The Right
Stuff Traveling Workshop Application
AMATYC has funding for the NSF CCLI grant, The Right Stuff,
to provide faculty with resources that will enable them to explore best
practices for college algebra. This award provides funds to construct,
deliver, and evaluate a strand of AMATYC Traveling Workshops that will assist
faculty who wish to explore best practices for their college algebra course.
The Traveling Workshops are tailored to meet the needs of the faculty
teaching college algebra course. These workshops may focus on appropriate
content, the use of technology, assessment strategies, the use of alternatives
to lecture as well as other ways to improve the students' achievement in and
attitudes toward mathematics. The guiding principles to be used in
designing the Traveling Workshops are found in the Beyond
Crossroads: Implementing Mathematics Standards in the First Two Years of
Colleges document
and the Mathematical Association of America's CRAFTY document "College Algebra
Guidelines" endorsed by the Committee on the
Undergraduate Program in Mathematics (CUPM).
The application for hosting an NSF-supported
Traveling Workshop to help your college algebra faculty is available at this
link as a PDF
or as a Word
document. For more details about
hosting such a college algebra Traveling Workshop, see The Right Stuff: Appropriate Mathematics for all Students Report
(PDF, 2 MB).
We are eager to add your College Algebra Traveling Workshop to our
list of Spring Activities! For more
information, contact Rob Kimball at rkimball@waketech.edu.
Currently Planned 2008 Activities
NCMATYC (
Robert Kimball will present on refocusing college algebra
NCSM (
What does refocused college algebra means to secondary
faculty and administrators?
Presented by Robert Kimball
MinnMATYC (
Robert Kimball, Invited Speaker
Refocused College Algebra
MMATYC (D. C.) —May 20
Mini-workshop in the morning
A hands-on implementation-oriented workshop
that afternoon
Maryland TYC math faculty will plan how to implement
the best practices in college algebra working within the
limitations of state mandates and issues related to
transferability.
2007 Activities
Two Traveling
Workshops were offered during 2007
Delta College,
Del Mar College,
Other Resources for “The Right Stuff” and College Algebra
Reform
This
project is funded in part by a grant from the
National Science Foundation; DUE 0632883