Embedded Labs for MAT 171 and 172 What

Embedded Labs for MAT 171 and 172 What to do with the time?

Presenters NC Curriculum Improvement Project Steering Committee Members Dale Gaddis: Math instructor, Isothermal Community College dgaddis@isothermal. edu Lisa Meads: Math instructor, College of The Albemarle lisa_meads@albemarle. edu Laura Taylor: Math instructor, Cape Fear Community College ltaylor@cfcc. edu.

Why Embedded Labs? The steering committee advised embedding labs for the following reasons: ❏ Ensure consistency across the state community college system ❏ Provide extra time to develop deeper understanding ❏ Increase rigor and success for precalculus courses ❏ Improve success rates for sequential courses

How to use labs? How your college chooses to use the lab hours will vary depending on the specific logistics of your school. ❏ Extra, more in depth, assignments ❏ In class projects ❏ Out of class projects ❏ Supplemental material not covered in textbook ❏ Provide preview to Calculus concepts Don’t just add two hours of lecture to your current 3 hour course

What to consider when creating a lab assignment? ❏ How much time will it take? ❏ How much credit is it worth to the overall course grade? ❏ Will it be an in class or out of class assignment? ❏ How much time will the student have to complete it? ❏ Will students complete it Individually or as a group assignment? ❏ How much time will it take to grade?

How to create labs? ❏ Use the projects or most challenging questions from the textbook ❏ Departmental committees to share lab assignments ❏ Websites… - http: //www. mastermathmentor. com/ ❏ Other sources of information ❏ Problems that are aligned specifically to sequential courses ❏ Real world uses of concept material