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Writing in a Mathematics Course

Writing in a Mathematics Course. By Claudia Rizza LaGuardia Community College. Introduction. Introduction of writing in a Mathematics course: Elementary Statistics. Description.

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Writing in a Mathematics Course

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  1. Writing in a Mathematics Course By Claudia Rizza LaGuardia Community College

  2. Introduction • Introduction of writing in a Mathematics course: Elementary Statistics

  3. Description • Every time I taught Elementary Statistics, I wanted my students to do one to two pages of analysis. Unfortunately, my students would write one or two paragraphs only. The WID program helped me staging a project and students were able to write fifteen pages of definitions and analysis.

  4. Examples of samples(minimum sample size is 30): 1. Students ages. 2. Students hours of sleep. 3. How much people spend on holiday gifts. 4. Yes/No questions: Smoke or not. 5. How many cigarettes per day you smoke. 6. Expected grades in a certain class. 7. Country of origin. 8. Movies they like. 9. Sports they like.

  5. The Project 1. Finding data 2. Expectation from the data 3. Definition of terms and analysis of the statistics 4. Description of graphs and analysis of graphs used. 5. Definition of Z-score and possible application to the project. 6. Conclusion

  6. Examples

  7. Description • Many times students have asked me how and when they are going to use mathematics in their lives after graduation from college. The course College Algebra and Trigonometry gave me the opportunity to demonstrate students that mathematics is useful. The DFL program showed me different teaching approaches through technology. One of them was the Inquiry Activities. These activities use web sites. The students have to use this information to find possible formulas.

  8. Examples of Inquiry Activities • Linear Functions • Exponential Functions

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