|
|
Re: Introduce a new course.
Posted:
Feb 15, 2010 7:26 AM
|
|
|
|
An idea worth considering.
Looks like 110 is a ³liberal arts² math.
What does a student need to do statistics?
Thank you
Phil
On 2/14/10 10:10 PM, "Revathi Narasimhan" <rnarasim@kean.edu> wrote:
> The Univ. of Maryland has for many years offered non-STEM credit bearing
> courses with a dev. math "wrapper". This is for students who do not directly
> place into Finite math, Liberal Arts math or similar courses. The course runs
> 5 days a week, and the dev. math component meets for the first five weeks.
> The students learn enough algebra for the subsequent credit bearing portion.
> After that, students take a placement test and move on to the credit bearing
> portion if they pass the test. Otherwise they continue in a dev. math course.
>
> http://www.math.umd.edu/undergraduate/courses/syllabi/syllabusMATH010.html
>
> I'd love to know if this approach has been tried at CC's or 4-year colleges.
>
> If a student starts in prealgebra - they can do a semester of prealg and then
> move into the combo dev.math/Non-Stem credit course. If a student places
> higher than prealg but lower than a credit course, then they can move into the
> combo course directly.
>
> A combo course should be offered as an option to the traditional sequence.
> More motivated students who may need just a quick review would benefit from
> this. These motivated non-STEM students should not be constrained to sit
> though one dev. math course after another, one semester after another.
>
> --Reva Narasimhan
> Kean University
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Laura Bracken <bracken@lcsc.edu> wrote:
>>
>> The question is -- can we change the content and pedagogy of developmental
>> mathematics courses so that a student who has basic arithmetic and numeracy
>> skills can take a single (one-semester) developmental mathematics course and
>> then advance into a transferable math course? (This is not a STEM path.)
>>
>> This idea of the number of courses being discouraging/a barrier may not apply
>> to students who are on an intermediate/pre-calc/calculus path.
>>
>> Laura
>>
>
>
|
|
