Conference Session

Innovative Instructional Strategies

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Martha Allen, Georgia College & State University; Amy Kelley, Georgia College & State University

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

attitudes. Based on student opinion surveys and informal interviews,students have responded favorably to the interactive worksheets, modified homework, thescrambled proofs, collaborative assignments, and some of the writing activities. Based on testperformance, the definition quizzes and definition scrambles have been effective in improving thestudents’ basic linear algebra terminology.The modified lecture with activities format has evolved through the continuous process ofiterative course development. The current implementation is shaped, in part, by the authors’reflections on previous class activities, assignments, class examples, test results, student feedback,and peer reviews. Each time we have taught the class, we have changed the format