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Dr Peter McIntyre

Visiting Fellow
BSc PhD ANU

School of Physical, Environmental and Mathematical Sciences
UNSW @ ADFA
Canberra   ACT   2600
AUSTRALIA

Phone: +61 2 6268 8896
Fax: +61 2 6268 8786
Email: p.mcintyre@adfa.edu.au
Location: PEMS Sth, Room 136

Research Interests:

Human and Insect Vision
Providing resources for teachers in High School and College - see my page on High School and College activities.

Science Education - Mathematics Education - Academic performance of officer cadets

Biography
Teaching
Research

Current Research

Modelling activities (Mathematics/Science) for school students in Years 9-12
Dr Peter McIntyre

Many high-school textbooks are lacking in applications of Mathematics to problems that might interest students. This CD provides a wide range of such activities, based on the use of graphics calculators.

Recent Research

Academic performance of officer cadets
Dr Steven Barry, Dr Joanne Chapman & Dr Peter McIntyre

We investigate how the state of origin and educational achievements in Year 12 of officer cadets predict their academic performance at UNSW@ADFA.

Misconceptions in tertiary science and engineering mathematics
Dr Zlatko Jovanoski, Assoc. Prof. Harvinder Sidhu & Dr Peter McIntyre

We investigate misconceptions at higher undergraduate levels, both in Science and Engineering Mathematics courses. This research provides us with some general insights into student learning, and our results may have general implications for pedagogical practice.

Photoreceptors and directional effects in human vision
Dr Peter McIntyre & Prof. Colin Pask
The photoreceptors in the human eye behave like waveguides, and this has an influence on the human visual process. Classic experiments by Stiles and Crawford established certain directional effects that can be explained using waveguide optics for the receptor cells. This project examines the status of those theories and their use for understanding recent highly refined experiments investigating the structure and properties of the human fovea.

Publications
  1. McIntyre, P., (in press), CD of mathematics/science activities for secondary schools.
  2. Jovanoski Z., McIntyre P.D., 2000, Solving first-Order differential equations using a graphics calculator,
    Australian Mathematical Society Gazette, 27(4), 168-172.