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Abstracts for Session 6
Friday, 2:45pm

6A. Joe Kincaid, Peru State College, Peru, NE Using Technology to Help Teach Rigor
Teaching mathematical rigor is an important objective in our mathematics curriculum and must be considered whenever technology is placed in the hands of the student. This talk will describe experiences in a precalculus class where the TI-86 calculator was used to enhance teaching of mathematical rigor. Generally, the students are expected to have high technical expertise, but moderate to low technical expertise will be expected of the audience in the EXPO talk. The audience will not be expected to use the calculators during the talk, but should be able to follow the examples presented.
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6B. John Soptick, Brooks Spies, Don Haussler, Kansas City Kansas Community College, Kansas City, KS Mediated Learning - A Demonstration and Follow-up
This presentation will demonstrate on a computer screen an interactive computer-assisted approach to teach students various levels of mathematics. This program, produced by Academic Systems, Inc., was implemented in both on-campus and online courses (for students with Internet access) at KCKCC. Mediated learning, using both software and textbooks, can provide the solution to helping your students succeed in mathematics. Not only will they succeed, but they will come back for the next level. This method provides college-level, interactive multimedia mathematics course materials covering Math Essentials, Elementary Algebra, Intermediate Algebra, and College Algebra. Through overhead transparencies, we will provide you with our experiences from our first year's implementation of mediated learning. This session will show you how to make mathematics work for your students and for you.
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