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

Orlando, Florida, March 16-19, 2006

Paper S103

This is an electronic reprint, reproduced by permission of Pearson Education Inc. Originally appeared in the Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics, Edited by Joanne Foster, ISBN 0-321-49160-2, Copyright (C) 2007 by Pearson Education, Inc.

Using Blackboard and the World Wide Web in a Quantitative Literacy Course

Cathleen M. Zucco-Teveloff

Trinity College
300 Summit Street
Hartford, CT 06106
USA
Phone: (860) 297-2291

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ABSTRACT

The author discusses how she used Blackboard Learning System (Release 6) and the World Wide Web to create interactive modules for a quantitative literacy course. These modules provided instruction for a wide range of topics including proportions, percents, descriptive statistics, probability, average rate of change, linear functions, and exponential functions.

Keyword(s): Internet, Blackboard