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Violeta Vasilevska; Carolyn Hamilton – PRIMUS, 2024
Math Girls Rock! is a year-long, two-tiered mathematics mentoring program that prepares female undergraduate mentors to facilitate high school girls' engagement in challenging mathematics concepts through a dynamic after-school program. In this article, we describe the distinct educational component of this program in which female faculty members…
Descriptors: Mentors, Females, Undergraduate Students, Mathematics Education
Marciniak, M. A. – PRIMUS, 2020
The values and benefits of introducing undergraduate research to the college curriculum are both recognized and advocated in the literature. Although the community college environment may not appear to be favorable for undergraduate research projects in STEM fields, a dynamic and visible group of students, who take their path extremely seriously,…
Descriptors: Student Research, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, STEM Education
McCune, David; McCune, Lori – PRIMUS, 2019
This article presents a project that is meant to deepen student understanding of what it would mean for one preference voting method to be "better" than another. In the project we show the students how to rigorously compare the methods of plurality and plurality with elimination, and we then allow them to compare two other voting methods…
Descriptors: Voting, Preferences, Student Attitudes, Evaluation Criteria
Carlisle, Sylvia – PRIMUS, 2020
Specifications grading is a version of mastery grading distinguished by giving students clear specifications that their work must meet, and grading most things pass/fail based on those specifications. Mastery grading systems can get quite elaborate, with hierarchies of objectives and various systems for rewriting and retesting. In this article I…
Descriptors: Grading, Standards, Mathematics Instruction, Calculus
Hanusch, Sarah – PRIMUS, 2020
A summative portfolio is a project completed at the end of the semester that gives a student an opportunity to look at a course as a whole. This study investigates whether collegiate mathematics students gain a deeper understanding of course material through the portfolio project, via an analysis of the students' work, and a survey of students'…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Alternative Assessment, Portfolio Assessment, Summative Evaluation
Branson, Mark – PRIMUS, 2019
Mathematics has a unique and powerful role to play in the teaching of social justice issues. There is substantial quantitative evidence for social injustice, but many citizens lack the quantitative skills to understand that evidence. A course in quantitative literacy is a unique opportunity to provide this quantitative understanding to a wide…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Social Problems, Social Justice, Interdisciplinary Approach
Karaali, Gizem; Khadjavi, Lily S. – PRIMUS, 2019
We provide context and motivation for an instructor to use real-life examples in the calculus classroom. To this end we describe two specific project ideas, one related to the devastating impact of methylmercury fungicide in a grain seed supply and the other to a catastrophic methane leak. By using calculus in contexts that have social justice…
Descriptors: Calculus, Mathematics Instruction, Social Justice, Interdisciplinary Approach
Rohde Poole, S. B. – PRIMUS, 2022
This paper is written to provide ideas and guide faculty who want to design a mathematical modeling course for undergraduate mathematics majors and minors. We discuss course goals, assignments, and projects that can be used to help students gain experience relevant for careers and mathematical modeling opportunities. The authors designed this…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Mathematics Instruction, Majors (Students), Mathematical Models
Evans, Riley; Friedman, Jane; McGrath, Lynn; Myers, Perla; Ruiz, Amanda – PRIMUS, 2018
Although the number of bachelor's degrees in the U.S. awarded to women has gone up, engagement of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) continues to be low. This paper presents a project-based learning program, informed by education research best practices, designed to provide research experiences to female students…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Females, Active Learning, Student Projects
Warner, Jared – PRIMUS, 2019
We describe a semester-long project for an introductory statistics class that studies the broken windows theory of policing and the related issues of race, policing, and criminal justice. The most impactful feature of the project is the data-collection phase, in which students attend and observe a public arraignment court session. This "Court…
Descriptors: Police, Race, Correctional Rehabilitation, Statistics
Gerhardt, Ira – PRIMUS, 2017
The recent introduction of a new course in mathematical modeling at Manhattan College has provided students with a valuable opportunity to gain practical experience utilizing tools in applying their mathematical abilities to a real-world problem. This paper describes the steps taken to create this class, from obtaining a real-world partner…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Models, Teaching Methods, Relevance (Education)
Tamulis, Andrius – PRIMUS, 2014
Albrecht Dürer is well known as a Renaissance artist, but his 1525 work, the "Underweysung der Messung," or "Manual on Measurement," also contains a significant amount of mathematics. This article outlines four projects inspired by parts of this work, with additional material coming from Staigmüller's 1891 "Dürer als…
Descriptors: Artists, Measurement, Mathematics, History
Kraut, Gertrud L. – PRIMUS, 2015
The inverted classroom allows more in-class time for inquiry-based learning and for working through more advanced problem-solving activities than does the traditional lecture class. The skills acquired in this learning environment offer benefits far beyond the statistics classroom. This paper discusses four ways that can make the inverted…
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction, Blended Learning, Educational Technology
Butler, Melanie – PRIMUS, 2013
Service-learning has the potential to change student attitudes toward a course and a subject. With this goal in mind, I have used service-learning in several courses, from introductory mathematics courses to courses for math majors, for several semesters. This article gives details on these projects as well as some ideas to extend these projects…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Educational Practices, Mathematics Education, Student Attitudes
Despeaux, Sloan Evans – PRIMUS, 2015
Oulipo (Ouvroir de Littérature potentielle, or Workshop on potential literature), an over 50-year old movement that began in France, seeks to apply mathematical constraints to literature and the arts. In this article, I will give a brief survey of this movement and how I have built a learning module based on it for my mathematics for the liberal…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, College Mathematics, Undergraduate Study, Teaching Methods
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