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Course or Field Experience designed to meet the standard |
Example of Performance |
Assessment Procedure |
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| K1: The educator understands the concepts and relationships in
number systems and the uses that are made of real numbers in everyday life. |
MATH 100, College Algebra |
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MATH 320, Math for Elementary School Teachers |
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Homework, Quizzes, Exams, Chapter Review Cards, Reading Journal,
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EDEL 473, Math Methods |
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STAT 320, Elements of Statistics |
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| K2: The educator understands ways data can be displayed and described,
including the use of measures of central tendency and variation, fundamental
concepts of experimental and theoretical probability, and uses of statistics
and probability in everyday life. |
MATH 160 |
Students will make box plots with 5-number summaries for collections
of data such as exam scores; calculate probabilites in lotteries
and card games; understand margins of errors and confidence intervals from
data reported in the news. |
Homework, Quizzes, Exams, Group Projects |
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STAT 320 |
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| K3: The educator understands the appropriate use of various types
of reasoning, including inductive, deductive, spatial and proportional
and recognizes both valid and invalid forms of reasoning. |
MATH 320 |
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Homework, Quizzes, Exams, Chapter Review Cards, Reading Journal,
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STAT 320 |
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| K4: The educator understands both metric and customary measurement
and fundamental geometric concepts including shapes and their properties
and relationships. |
MATH 100 |
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MATH 160 |
Students will investigate the various places in nature where the Golden
Ratio arises, and its connection with the Fibonacci sequence. |
Homework, Quizzes, Exams, Group Projects |
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MATH 320 |
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Homework, Quizzes, Exams, Chapter Review Cards, Reading Journal,
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| K5: The educator knows how mathematics is used to model and solve everyday
life problems and to communicate about everyday life. |
MATH 100
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MATH 160
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Students will use a variety of algorithms for scheduling a collection
of tasks, such as constructing a new house. |
Homework, Quizzes, Exams, Group Projects |
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MATH 320 |
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Homework, Quizzes, Exams, Chapter Review Cards, Reading Journal,
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| P1: The educator solves problems using different strategies, verifies
and interprets results and generalizes solutions. |
MATH 160 |
Students study and compare different voting methods that can be used
in a democracy. |
Homework, Quizzes, Exams, Group Projects |
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MATH 320
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| P2: The educator summarizes, represents and interprets data in various
forms, including graphical, tabular and statistical. |
MATH 160 |
Students use graphing calculators to make histograms, box-plots and
linear regression lines for data. |
Homework, Quizzes, Exams, Group Projects |
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| P3: The educator performs basic operations with real numbers in various
modes using paper and pencil, using mental calculations, and using a calculator;
estimates the answer to a calculation; and judges the reasonableness of
a numerical solution to a problem. |
MATH 320 |
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Homework, Quizzes, Exams, Chapter Review Cards, Reading Journal,
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| P4: The educator analyzes both valid and invalid forms of reasoning
and uses various types of valid reasoning to make and refine conjectures
and construct logical arguments. |
MATH 320 |
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Homework, Quizzes, Exams, Chapter Review Cards, Reading Journal,
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| P5: The educator constructs symbolic representations of real-world
problems and manipulates these to solve such problems. |
MATH 100 |
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MATH 160 |
Students will use graph theory to analyze problems involving
routing and scheduling. |
Homework, Quizzes, Exams, Group Projects |
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| P6: The educator communicates with others about mathematical concepts,
processes, and symbols. |
MATH 320 |
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Homework, Quizzes, Exams, Chapter Review Cards, Reading Journal,
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