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ArticleJournal of chemical education2023

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

Rachel Clune, Avishek Das, Dipti Jasrasaria, Elliot Rossomme, Orion Cohen, Anne M Baranger

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Article in Journal of chemical education, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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6 authors.

Rachel CluneKenneth S. Pitzer Center for Theoretical Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6183-6579
Avishek DasKenneth S. Pitzer Center for Theoretical Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0269-7721
Dipti JasrasariaDepartment of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7632-6718
Elliot RossommeChemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4727-0652
Orion CohenMaterials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States.
Anne M BarangerDepartment of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1973-4632

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6 · The paper itself

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 quantum mechanics and statistical physics courses. Surveys before and after the bootcamp showed an increase in students' confidence in problem-solving in key mathematical areas and social aspects of peer-led group learning. Qualitative and quantitative analyses demonstrate that the bootcamp reduced prior inequities in students' confidence metrics based on gender and mathematical background.

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PMCPMC10501113

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