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Pat Riley – Hopkinsville
Community College
Vs. Math
Austin
Two pound
14 inch diameter
-Enough dough
for a dozen
Breakfast Taco
Challenge
Six pounds
¾ each
-Adam finished
in Top 10%
San Antonio
Big Lou 42
42 inch pizza
-What is the
area?
-How many Papa
John’s pizzas?
10″
12″
14″
16″
20″
37″
42″
CHEESE
$8.09
$9.49
$12.49
$14.09
$18.09
$41.09
$51.09
1
TOPPING
$8.89
$10.49
$14.09
$16.09
$20.09
$46.09
$56.09
2
TOPPING
$9.49
$11.49
$15.09
$17.39
$22.09
$51.09
$61.09
3
TOPPING
$10.39
$12.49
$16.39
$19.09
$24.09
$56.09
$66.09
4
TOPPING
$11.49
$13.49
$17.49
$20.39
$26.09
$61.09
$71.09
SUPER
TOPPING
$12.09
$14.49
$19.09
$22.09
$27.29
$71.09
$81.09
VEGGIE
$12.09
$14.49
$19.09
$22.09
$27.29
$71.09
$81.09
WHITE
PIZZA
(Olive
Oil,
Mozzerell
a, Fresh
Tomatoe
s&
Italian
Seasonin
g)
$9.89
$11.69
$14.69
$15.89
$19.89
$46.09
$56.09
$9.49
$11.49
$15.09
$17.89
$22.09
$66.09
$71.09
BBQ
PIZZA
(Two
kinds of
cheese
with
home
made
Atlanta
Unit Conversions
Results?
Boulder
50 Wings in
30 minutes
-What is the eating
speed per wing?
-Wings per minute?
Failed Challenge
Calculus – Rate
of Eating
Ann Arbor
4 burger options
6 cheeses
9 toppings
12 condiments
As calculated by a
University Of
Michigan student
As also calculated by
dozens of Hopkinsville
Community College
students
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Scott Bain– Hopkinsville
Community College
What is a tribble?
A cute, soothing alien fur-ball
They are born pregnant
Don’t like Klingons
"There must be thousands of them.“
"Hundreds of thousands.”
"1,771,561. That's assuming one tribble, multiplying with an average litter of
ten, producing a new generation every twelve hours over a period of three
days.“
"Well, there must be
thousands of them by
now!”
"Hundreds of thousands.“
"One million, seven hundred
seventy-one thousand, five
hundred sixty-one. That's
starting with one tribble
with an average litter of
ten every twelve hours.
After three days –“
"Thank... you."
 One tribble produces
a litter of ten
 Six times in three days
 11^6 = 1,771,561
Mr. Spock was correct
Let’s look at this step-by-step
We start with one tribble
It will give birth to ten tribbles after 12 hours
So we have 1 + 10 = 11 tribbles
Those 11 tribbles give birth to 110 tribbles
11 + 110 = 121
Those 121 tribbles give birth to 1,210 tribbles
121 + 1,210 = 1,331
Those 1,331 tribbles give birth to 13,310 tribbles
1,331 + 13,310 = 14,641
Those 14,641 tribbles give birth to 146,410 tribbles
14,641 + 146,410 = 161,051
Those 161,051 tribbles give birth to 1,610,510 tribbles
161,051 + 1,610,510 = 1,771,561
What next?
How big is a tribble?
How many tribbles would it take to fill the room?
How long would it take to breed that many tribbles?
Thank you!
All screencaps from trekcore.com
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Hawkes vs. MyMathLab
Sharon (Sharie) Davis
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
(Madisonville Community College)
Using Pearson’s MyMathLab
since 2009
Text for MAT 55,65,85:
Prealgebra and Introductory Algebra by
Elayn Martin-Gay
Fall 2015
Piloted Hawkes Learning Systems in
my Muhlenberg Campus section of
MAT 55
26 enrolled
Advantages of
Hawkes
• Hawkes has
developed
curriculum for
MAT 55,65, and
85 based on
KCTCS
Advantages of
Hawkes
• Representative
came to campus
for first day of
class
• Quick answers to
technical support
Advantages of
Hawkes
• Can be opened in
any browser
including tablets
Advantages of
Hawkes
• Students can
work offline
• Simple
presentation of
material
Advantages of
Hawkes
Advantages of
Hawkes
Advantages of
Hawkes
Advantages of
Hawkes
Advantages of Hawkes
• Accounts do NOT expire
• Approximately half of
my class finished at
least a week early
Advantages of Hawkes
• Fall 2014 MAT55: 73%
success rate with an
concurrent MT 50 2hr
workshop
• Spring MAT 65: 5 out of
11 made 100% on the
first exam
has to make the request.)
The Ask My Instructor button sends
message to instructor email. (In
Hawkes, you must be logged into
Hawkes account to see messages.)
Advantages of MyMathLab
• Easier for instructors to
edit and create
assignments
• Overall, more user
friendly for instructors
• Choice of textbooks
Katrina Florea and Patricia
Fouse are also piloting
Hawkes in the MCC Math
Emporium Lab for MAT 55
and 65
Several students who had
previously failed MAT 55
passed with Hawkes
• Cost of Hawkes for MAT
55,65,85 (includes hard
textbook) $143
• Cost of MyMathLab
access code for
55,65,85 with Video
Organizer: $174
• Need more data
• MCC faculty who have
tried Hawkes have a
positive impression
sharon.davis@kctcs.edu
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Memory Techniques
 By: April Joy Spears
Sand paper roughest
Say it & Write it 3 times
The more senses you use while
learning/studying, the more concrete the
memory becomes.
Technique 1
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Colored Paper &
Pen
Yellow/Green Paper
Green or Purple Pen
When you get used to them, change it
up.
Technique 2
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Burn your own
voice…
Record your voice
reading/explaining your notes.
Then listen to it while you sleep.
Technique 3
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Notes in pillowcase
Don’t if light sleeper.
Do this especially if preparing for test!
Technique 4
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Temperament in…
MUST equal temperament out...
From Bill Phelps’s presentation…
Note
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More breaks/Shorter
Study times
Learn best; 1st and last things
you look at!
60 minutes
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Technique 5
20
5
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Put your info to
music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=9mEOnwr87xw
Tell the story about my brother and
David. Also, tell about one of my
students.
Technique 6
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Juggling/Movement
Incorporates the sense of
movement/touch.
During test; use 2 small rubber balls.
Technique 7
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1) Exercise
Increases blood flow & oxygen to
brain!
2) Review ASAP
You forget 30% after 2 hours, 50% after 1
day, & 90% after 30 days!!!
3) Study in a variety of
places
This prevents ‘stage fright’.
NOTES
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Something pleasant
to suck on!
While studying & during test.
This goes along with temperament in
must equal temperament out…
What about test anxiety?
Technique 8
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Classical Music
Have it playing softly in
background…
~30 before a test or difficult class, play it
louder in background. It increases your
ability to understand and retain!
Technique 9
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Rosemary
Don’t use the spice; use the
leaves or oil!
Use while in class and while studying and
during the test!
Technique 10
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What was it that I asked you to write with
your finger on the sandpaper?
What did I ask you to write on the
colored paper with the colored pen?
Questions?
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Preface
Broaden the scope of discussion on
mathematics curriculum.
Along with the list of competencies
that focuses on a few parts of
mathematics …
… include discussions of reasoning.
Do not list reasoning; let reasoning
transcend it.
Exerpts from
The Melancholy
of
Anatomy
By
Wendell Berry
Do people who believe in the
intrinsic worth of the world and its
creatures
have the same knowledge as
as people who recognize only the
market value or market segments?
We need to recognize the
formlessness inherent in analytic
science that divides entities into ever
smaller parts.
I recognize the possibility of useful
knowledge, but also the narrowness
of its application.
I see truth in it in a sense, but the
truth is small and far from complete.
We may know anatomy down to the
atoms,
yet we believe in loving our children
and accept the obligation to instruct
them
as whole persons
to preserve their wholeness, or
health.
We cannot transfer this obligation to
the medical industry, not even for
the sake of a cure.
To the medical industry cures are
extractable, marketable products.
This sense of cure is not healing. To
heal is to make whole, perhaps not
definable or handily billable.
Industrialized business no longer
recognizes the environment or the
people as a whole,
but as a source of extractable
products, “efficiently” shedding any
other concern.
The living world is treated as dead
matter;
its worth determined exclusively by
the marketplace.
John Crowe Ransom wrote,
“You may dissociate the elements of
experience and exploit them
separately.
“But then at best you go on a
schedule of small experiences, taking
them in turn.
The theory that excellence lies in the
perfection of the single function,
and society should demand that its
members be hard specialists,
assumes that there is no particular
harm in missing something.
Our minds work best at a scale
benign and harmless to a great
extent and without catastrophic
surprises.
This does not excite us!
We want a revolution: industrial,
technological, automotive, antibiotic,
sexual, genomic, etc.
Each revolution has something to
sell,
either to the people or the
government,
which they must “buy”.
The Industrial Revolution began
with two goals:
first, replace people with machines;
second, market products – regardless
of usefulness – for maximum profit,
We have formed our present life –
intellectual and economic – on
specialization, professionalism, and
competition.
Certified smart people solve our
problems for us by analysis,
dividing wholes into smaller parts.
The capitalism of fear, weakness,
ignorance, bloodthirst, and disease is
certainly financial.
And it has advantages.
But criticism does not deal in
categorical approval and
condemnation.
Valid criticism attempts a just
description of our condition. If
criticism involves computation, then
it aims at a full accounting and an
honest net result.
If we hope to live sensibly, correcting
mistakes that need correcting, we
need a valid general criticism.
A valid general criticism would
measure work against its context.
The health of the context – the body,
the community, the ecosystem –
would reveal the health of the work.
Measure our curriculum guide – a
list of competencies, a few parts of a
whole discipline - tampered with
every time the system changes its
goals – with the student body whose
transfer rate to four year colleges
decreased by 33% in the last few
years.
Scared for health, afraid of death,
bored, dissatisfied, vengeful,
ignorant, and gullible – these are the
qualities of ideal consumers.
Can we imagine any education that
would turn passive consumers into
active and informed critics, people
capable of using their minds in their
own defense.
It will not be the purely technical
education-for-employment
Reasoning failed to make the list.
Reasoning, a process of drawing
conclusions on the basis of evidence
or assumptions.
Mathematical reasoning takes many
forms: justification, deductive proofs,
and inductive inference, especially as
found in the scientific method.
None of these made the list.
Problem solving and proof are not
possible without reasoning.
Both are avenues through which
students develop mathematical
reasoning.
These did not make the list of
competencies.
Let us take every opportunity to
have a comparative criticism of the
guides to building the math
curriculum:
(a) a list of
competencies
or
(b) a devotion to
reasoning
or
(c) some other idea
Best wishes.
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 Me- I need the whole course done. I just started the
class. The homework and quizzes are thru mymathlab.
The midterm and final are both thru mathlab to but the
final is proctored at a assessment center. The midterm
opens on march 6th and the final starts on may 4th.
Can you guys do this for me?
 Kelly- Yes, we can handle all that and teach you about
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 Me- That sounds great! I havent heard of procu. Is that
a program or something? I dont think they use that.
They want me to show up to an assesment center on
campus and they open up the final for me to take.
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 Me- Thats alot of cash for me and im worried about the
proctored final. How can you guarantee that you can
take the final? I dont want to end up failing the final
becuase it is proctored.
 Kelly- We guarantee that it will work or your money back
as long as it's done through proctoru.com
 Me- I checked with the teacher and they do not use
proctoru. They said i will need to schedule a time at the
assessment center on campus. I have to take an id.
Kelly- Can you find out more about the software they are going to
use , if any to prevent cheating? We've had success in testing
centers but if it is a one on one thing with you and a proctor, it might
be an issue.
We can definitely complete the rest of the course aside from those
items at a discounted rate.
 Me- I know they use something called a lockdown
browser. A friend told me that its basically a small
computer lab they dont let you bring much in so it isnt
really one on one.
 Kelly- We can try to make it happen but in this case
there is no guarantee for success
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