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RE: Introduce a new course.
Posted:
Feb 16, 2010 12:02 PM
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I think this course looks very worthwhile. The students did at least as
well as before with less discouragement. They probably didn't hate math
as much as in the previouos model. And I thought a 7% increase in
success for one group is significant. It's most helpful in a one
semester program. Increasing the rate for every course in the
traditional 2,3 or 4 semester sequence by 7% would achieve very little
while ironically being much harder to achieve.
I also personally don't think every student has to understand
mathematical thinking as we seem to stress so much. Critical thinking,
yes, but that can be achieved in a large scope.
I'd like non STEM students to be numerate and be introduced to
statistics. Numeracy is tough for a certain segment of our population,
but I don't think we reach those students now. ... I think I need to
re-read Paulos' Numeracy book, I remember being impressed with it about
what an educated citizen needs to know in the quantitatve world.
Phil
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-mathedcc@mathforum.org [mailto:owner-mathedcc@mathforum.org]
On Behalf Of Jonathan Groves
Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 8:34 AM
To: mathedcc@mathforum.org
Subject: Re: Introduce a new course.
Revathi Narasimhan had written:
> Here is some more info on the Univ. of MD program dev math program,
> including some stats on performance:
>
> http://www.maa.org/features/112103devmath.html
It sounds like the students did no worse with this new program than with
the previous one, but it's hard to imagine students doing much worse
than they doing now in developmental mathematics anyway.
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