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Details of the Test Site Experience

Details of the Test Site Experience. Or, What it’s Like to Teach with These Materials. Materials. Online text Computer labs & software Mathcad Winplot (http://math.exeter.edu/rparris/winplot.html) Projects Worksheets Reports Microsoft Word w/ Equation Editor. Physical Space.

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Details of the Test Site Experience

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  1. Details of the Test Site Experience Or, What it’s Like to Teach with These Materials

  2. Materials • Online text • Computer labs & software • Mathcad • Winplot (http://math.exeter.edu/rparris/winplot.html) • Projects • Worksheets • Reports • Microsoft Word w/ Equation Editor

  3. Physical Space • Classroom • Seats 24 students • Non-movable tables with chairs (plus an extra table in the back for TAs) • Instructor station with computer, document camera, VCR/DVD • Lab • 12 computers w/ 2 chairs each • Instructor station as in classroom

  4. Class Schedule • Calculus classes are 4 credits • All calculus classes meet MWF for 1hour 45 minutes • Assigned both a classroom and a lab • Limit enrollment to 24 (occasionally up to 28) • We try to have at least one TA for each section

  5. What do TAs do? • Help answer questions in class (labs, projects, work time in class) • Hold office hours outside of class • Run review sessions • Other ideas: • Grade papers • Tutor individual students • Find data, develop new versions of projects

  6. A Typical Day? • Discussing the text as a class (sometimes means lecture) • Working on a lab in pairs • Working on a project in groups • Working on problems or a worksheet “individually” (i.e., with a neighbor when needed) • Writing a report in groups

  7. Sample Schedule: Calc I • Week 1 – Introductions & discussion of class format; Being a Pedometer activity; reading practice day; Intro to Mathcad lab; Cover 1.1 & 1.2 • Week 2 – Cover 1.3 & 1.4; read group guidelines; Functions Defined by Data lab • Week 3 – Cover 1.5 & 1.6; Speed and Acceleration project; discuss writing lab reports; Writing Reports in Word lab

  8. Calc I Schedule, con’t • Week 4 – Cover 2.1, 2.2 & 2.3; discuss lab report rewrites; Interest lab • Week 5 – Cover 2.4; Fruit Fly project; Winplot lab • Week 6 – Cover 2.5 & 2.6 (exponentials); Slope Fields in Winplot; Exam 1

  9. Calc I Schedule, con’t • Week 7 – Cover 2.6 (power functions) & 3.1; AIDS project • Week 8 – Cover 3.2; Limpop lab • Week 9 – Cover 3.3 & 4.1; IVP worksheet; box problem

  10. Calc I Schedule, con’t • Week 10 – Cover 4.1 (more time) & 4.2; Newton’s method lab • Week 11 – Cover 4.4 & 4.5; Chain Rule worksheet • Week 12 – Cover 4.6, 4.7 & 4.8; differentiation practice sheet; Exam 2

  11. Calc I Schedule, con’t • Week 13 – Cover 5.1; Raindrops lab • Week 14 – Cover 5.2; More Rain lab; Euler’s method worksheet; Rain reports • Week 15 – Cover 5.5; Steady State problems; Trig lab • Week 16 – Review sheet

  12. Sample Schedule: Calc II • Week 1 – Cover 6.1; Calc I Skills Review worksheet; review project • Week 2 – Cover 6.2 & 6.3 • Week 3 – Cover 7.1; Worldpop lab; Population Models report; Differentiation Test

  13. Calc II Schedule, con’t • Week 4 – Cover 7.1 (more); Area lab; Mass of a Bar project; FTC lab • Week 5 – Cover 7.2 & 8.1; Centers of Mass data collection; FTC worksheet; Inverses lab • Week 6 – Cover 8.1 (more); Centers of Mass worksheet; Exam 1

  14. Calc II Schedule, con’t • Week 7 – Cover 8.3 & 8.4 (algebraic & trig sub); Maple lab; mobile project • Week 8 – Cover 8.4 (integration by parts); Trig Sub lab; Integral Table worksheet • Week 9 – Substitution project; Integration worksheet; Arclength lab

  15. Calc II Schedule, con’t • Week 10 – Cover 9.1 & 9.2; Limits • Week 11 – Cover 10.1; Taylor lab part 1; Exam 2 • Week 12 – Cover 10.2, 10.3 & 10.4?; Taylor lab part 2; Integration Bee

  16. Calc II Schedule, con’t • Week 13 – Integration Test • Week 14 – Cover 10.4 (more – if needed), 10.5 & 10.6; Harmonic series worksheet; AST worksheet • Week 15 – Cover 10.6 (more – if needed); Ratio Test worksheet; EKG lab?? • Week 16 – Review worksheet

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