Colossal website update!
Colossal website update
A huge update at STARMAST today, with no fewer than 21 new pages of resources added to the site, 1000 active users and our upcoming Instagram takeover! 💫
Lots to say, so let’s get straight into it…
New website content
Not one, not two, but five new study guides on STARMAST - as well as supporting interactive elements!
Linear regression
Our first is on linear regression, and is written by Flora Green, a third-year VIP student from St Andrews (and student president-elect). It features bespoke R Shiny apps explaining the concepts, and all the links can be found here:
- Guide: Introduction to linear regression
- Questions: Introduction to linear regression
- Answers: Introduction to linear regression
It has a supporting calculator which you can find at Calculator: Simple linear regression. A huge thank you to Flora for writing these resources!
Confidence intervals
As part of her VIP, our social media guru and PR expert Millie Harris has written a guide introducing the concept of a confidence interval. As with the linear regression guide, it features bespoke R Shiny apps throughout and all the links can be found here:
- Guide: Introduction to confidence intervals
- Questions: Introduction to confidence intervals
- Answers: Introduction to confidence intervals
It has a supporting calculator which you can find at Calculator: Confidence intervals with normal distribution.. In addition, she has also made a sample statistics calculator which you can use to find sample means and standard deviations quickly; this can be found at Calculator: Sample data statistics.
Millie is hard at work this semester as well on a guide to \(t\)-testing, and she has prepared an interactive flowchart on this topic ahead of time; you can find it at Interactive: \(t\)-testing flow chart.
A huge thank you to Millie for writing these resources!
Fractions and algebraic fractions
Our final guides are all written by prolific final-year student Donald Campbell, on various aspects of fractions both involving numbers and variables. As with his previous introduction to fractions guide (find it at Guide: Introduction to fractions!) they include interactive html figures and at least 40 questions on each guide. Here are all the links:
- Guide: Introduction to algebraic fractions
- Questions: Introduction to algebraic fractions
- Answers: Introduction to algebraic fractions
- Guide: Arithmetic on algebraic fractions
- Questions: Arithmetic on algebraic fractions
- Answers: Arithmetic on algebraic fractions
where we have provided supporting calculators on highest common factors and lowest common multiples (Calculator: Highest common factor, lowest common multiple) and converting fractions to decimals and percentages (Calculator: Fractions, decimals, percentages) A big thank you Donald for writing these guides and resources!
1000 users!
On Thursday 2 April we were very pleased to welcome our 1000th user to the site! Here’s to the next thousand/ten thousand/hundred thousand visitors!
Instagram takeover
We’re pleased to say that thanks to PR guru and final-year VIP student Millie Harris, we will be taking over the official University of St Andrews Instagram page on Wednesday 8 April. Please see below our Instagram post announcing our takeover.
All the materials will be hosted on the website after the takeover :)
What’s to come…
Thanks to the fantastic work by our VIP students, in the works are guides (and questions and answers) on:
- matrix multiplication (written by Jessica Taberner)
- Gaussian elimination, applications of Gaussian elimination (written by Sara Delgado Garcia)
- 2D and 3D polar co-ordinates (written by Ali Kikivakaris and Anja Colombi)
- unit conversion (written by Ali Kikivakaris)
- determinants and their properties (written by Abigail Carpenter)
- intro to conic sections and their properties (written by Abigail Carpenter)
- implicit differentiation (tdhc)
and overviews on
- data analysis (written by Michelle Arnetta)
- sets of numbers and a history of number representation (written by Jessica Taberner)
- statistical notation (written by Flora Green)
- recognizing 3D surfaces (written by Donald Campbell)
These guides will be released as soon as they are all ready; stay tuned for more updates.
Finally, our VIP team this semester are focusing on discrete mathematics (sets, logic, binomial coefficients), statistics (t-testing and ANOVA) and ordinary differential equations.
A huge thank you to the entire student team who produced these materials. You are all always welcome at STARMAST.
Version history
- v1.0 initial version written by tdhc 03/04/26.