THE COLLEGE OF STATEN ISLAND

MATH CONFERENCE & FACULTY WORKSHOP

 JUNE 21, 10:00am – 3pm

 

 

“Improving Pedagogy and Student Performance in Gateway Courses in Mathematics”

 

 

Location:          Hilton Garden Inn

                        1100 South Avenue

                        Staten Island, NY

         AGENDA

10:00 to 10:30am                     Registration

                                                Juneberry Room

10:30 to 11:00am                     Opening remarks – David Podell, Provost

                                                Introduction to Conference - Aru Raychaudhuri, Chair

 

11:00 to 12:00pm                     Guest Speaker, Professor Geoffrey Akst

                                                “Mathematics at CUNY – How are we doing?”

 

12:00 to 1:00pm                       Lunch

 

LOCATION:              Juneberry Room        Britons Oak II            Britons Oak III

 

GROUPS:                   Mth123/130                 Mth020/030                 Mth102

                                    Mth121/221    

                                   

TIME:                        “Webworks”                “Developmental            “Weighted Voting

1:00                             Demonstration              Mathematics”               Systems” Talk

to                                 by Ilya Kofman by Randy Welch           by W. Pribitkin

1:30                                                                 of Pearson

                                                                        Addison Wesley

 

 

LOCATION:              Juneberry Room        Britons Oak II            Britons Oak III

 

GROUPS:                   Mth020/030                 Mth121/221                 Mth102

                                    Mth123/130                

 

TIME:                        “Calculator,                  “A Few Tricks              “Topics in Graph Theory”

1:30                             A Tool, Not                 With Multiplication        Talk by Ilya Kofman

To                                a  Dodge”                     Using Vedic Math”

2:00                             Talk by             Talk by P. Misra                                  

                                    JC Derderian               

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE COLLEGE OF STATEN ISLAND

MATH CONFERENCE & FACULTY WORKSHOP

 JUNE 21, 10:00am – 3pm

 

Title:     “Improving Pedagogy and Student Performance in Gateway Courses in Mathematics”

 

 

LOCATION:              Juneberry Room        Britons Oak II            Britons Oak III

 

GROUPS:                   Mth020/030                 Mth123/130                 Mth102—Mth 221/121

                                                                        2:00-2:30                   

TIME:                        My MathLab”            “MatLab Projects         Mth102 Curriculum

2:00                             Software                      for Precalculus”            Discussion

to                                 Presentation                  Talk by T. Schaefer      McTiernan/Pribitkin

3:00 pm                       by Fred Speers of                                

                                    Pearson Addison          2:30-3:00                    Mth121/221

                                    Wesley                         Curriculum                    Curriculum discussion  

                                                                        Discussion                    led by P. Misra            

                                                                        Mth123/130                 and S. Richard

                                                                        Discussion                                                                                                                                            led by  

                                                                        C. Lancellotti

 

If there is a topic that interests you feel free to move around.

 

All discussions must end promptly at 3:00p.m.