Advanced functions

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Advanced functions modeling

• 2004 Summer Workshop

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What is it?

• Advanced Functions and Modeling is a course to
  study functions and apply mathematical models, in
  such areas as consumer issues, public policy,
  scientific investigation, and recreation.

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What is it?

• The purpose is to provide students an opportunity
  to study modeling and applying functions. Home,
  work, recreation, consumer issues, public policy,
  and scientific investigations are just a few of
  the areas from which applications may be found.
  Many of the students enrolled in this course will
  be students who will see mathematics in their
  future only from their real world context.

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Who might take this course?

• This is meant to be a course for those students
  who traditionally do NOT take a 4th mathematics
  course in high school.
• This comprised 18-25 of the entering freshmen to
  the UNC system in 1999.

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Who might take this course?

• Your clientele may be students going into
  business, communications, nursing, or one of many
  other areas that do not have a tradition of
  requiring mathematics.

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What does this mean?

• This course should be an engaging course for
  students.
• This course should be a course which reviews
  algebra in context and allows students to RETAIN
  their mathematical skills as they move into
  college.

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What does this mean?

• The average student in this course may NOT like
  mathematics.
• The average student in this course may see no use
  for mathematics.

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What does this mean?

• This is NOT a Trigonometry course.
• This is NOT an Algebra III course.
• This is NOT a course that you already teach. It
  will require some changes in the way that you
  teach and in the way that you work with your
  students.

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What are our Goals?

• The average student in this course will leave
  this course with a better appreciation for the
  utility of mathematics.
• The average student in this course will have the
  opportunity to keep his/her algebra skills
  extant.

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What are our Goals?

• This course should be considered a success if
  your students are willing to take their first
  college mathematics course as soon as they enter
  college and not put it off.

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What are our Goals?

• This course will be a success if students are
  interested in taking another course in college
  that is mathematically or statistically oriented.

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What are our Goals?

• This course will be a success if the students and
  teachers have an enjoyable time working through
  the applications in the course. They should find
  it interesting and intriguing.

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Workshop Goals

• Review content material
• Cover different modules that can be used in the
  classroom.
• Cover different methods of teaching in this
  course.
• Cover alternative methods of assessing students
  and their work.

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AFM Contacts

• If you have any questions about your course or
  you need to contact someone about AFM, email
• info_at_nc-afm.org

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AFM Resources

• For the latest resources about AFM, updated
  modules and new lesson plans check the following
  websites
• http//www.dlt.ncssm.edu/afm/http//www.nc-afm.o
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