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THE
RIGHTSTUFF
still music to your ears
Robert L Kimball JrKathleen Almy
S054 – Thursday – 1:50-2:40
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An AMATYC project that was funded, in part, by a grant from the National Science Foundation: DUE 0632883
Rob Kimball and Kathy Mowers, Co-PIs
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Planning Team: David Graser, Margie Hobbs, Jerry Kissick, John Peterson
Participants: Norma Agras, George Alexander, Stefan Baratto, Richelle Blair, Connie Buller, Dana Calland, Cathy Cantin. Cheryl Cleaves. Bruce Crauder, Jane Damaske, Anne Dudley, Marcial Echenique, Dan Fahringer, Rob Farinelli, Susan Ganter, Lawrence Gilligan, Mel Griffin, Jim Ham, Vernon Kays, Mike Martin, Beverly Michael, Jeff Morford, Kathy Rodgers, L. Jeannette Ward, Gary Whalen, Jo-Ann Williams, Frank Wilson, Chris Yarrish, Lisa Yocco
http://www.therightstuff.matyc.org/module0/Module0.htm
1. Ma and Pa Talk Mathematics: Reading graphs and modeling2. Generator Math: Linear modeling3. Super Snacks: Quadratic modeling4. Data Mining: Set theory and conditional probability5. Soap Bubbles, Cheesecake Factories, Cell Towers: Linear equations and Voronoi diagrams6. Hurricanes–This Will Blow You Away: Quadratic functions7. A Slice of Liver: Linear functions8. Bioequivalence – Give me the cheap drugs: Logarithms and exponents9. Crop Circles: Area and optimization10. Minimizing Distance: Geometry, modeling, and optimization11. What Happens If …: Problem solving and multiple representations of functions12. Looking Into The Future … Value: Linear and exponential functions13. Reading and Interpreting Graphs14. Limitations of Modeling: Introduction to the Sine Function15. Piecewise Functions16. Compound Interest: Linear functions17. Compound Interest: Power functions and Exponential18. Archimedes’ Law19. Understanding the Standard Deviation: Mean and standard deviation20. Boxes and Cylinders
http://therightstuff.matyc.org/RSmods2009
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Kathleen
Why you were looking for material
What you found (contextually-based material that engages students… yadda….)
What about the R S was good
What you did with it
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http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/pcast-engage-to-excel-final_2-25-12.pdf
PCAST (Engaging to Excel: Producing One Million Additional College Graduates with Degrees in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) slams mathematics community.
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In order to achieve this goal, we must enable an increasingly diverse cohort of students to acquire core mathematical concepts and basic mathematical reasoning. A solid foundation in mathematics is essential for successful STEM education, for this paves the way for flexibility in a changing workforce environment.
http://www.ams.org/policy/govnews/pcast-statement
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In order to achieve the president's goal of greatly increasing the number of well-prepared STEM graduates, heightened efforts need to be made to adjust the curricula of mathematics courses for STEM students so that the material effectively reflects the mathematics that arises in STEM fields
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Fueling Innovation and Discovery
The Mathematical Sciences in 2025
The National Academies
Press
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Kathleen
Talk about the piece-wise module from the right stuff
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Right Stuff material is intended to provide faculty with examples of how • to utilize technology, • use the rule of four, • use the modeling process, and • engage students in non-traditional problems.
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Ideas for new Right Stuff Modules
● Market Basket Analysis (Recommender Theory) – Big Data
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How Does Amazon Know What You Want?
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How Does Amazon Know What You Want?
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Ideas for new Right Stuff Modules
● Topology – Graph Theory – Big Data
Each red dot represents at least one student and is denoted by a POINT in the student layer. The student layer contains geographic as well as academic data about each of the 17,572 K-12 students.
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Queries Into Big Data
- Attribute Table
ID School Grade Street # Street FRL AG EOG
135233 East 3 132 Adam 0 0 4
324133 West 11 4234 Booker 0 1 3
324112 West 9 324 Carlton 1 0 3
241553 East 4 144 David 1 1 2
155001 South 6 23 Eden 1 1 1
242113 South 12 42 Frank 0 0 5
Grade<9 AND GRADE>5 AND (FRL=1 OR AG=1)
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Queries Into Big Data
- Visual Representations of Data
Median Income (ACS 2011)
VISUALLY
REPRESENTING
DATA
Density of K-12 Student Population
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Bayesian Statistics
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Right Stuff material can often provide faculty with the seed for an idea for their own project.
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Kathleen
How you took an idea from the R S and produced something for yourself