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An Exciting Mathematical
Reasoning Course – Quantway™ AMATYC 11/2/2013
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The story is a familiar one: A high-school dropout and single mother works the supermarket late shift. Motivated to earn a four-year degree so she can have a better life for herself and her 4-year-old daughter, she enrolls in a community college after earning a GED. Three years later, she still hasn’t completed the sequence of three remedial math courses required before she can take college-level math. Defeated, she says, "I just couldn’t do it anymore.“ For this student and too many others, the dream stops here.
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Presentation Goals
Introduce you to:
the Quantway™ Initiative
the Quantway™ I course materials
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The Problem: Developmental Math
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60% of community
college students
60% of CC students taking the placement exam need at least 1 remedial course. Sinclair 80%
3-5 additional courses
The remedial college math path can be 3-5 courses Sinclair 5 courses
> More students drop out between courses than from an actual class
1 remedial math
pathway
Only one remedial math pathway, regardless of major
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Solution: Community College Pathways (CCP) program
CCP – an innovative, transformative strategy in undergraduate mathematics education.
Started in 2009 by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching with
+ Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
+ William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
+ Kresge Foundation
+ Carnegie Corporation of the New York
+ Lumina Foundation
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Community College Pathways (CCP) program
To develop and implement CCP program, the Carnegie Foundation formed a network of
• Community colleges
• Professional association
• Educational researchers
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Solution: New Mathematics Pathways
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Through college-level statistics for non-STEM majors requiring introductory level stats
“To-and-through”
non-STEM college-level
quantitative reasoning for
Associate of Arts majors
(AA)
Two 1-year pathways for elementary algebra students
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Seeding the Network
8 Community colleges
3 States (NY, OH, GA)
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Network Shared Aims
To improve mathematical literacy and quantitative reasoning in the non-STEM student population
To increase from 5% to 50% the number of nonSTEM students who achieve college math credit within one year of continuous enrollment
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SW1 SW 2
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QW1 QW2
Alg 1 Alg 2 College Math
College Math
Credit
Semester
1
Semester
2
Semester
3
College Math
Credit
College Math
Credit
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Quantway™ – 2 courses
Quantway™ I – (1st term) fulfils the requirement for students’ developmental mathematics sequence
Quantway™ II – (2nd term) results in college mathematics credit
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Goal of Quantway™
• To help students learn things that they can actually use in life--not so they can memorize it for a test and then forget it.
• Students use numerical reasoning for decision making, argumentation and sense making about real-world questions, problems and contexts of personal, social and global importance.
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The Roadmap to Success
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Create a new course that challenges students using
real world applications following these guiding
principles:
Student will struggle with important
mathematics
Make explicit connections to mathematical
concepts
Use deliberate practice by applying concepts
and procedures in order to solve problems
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Productive Struggle
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“Solving problems that are within reach and grappling with key mathematical ideas that are comprehensible but not yet well formed”
(Schmidt & Bjork, 1992)
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Fixed Mindset: “Being a 'math person' or not is
something about you that you really can't change. Some
people are good at math and other people aren't."
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The Course -Three Main Parts
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Productive Persistence
Classroom Lessons
Online Homework - MyQuantway
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Productive Persistence
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What is Productive Persistence?
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Productive Persistence
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We’re defining “productive persistence” as:
tenacity + good strategies.
To help more students successfully complete the math pathways, we want them to both persist in their studying and attendance (tenacity) and to do so efficiently and effectively (good strategies).
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Lessons
Each lesson begins with a rich problem that engages students’ thinking and requires productive struggle as a part of the learning process.
Lesson Themes: Citizenship
Medical Literacy
Personal Finance
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Quantway Learning Outcomes
Numerical Skills
Proportional Reasoning
Algebraic Reasoning
Reasoning with Functions
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Comparative Concepts
Algebraic Evaluation
Evaluate:
3x -5
when
x=4
Quantway™ Evaluation
The formula for the braking distance of a car is
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1. Let f = 0.8 and G = 0.05. Write a simplified form of the formula using these values for the two
variables. 2. How can you verify your predictions about the relationship between velocity and braking distance?
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Comparative Concepts
Linear Equations
Find the equation of the line passing through the points
(2,-4) and (-3,7).
Write the equation in
slope-intercept form.
Quantway™ Linear You want to have your own phone and
need to decide which option costs less. Note that the descriptions of these options are examples of verbal representations of the mathematical relationships.
• Per-Minute Pricing: There is a monthly fee of $15.99 plus $0.13 per minute.
• Unlimited Plan: The plan costs $39.99 per month. The phone is free and unlimited minutes of talk time are included, but a two-year contract is required.
Find linear models to help you decide.
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What is Average?
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Lesson 2.6
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Classroom Experience
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Balancing Blood Alcohol
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Lesson 3.6
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Classroom Experience
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MyQuantway – The Out-of-Class Experience
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Overview of the Platform and its Features
Online assessments with built in Productive Persistence - Making Connections to the Lessons - Developing Skills and Understanding - Making Connections to the Course - Preparing for the Next Lesson Powerful Gradebook Announcements Attachments and handouts Forums for discussion
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Time to Complete College Level Math Course: Quantway™ vs. Traditional Math
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Sinclair Assessment Specifics
Quantway™ I
Success rate: 67% (56% nationally) of students successfully completed(n=315)
Many students then moved on to our college-level course liberal-arts math course. This increased the number of AA students completing their math requirements at SCC by 60% over the previous year.
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Have you been Quantified?
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Q & A
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Contact Information
Sinclair Community College
Kinga Oliver [email protected]
Craig Birkemeier [email protected]
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