MichMATYC session on Reform in Michigan (October 6, 2012)

I’m using this post to share the presentation slides for the session “Reform, not Redesign, in Developmental and Gateway Math Courses” at the 2012 MichMATYC conference (Monroe County Community College) held on October 6, 2012.

Presentation: Reform not Redesign in Developmental and Gateway Math Courses

MLCS — Math Literacy Textbook (Almy & Foes)

Since the start of the New Life work in 2009, the most common question has normally been “so, this is cool stuff … what textbook can I use?”  I have talked here about the general interest among publishers, who are interested in developing books for the New Life courses (MLCS and Transitions).

I wanted to give a shout-out to Kathy Almy and Heather Foes, who are getting very close to having the first MLCS book published (by Pearson).  Kathy & Heather have worked incredibly hard to develop a textbook, one that combines the content of MLCS with a design that makes learning accessible for students and teaching easier for faculty (especially adjuncts).

Recently, Kathy shared an image of the cover for their text, which is at http://almydoesmath.blogspot.com/2012/09/mlcs-book-preliminary-cover.html 
[The final bound text might have a slightly different cover.]

Congratulations to KathyAlmy, Heather Foes, and the folks at Pearson for getting the first MLCS book ready to publish.

[This is not a paid endorsement; however, my college will be using this Math Lit textbook for our new Mathematical Literacy course next semester.]

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Webinar Recording Available — Reform in Dev Math (Treisman & Rotman)

On June 6, 2012, an AMATYC webinar was held on Issues in Implementing Reform in Developmental and Gateway Mathematics Uri Treisman and Jack Rotman; the web page http://www.amatyc.org/publications/webinars/index.html has links to view the 54 minute recording or to download it.

This webinar presented an overview of dimensions of reform (5 areas), some background on those, presented some choices in implementation, and reviewed some current reform efforts in mathematics (especially developmental).  Also included in the recording is the question and answer period based on participants’ questions.

The webinar was limited to AMATYC members, in terms of registration.  At this point, the recording is available as a professional resource to non-members as well.

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AMATYC 2012 Sessions about the New Life Model

The AMATYC conference this fall (Jacksonville, November 8 to 11) will include at least 5 sessions related to the New Life model, based on a search of the mini-program (http://www.amatyc.org/Events/conferences/2012Jacksonville/miniprogram2012.pdf).

Sessions on New Life work:

In addition, there is a workshop on the Quantway model (Saturday, 10:45 to 12:45) by faculty of Sinclair Community College (Ed Gallo, Kinga Oliver and James Willis).  This Quantway course is very similar to MLCS in content and intent … Quantway colleges have partnered with the Carnegie Foundation to implement a common course and form a community.

I am pleased to see 5 sessions on New Life work, including 3 by people who have implemented  a course.  If you are able to attend this year’s AMATYC conference, I hope you can fit one or more of these sessions in to your schedule.  [If you are not able to attend, some of the conference proceedings will be posted on the AMATYC website.]

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