You Cant Say I Didnt Use Algebra Today
You Can’t Say “I Didn’t Use Algebra Today” Anymore AMATYC 2015 Pat Riley Hopkinsville Community College (KY)
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AMATYC 2015 WHO ARE OUR STUDENTS? 1. Students planning to take Calculus sequence 2. Students needing to take Statistics or Business Calculus 3. Students needing an additional math course 4. Students needing just “College Algebra”
AMATYC 2015 TRADITIONAL APPROACH We have been teaching to maybe 5% of the students at the expense of the other 95%. . and this is just at the College Algebra level.
AMATYC 2015 QUANTITATIVE LITERACY APPROACH Teach to the 95% in a way that is meaningful for them and hopefully inspire them to join the 5% who are going to calculus….
AMATYC 2015 QUANTITATIVE LITERACY APPROACH …. without harming the 5% who are planning to go on to calculus.
AMATYC 2015 QUANTITATIVE LITERACY APPROACH #1: #2: #3: #4: #5: Familiarity with graphs, variables, and function notation throughout course Applications, and applications Extensive use of Excel for graphing Hands-0 n Demonstrations / Explorations Assessment via homework / demonstration
AMATYC 2015 #1: Familiarity with graphs, variables, and function notation throughout course -Opening “make a graph” activity -Re-enforce graphing, patterns, variables, and notation early and often -Good introduction to scatter plots / regression for Stats -Function notation is the original texting lingo
AMATYC 2015 #1: Familiarity with graphs, variables, and function notation throughout course “Five seconds after being launched, the toy rocket will be three hundred twenty-five feet in the air. ” (18 words – 84 characters)
AMATYC 2015 #1: Familiarity with graphs, variables, and function notation throughout course h(5) = 325 (0 words – 8 characters)
AMATYC 2015 #1: Familiarity with graphs, variables, and function notation throughout course ALL students are going to need to be able to read and interpret graphs. ALL students need to be able to understand how variables interact with each other. Students going on to higher level math needs a good handle with function notation.
AMATYC 2015 #2: Applications, and applications -Most students think they do not like algebra because they don’t realize how much they already use it and actually understand it. -They’ve never been shown it from this perspective.
AMATYC 2015 #2: Applications, and applications -Instead of trying to bring students into the world of algebra…. show them algebra is already in their world!
AMATYC 2015 #2: Applications, and applications
AMATYC 2015 #2: Applications, and applications
AMATYC 2015 #3: Extensive use of Excel for graphing -Rational functions / Asymptotes -Olympic Systems Of Equations -Zombie Plague -CSI Data Plotting -Polynomial Roller Coasters
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AMATYC 2015 #4: Hands-0 n Demonstrations / Explorations -Engage the students…. even if it is silly -M&M decay -Nerf Gun Vertex -Making Ellipses -Whispering Rooms -Design Beam
AMATYC 2015 #4: Hands-0 n Demonstrations / Explorations
AMATYC 2015 #4: Hands-0 n Demonstrations / Explorations -Engage the students…. even if it is silly -M&M decay -Nerf Gun Vertex -Making Ellipses -Whispering Rooms -Design Beam
AMATYC 2015 #4: Hands-0 n Demonstrations / Explorations
AMATYC 2015 #4: Hands-0 n Demonstrations / Explorations -Engage the students…. even if it is silly -M&M decay -Nerf Gun Vertex -Making Ellipses -Whispering Rooms -Design Beam
AMATYC 2015 #5: Assessment via homework / demonstration -CSI Agents -Basketball Shooting -Drawing Ellipses
AMATYC 2015 #5: Assessment via homework / demonstration
AMATYC 2015 Critical Thinking Bonuses - Nerf Gun shooting -Cryptography -Spock then Lisa Simpson then Leonard Hofstadter
AMATYC 2015 Thank You For Attending!! Pat Riley patrick. riley@kctcs. edu
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