{"id":1498,"date":"2013-01-12T15:48:16","date_gmt":"2013-01-12T20:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.devmathrevival.net\/?p=1498"},"modified":"2013-01-12T15:48:16","modified_gmt":"2013-01-12T20:48:16","slug":"math-lit-lcc-mathematical-literacy-course-at-lansing-cc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devmathrevival.net\/?p=1498","title":{"rendered":"Math Lit LCC: Mathematical Literacy course at Lansing CC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My College is implementing a Mathematical Literacy course, beginning this semester.\u00a0\u00a0I am teaching one of the two sections, with a colleague (a project ACCCESS fellow) doing the other\u00a0class.\u00a0 In case this would be of interest, I am planning on writing a post most weeks about the experience of teaching a course that is so different from the traditional curriculum.<\/p>\n<p>As a curricular design issue, this Math Lit course (Math105) will serve as one of the math prerequisite options for 3 existing math courses for degrees (business math, art of geometry, and math &#8211; applications for living), and as a prerequisite option for a new statistics course the department is developing.\u00a0 Students will have a choice to either\u00a0take the traditional beginning algebra course or take this new Math Lit course.<\/p>\n<p>We will be using the &#8220;Math Lit&#8221; textbook by Kathy Almy and Heather Foes, in a class test format.\u00a0 Some of my weekly posts will relate to the use of this text, though I hope to talk more generally about mathematical literacy with a focus on the reasoning (algebraic and other) that the students will encounter<\/p>\n<p>Our course, and the Math Lit textbook, are true to the design in the New Life model for the course called Mathematical Literacy for College Students (MLCS).\u00a0 Although similar to the Quantway I course, the MLCS course is more flexible within the curriculum &#8230; we will have 4 math courses which follow our Math Lit course.\u00a0 Also, the MLCS content is a bit more aligned with the basic mathematical ideas and values among math faculty; this is not saying that MLCS is traditional &#8212; it is not.\u00a0 Rather, the observation is that more faculty will be able to be enthused about teaching MLCS, and MLCS can fit into our curriculum quite nicely.<\/p>\n<p>Our classes start on January 14, with 2 class sessions per week.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll post a &#8220;how did the start go&#8221; type of note after the class has met twice.\u00a0 I hope you find the posts on this course enjoyable and\/or helpful!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;Join Dev Math Revival on Facebook:<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/home.php#!\/pages\/DevMathRevival\/201095716578610\" show_faces=\"true\" width=\"450\" font=\"\"><\/fb:like><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My College is implementing a Mathematical Literacy course, beginning this semester.\u00a0\u00a0I am teaching one of the two sections, with a colleague (a project ACCCESS fellow) doing the other\u00a0class.\u00a0 In case this would be of interest, I am planning on writing a post most weeks about the experience of teaching a course that is so different [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematical-literacy-course"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1qjjK-oa","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devmathrevival.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devmathrevival.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devmathrevival.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devmathrevival.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devmathrevival.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1498"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.devmathrevival.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1500,"href":"https:\/\/www.devmathrevival.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions\/1500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devmathrevival.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devmathrevival.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devmathrevival.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}