The Mathematics and Statistics module is offered as a basic module for the Business Administration (B.A.) degree programme. In preparation for the individual face-to-face exercises, students are provided with exercises as exercise series for independent practice in the Moodle learning management system. These are created with the maths tool STACK.
Possible applications and benefits of STACK
STACK is integrated into the Test activity as a Moodle plug-in and can be used for all subject areas in which mathematical competences are required.
With STACK, students can solve interactive exercises and receive automatically generated yet individualised feedback. This encourages independent learning and deepens the understanding of complex mathematical concepts. Lecturers can create STACK questions on topics such as differential equations and linear algebra and design questions in such a way that they allow different solution paths and generate individual parameters (randomly generated tasks) for each student. The randomised tasks can ensure that different students have different variants of a task.
STACK offers a wide range of functions that are tailored to the needs of maths and science teachers.
Advantages of STACK
- Increased interactivity: Students can test their knowledge in a safe environment and receive immediate feedback, which leads to more active participation.
- Individual learning: By randomising the task parameters, each student receives unique tasks, which minimises the exchange of solutions and promotes individual learning.
- Dynamic visualisation: Diagrams and graphics can be generated dynamically based on student input. These visualisations help to make abstract concepts more tangible.
- Efficient assessment: Automatic assessment saves lecturers correction time. Automatic correction also enables quick and direct feedback to students.
- Long-term use and reusability: Tasks created once can be used multiple times and easily customised. This saves teachers time in the long term when creating new content.
