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StatCrunch Contest: Open a new world of data-driven decisions
Diane Hollister, Professor, Reading Area Community College | February 7, 2017StatCrunch. It sounds like a great name for a breakfast cereal for math nerds, but it’s a powerful piece...
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X, Y, and Z : And it’s not just Algebra!
Diane Hollister, Professor, Reading Area Community College | January 25, 2017As a “math person,” I love X’s, Y’s, and … Z’s?! What’s this with a Generation Z? You’ve most...
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Workspace: Intermediate Algebra students show work online
Professors Caree Pinder, Ruthmae Sears, Kenneth Butler, University of South Florida | January 24, 2017As mathematics educators, we place great value on developing students’ reasoning and justification skills. Hence, we frequently encourage students...
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Happy New Year! A new course awaits…
Diane Hollister, Professor, Reading Area Community College | January 3, 2017Happy New Year!! Hard to believe that another year has wrapped up and we’re past the holidays…and prepping a...
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Online homework helps students learn in ways traditional textbooks may not
Leslie B. Goldstein, Senior Lecturer, Freshman Math Program, Fort Lewis College | December 12, 2016How many times have you told your students that they should spend two to three hours outside of class...
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Got to make the connection between research and the classroom
Diane Hollister, Professor, Reading Area Community College | November 3, 2016If you’ve ever flown, most likely you’ve had to make a connecting flight. There’s nothing like the realization that...
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How a redesigned class redesigned my teaching
Christy Hediger, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Lehigh Carbon Community College | October 28, 2016While you’re teaching, are you sometimes met with blank stares? Do you ever feel that you are not getting...
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My top three misconceptions about digital learning (and why I was wrong)
Yolanda Manzano, Professor of Mathematics, Richland College | October 14, 2016One of my professors once said to me that if you teach math “you’re the only one in the...
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Why does an actor need good math skills?
Kaleena Steakle, Lone Star College Graduate, Actor | September 15, 2016That was the question I asked myself a few years ago. I used to joke that as an actor,...
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