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With so much renewal, love (Happy V-day! 🔢 = 😍), and admiration (Happy Black History month!) in the air, we welcome you back to The Common Denominator, your bi-monthly look into all thing’s math and stats for higher education faculty.
As the semester continues to spring to life, we are back to bring some inspiration and insight into making this another successful semester. As always, we are grateful that you let us share some of your precious inbox space every other month. With that, we give you issue #5...
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In March, we will be featuring two new and exciting sessions on Pi Day. Please join Pearson authors and instructors, Michael Sullivan and George Woodbury, to celebrate and learn.
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Session #1:
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Date: March 14th, 2023, 1:00PM EST
Description: Pearson Author and Statistics Instructor Michael Sullivan will show Simulation and Randomization techniques that you can use to incorporate Simulation-Based Inference into your Introductory Statistics course. StatCrunch, Pearson’s data analysis tool, provides enabling tools to help you incorporate these techniques and Michael will share best practices that he’s used in his classroom.
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Michael Sullivan
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Session #2:
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Date: March 14th, 2023, 3:00PM EST
Description: Join George Woodbury, math instructor at College of the Sequoias as he discusses strategies for promoting student progression and achievement through effective development of the affective domain in collegiate math. George will share his thoughts on the intersection of these key skills with student persistence and success and examine activities and assignments that you can use to help students leverage these skills in their course work.
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George Woodbury
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March 16-18 | Denver, CO | Grand Hyatt Denver
Our agenda continues to take shape (e.g., new keynote presentation), and we are over the mountain (get it?!) to see you and share another amazing ICTCM experience with you. The keynote speakers for Saturday have been confirmed, so be sure to bookmark ICTCM.com to learn more as details continue to come together for next month’s gathering.
Register today ❯
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This month’s problem comes from the Bennett/Briggs title, Using and Understanding Math, 8th edition, © 2023:
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Check back next month for the answer!
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It was wonderful to connect with those of you that joined us in Toronto in November. We would love to hear from you about what you thought of last year’s conference, and what your biggest takeaway was.
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First, releasing this fall...Interactive Calculus! We have developed a survey and need your help in finalizing our product for its release. Give us 10 minutes and we’ll give you $10.
Second, data is the common language of the world. Author, Michael Sullivan, is collecting data through this survey to use as examples in future editions of his material. Please complete the following survey and contribute to a data set that will help future Introductory Stats students learn and practice.
Complete the survey ❯
Lastly, would you like to make an even greater impact on this newsletter? Answer a few quick questions and let us know.
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