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

New Orleans, Louisiana, March 12-15, 2009

Paper S047

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Redesigning Mathematics for the Twenty-first-century Classroom

Janice Epstein


Texas A&M University

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Jill Zaretsky


Texas A&M University

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ABSTRACT

To revamp the mathematics classroom, graded online video lectures are combined with algorithmic homework and classroom activities to increase student success in finite mathematics, a course with a historically low success rate. This format scales to all class sizes and many other freshman mathematics courses.

Keyword(s): finite mathematics