Higher Education Events

This talk will focus on the overlap of career readiness skills and college readiness skills. Among the topics of discussion will be instructional strategies and specific examples to use to integrate college and career readiness. Included in this talk is the importance of time management and setting goals, as well as specific examples, such as calculating GPA and other statistics, and financial examples

Data "hackathons"--such as the American Statistical Association DataFest--are an increasingly popular venue for college students to strengthen their data analysis skills and to network with industry professionals. Such hackathons are not (yet) part of the two-year college culture and yet, these events can serve as a useful tool for 'back engineering' a curriculum.

The pathways movement has generated interest in mathematics courses that provide relevant content for non-algebraically-intensive programs of study. The New Mathways Project Quantitative Reasoning course, from the Charles A. Dana Center, provides authentic content that is rigorous, engaging, and relevant to students' home, community, and professional lives. The supplemental resources for faculty provide support for facilitating an active learning environment and building students' self-regulation. In this session, you'll hear from speaker, Connie Richardson about the evolution and relevancy of this course for both Liberal Arts and Fine Arts Students

What is Quantitative Reasoning (QR), and why is it important for us to teach QR? QR is associated with the mathematics we need for decision making in our personal, professional, and public lives. The presenter will discuss implementation ideas and best practices for creating a new quantitative reasoning course that develops the fundamental quantitative literacy crucial for informed citizenship. He'll also discuss teaching using spreadsheets, even without a computer classroom. And he’ll explore some of the cutting edge functionality built into his new digital course, Thinking Quantitatively, which allows for a flipped classroom experience centered on inquiry based learning

Are you planning to teach a pathways course? This session will delve into the nuts and bolts of using Math Lit in the classroom. We will discuss topics that include the cycle structure of the book, how a lesson works, how book homework and MyMathLab work together, focus problem projects, features of the MyMathLab course, and instructor resources. Suggestions for teaching with groups will also be shared

Dr. Rickard will discuss Motivation and Readiness in the Finite Mathematics classroom. He will cover techniques, videos and assessments used to manage large classrooms and individual students. Dr. Rickard has produced a series of Calculator Help Videos recently added to MyMathLab for the Lial/Greenwell/Ritchey Finite Mathematics text

In this presentation, author Kirk Trigsted takes you on a journey through the evolution of his innovative eText series. He'll share best practices that illustrate how his students, and students from many other colleges and universities, have benefited from this unique, interactive eText. The session will also show the next phase of the eText series that will—for the first time—allow instructors to assign reading and homework for a grade directly from the eText

There are many ways to create powerful learning environments using games. Come find out what the research says about the use of games in the classroom, including healthy versus unhealthy competition, and the importance of matching the type of game to your instructional goals. The focus of the talk will be on the use of brief games that require either simple technology or no technology at all. You will leave with a set of guidelines for how to develop your own games, as well as a list of games that are classroom ready. Who knew learning could be so much fun?

Discover how an innovative and exciting path-to-stats course can replace algebra courses and ensure student success in an elementary statistics course by emphasizing density histograms, challenging data­centered exercises, and interpreting statistical concepts. The presenter, who authored a textbook designed for this course, will discuss structure as well as students' and instructors' experiences with the course

Math Literacy for College Students (MLCS), part of the AMATYC's New Life and Carnegie's Quantway initiatives, creates a new experience and alternate pathway in developmental math. It offers an innovative and accelerated way to redesign by using integrated contextual content and technology to prepare a developmental student for a statistics or liberal arts math class. This session will describe the course, content, and approach, while exploring data from Rock Valley College's four-year pilot and implementation

Students are more successful in developmental math courses when they have the opportunity to learn challenging math concepts relevant to their goals in an engaging, active learning environment. The Dana Center's New Mathways Project, Foundations for Mathematical Reasoning, helps faculty teach a course with content, curriculum design and pedagogy that is both evidence-based and informed by faculty who have taught the courses

One goal of my introductory statistics class is to make student aware of the world of data that surrounds them and give them tools for productively interacting with that world. I'll describe a discussion I lead to introduce students to ways of thinking about data. The discussion compares data collected through GasBuddy.com with federal data obtained through data.gov