StatPrep Webinar with Jeremy Koziol and Greg Kent, Feb 15, 2019

We had a wonderful webinar on February 15, 2019, that focused on R-based activities developed by two our our summer 2018 StatPREP participants. Greg Kent (Yakima Valley College) presented an interactive activity for students focus on the topics: “Why is it important for samples to be random? In this activity, we use the Gettysburg Address to …

Intro Stats (Math& 146) in Washington State

Statistics instructors in Washington state held two video conferences (March 2 and 9, 2018) on content recommendations for Introduction to Statistics (Math& 146) developed by a working group of the Math Pathways to Completion Project. The takeaways are: Our community agrees we need more consistency across the colleges and the six areas in the recommendations are reasonable. Math& …

Publications

Below a publications highlighting our research. We are happy to provide copies of any of these articles upon request. Burn, H., & Mesa, V. (2017). Not Your Grandma’s Lecture: Interactive Lecture in Calculus I in the CSPCC Two-Year Cases. MathAMATYC Educator, 8(3), 24-29. Burn, H., White, N., & Mesa, V. (2016). Improving Calculus I in …

Current Projects

Our current projects are related and synergistic in focusing on state and national  curriculum in mathematics and quantitative methods courses for students completing associate's degrees or applied baccalaureate (AB) degrees. Transitioning Learners to Calculus in Community Colleges Transitioning Learners to Calculus in Community Colleges (TLC3) is a research project aimed at transforming institutional approaches to …