Leanne Rylands

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Biography

I am currently a member of the research group "Success in Tertiary Mathematics" and with this group am studying and developing strategies for success in first year university mathematics for students with a poor maths background.

I am also a member of the research group "Theoretical Investigations in Mathematics and Statistics". I am working with Dr Ian Roberts (CDU) and others on various problems in Combinatorics.

I also have an interest in permutation puzzles (for example Rubik's Cube).

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Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise

Mathematics and Computer Science. I also run the work experience subject for IT support students.

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Publications

L. Rylands and C. Coady, Performance of students with weak mathematics in first year mathematics and science, Int. J. Math. Educ. Sci. Technol., Accepted,

L. Rylands and C. Coady, The use of reflective journals in a first year mathematics unit, Proceedings of the 2008 UniServe Science symposium, 166--170, 2008.

L. Rylands and Ian T. Roberts Minimal (n) and (n,h,k) completely separating systems, Australas. J. Combin., 33, 57--66, 2005.

L. Rylands, I. Roberts, S. D'Arcy, K. Gilbert, O. Phanalasy, Separating Systems, Sperner Systems, Search Theory, Proceedings of the sixteenth Australasian workshop on combinatorial algorithms, 279--288, 2005.

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I have been a course leader for many years at the National Mathematics Summer School.

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