Electronic Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics

New Orleans, Louisiana, October 28-31, 2004

Paper S034

This is an electronic reprint, reproduced by permission of Pearson Education Inc. Originally appeared in the Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics, Edited by Joanne Foster, ISBN 0-321-43792-6, Copyright (C) 2006 by Pearson Education, Inc.


College Algebra Reform

Robert Mayes


Department of Mathematics
West Virginia University
P.O. Box 6310
Morgantown, WV 26506


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ABSTRACT

The Institute of Mathematics Learning at West Virginia University has restructured the College Algebra Course to include a focus on real-world modeling. We will outline the objectives of the program and report research on success and failures over the last two years.

Keyword(s): college algebra, modeling