| Sumari: | The ability to understand and apply mathematical principles is essential to building and sustaining knowledge and expertise in the sciences, statistics, economics, engineering, information technology and many other areas. But students at all levels struggle with learning mathematical material, and disengaging from their discipline area. This project aimed to develop tools and approaches to enhance the quantitative and mathematical skills of students at the lower tertiary and upper secondary levels by producing a much more sophisticated resource than extant electronic mathematics teaching tools. Rather than generating randomised variants of well-defined questions, along with the corresponding simple numeric answers, the project developed a tool that generates a suite of random questions and corresponding fully worked, formatted solutions to every question, clearly and unambiguously reproducing the steps that students typically take when solving that problem. There are 138 question templates, covering essentials of advanced secondary and introductory tertiary mathematics, and content from science, engineering and business. Additional funding support has been obtained and development continues toward a comprehensive web-based interface.
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