Development of a Week-Long Mathematics Intervention for Incoming Chemistry Graduate Students.

ABSTRACT: A student-led mathematics bootcamp has been designed and implemented to help foster community building, improve confidence in mathematical skills, and provide mathematical resources for incoming physical chemistry doctoral students. The bootcamp is held immediately before the start of the first semester of graduate school and uses an active learning approach to review and practice undergraduate-level mathematics problems over 5 days in small student groups. This work includes the development and presentation of a new, publicly available mathematics curriculum for the bootcamp on select mathematics topics, including calculus, linear algebra, functions, differential equations, statistics, and coding in Python, aiming at improving students' confidence and learning experiences in graduate quan

SUBMITTER: Clune R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10501113 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature