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Title:
Strategies for Solving Application Problems
Summary:
Application problems are a constant source of frustration for both students and faculty. Come learn and take home several strategies that can help students get that “toe-hold” for approaching and solving these problems. Strategies focus on understanding what the problem is saying, getting organized, and interpreting the solution.
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Title:
Assessing the Efficacy, Feasibility, Practicality, Scaffolding, and Application of a Web-based Homework and Assessment System (HAS) for Jazzing Up Students’ Mathematical Studies in Community Colleges
Summary
A web-based homework and assessment system (HAS) can jazz up your class with features such as adaptive problem sets, instructional videos, and data-driving messages for instructors to use to monitor and assist students who have many need to address such as time management, poor preparation, not knowing how to study among many others that we can’t mention here but will discuss in our talk. If you want to adopt such a system, there are too many issues to be addressed but we will share our success story to help you get started. As time permits, there will be discussion centered around gaining a thorough understanding of how to measure the challenges and opportunities faced by community colleges instructors, students, and departments in adopting a HAS in the teaching of mathematics at our institutions.
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Title:
How to Flip a Math Lesson
Summary:
A flipped math lesson consists of students studying the lesson through watching a video, reading a text, or completing other activities at home, followed by exercise practice in class. Several tools that can be used to create a flipped lesson will be explored in detail.
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Title:
Peaks and Valleys:The Successes and Failures in the Redesign of My School’s Developmental Education
Summary:
My presentation introduces each format by identifying a problem and then the solution my department chose to address the problem. Using slides, personal testimonies, and data, I will describe each format change instituted in my school’s developmental mathematics courses and then I will share results achieved as measures of student success. I will allow time for attendees to ask questions.
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Title:
Why It Matters: Problem-Based Learning in Business Statistics
Summary:
Learn how vertically aligned problem-based learning fosters critical thinking and quantitative reasoning in Business Statistics. Using openly licensed content (OER), this course was redesigned to emphasize applications which deepen student comprehension of the foundation of statistics. The presenter will share assignments and lesson plans with the participants.
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Title:
From Adding to LaPlace Transforms in the Lives of Students
Summary:
Many students just do not like math they say they were never good at math and they just hate math. They think its boring and don’tpertane to nothing in their life. Basic math, algebra, trigonometry, and calclus are the same. Faculty need to be entertainers and jazz up the classroom. Make it fun. Make them laugh. Entertain your students to keep them coming to class so they can learn all they need from your lectures to turn back their ignorance.