Electronic Proceedings of the Twenty-fifth Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics

Boston, Massachusetts, March 21-24, 2013

Paper C041

This is an electronic reprint, reproduced by permission of Pearson Education Inc. Originally appeared in the Proceedings of the Twenty-fifth Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics, ISBN-10: 0133866726, Copyright (C) 2014 by Pearson Education, Inc.


Infusing Technology into a Variety of Math Courses

Ron Barnes


University of Houston-Downtown

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Linda Becerra


University of Houston-Downtown

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Nancy Leveille


University of Houston-Downtown

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ABSTRACT

This paper describes some of the approaches to infusing technology into a variety of math courses at our institution. The TI-73 and TI-84 calculators are utilized in our Math for Liberal Arts course in the study of the Math of Finance. In our Finite Math course, in addition to the topic Math of Finance, students are introduced to the use of the Internet to find and utilize free programs and applications to solve various problems involving matrices and linear programming. MyMathLab is employed in College Algebra to facilitate differentiated instruction. In our Math Education courses, the TI-73 calculator, MyMathLab, Web Assign, and Blackboard are used extensively to provide future teachers with tools for their own class management. Illustrative examples are included.

Keyword(s): TI-83, finite mathematics, teacher training, MyMathLab, Blackboard, WebAssign