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S tatistics L iberal A rts M ath. Pasadena City College. Motivation & History. Current Curriculum. CALCULUS. Does the curriculum serve our population?. Create a new track for SLAM. Completion. Backwards Design What math does a SLAM student need?. Statistics. Quantitative Literacy 1. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Statistics Liberal Arts MathPasadena City College
Motivation & History
Current Curriculum
CALCULUS
Does the curriculum serve our population?
Create a new track for SLAM
Completion
Backwards DesignWhat math does a SLAM student need?
Statistics
Liberal Arts Math
Real Life
QuantitativeLiteracy 2
QuantitativeLiteracy 1
SLAM vs. STEM
Quantitative Literacy
1
Quantitative Literacy 2
Statistics
Liberal Arts Math
Beginning Algebra
Intermediate Algebra STEM Track
Creating Learning Experiences
• Discovery-based activities
• Using Manipulatives to understand mathematical ideas
• Excel Labs to both explore concepts and analyze data
• Projects – Tracking Expenses– Stock Project– Home Buying Project
Created our own course materials
QL2: Course Content
Statistics
• Measures of Center and Weighted Mean
• Measuring Spread
• Graphical Representations of Data
• Correlation and Estimating the Best-fit Line
Finance
• Simple vs Compound Interest• Payday Loans• Credit Cards• Annuities• Amortized Loans
• Student Loans
• Home Loans
Probability
• Events, Simple Events, Combining sets
• Counting – Fundamental Counting Principle, nPr, nCr
• Two Way Frequency Tables
• Expected Value
Geometry
• Areas of Rectangles, Triangles, Parallelograms, and Trapezoids discovery-based activity
• Investigating the effects on Perimeter, Area, and Volume when changing edge length
• Fermi Problem (estimation)
Fermi Problem
Science
• Solving Literal Equations
• Units and Dimensional Analysis
• Absolute vs Percent Error
• Linear, Exponential, and Logarithmic functions & rates of growth
• Scientific Notation and Sig Figs
• Variation
Standard Algebra Content Excluded
Factoring Quadratics &Polynomials
Rational Expressions
Matrices &Linear Systems
QL1: Content andApproach
Similar Content to a Standard Prealgebra class (but better)
Old and out of date New and hot!
Content• Patterns
• Integers
• Fractions
• Decimals
• Percent
• Graphing and Lines
Contextualized
Experiential/Activity-based
Less lecturing More of students doing math
Lots of Manipulatives
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Solving Word ProblemsEveryday
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Discovery-basedLearning
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Metacognition andAffective Domain
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Critical Thinking
Student Comments “This thing is hard, but I love it!”
“It seems like I’m learning the same stuff in a regular class, but I actually see how it’s useful.”
“I’m SOOOOO glad that PCC has finally realized that we are all individuals and that we learn differently.”
“This is more than math, this is real life!”
“F**K ME, I GOT IT!!!”