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Schulteis, Melinda S. – PRIMUS, 2013
Service-learning has been shown to have benefits for both students and faculty, however, it is quite rare in the mathematics classroom. At Concordia University Irvine we have established a relationship with the Village of Hope--a local non-profit organization designed to help homeless families transition to a self-sufficient status via temporary…
Descriptors: Service Learning, College Mathematics, Undergraduate Study, Mathematics Instruction
Zack, Maria; Crow, Greg – PRIMUS, 2013
Institutional research questions provide an excellent source of interesting problems for service-learning projects for undergraduates in mathematics. This paper discusses how this model has been implemented at Point Loma Nazarene University and provides both examples and practical details. (Contains 6 figures.)
Descriptors: Service Learning, Mathematics Instruction, College Mathematics, School Community Programs
Lucas, Adam R. – PRIMUS, 2012
"WeBWorK," an online homework system, can be be used to deliver daily reading questions to students. The author studied its use for this purpose with a lower division Introduction to Programming course and an upper division Probability and Statistics course. In the lower division course, "WeBWorK" significantly improved peer…
Descriptors: Homework, Student Attitudes, Active Learning, Grading
Weyhaupt, Adam G. – PRIMUS, 2012
We describe a non-statistics, data-based activity developed by the author for an interdisciplinary course on mathematics and politics that uses actual ballot data from the City of San Francisco, California. The assignment is appropriate for a general education audience and develops students' ability to work with data, improves their understanding…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Mathematics Instruction, Politics, Voting
Miller, Sheila; Helms, Josh – PRIMUS, 2010
We detail a student project that incorporates the story of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic, which, between the summer of 1918 and the spring of 1919, infected one-fifth to one-half of the world's population and killed more U.S. soldiers fighting in World War I than the war itself. The project uses Susceptible, Infected, Recovered, and Dead (SIRD)…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Communicable Diseases, Mathematics Instruction, Public Health
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