CCLI Adaptation and Implementation Type I

CCLI-A&I

Project Description

Goals & Objectives

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A. Goals and Objectives

The math department of CACC, Alexander City campus, is requesting funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) through the Course Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement Adaptation and Implementation (CCLI-A&I) program to improve undergraduate education in precalculus, calculus, chemistry, physics and pre-engineering. With the funds received under the proposed grant the mathematics faculty on the Alexander City campus of CACC will attain the following objectives:

1. Improve understanding and retention of material learned in math courses.

2. Increase retention of students majoring in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering (SM&E).

3. Remove some of the "dry and boring" aspects from mathematics courses.

4. Attract more students into careers in SM&E, especially among historically under-represented in these professions, such as women, minorities, and those from low income families.

To realize these objectives the math faculty has established the following goals :

1. To integrate into precalculus and calculus sequence exemplary educational materials, techniques, and practices, that have been proven to be effective, including laboratory activities, developed under previously funded NSF projects.

2. To establish a mathematics lab with the technology to facilitate these new materials, techniques, and practices.

3. To incorporate the technology of Mathcad and MATLAB software, collaborative learning techniques, active learning techniques into mathematics classes.

4. To develop a collection of simple, direcct, lab experiments from which students can quickly and easily obtain data to analyze and interpret using the math concepts currently under study.

5. To provide professional development to enable faculty to provide effective math instruction in a lab environment.

6. To find and incorporate, or develop, a collection of assessment tools and procedures that will expedite students journey through their prescribed math sequence.

7. Establishment of a tutoring center as part of the math lab.

8. Conduct a workshop during the summer to share our developments with area high school teachers and alabama community college teachers.

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