklets, online exercises and revision booklets to help level 0 and 1 students with pre-university mathematics.
- mathtutor: Guides and tutorials on basic arithmetic.
- Maths E.G.: A collection of maths questions spanning topics from GCSE to undergraduate level 2.
- Numeracy skills: Introductory tutorials on numeracy skills. Written for UWE Bristol HLS students, but applicable to all.
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