Conference Session

Techniques in Improving Mathematics Education in STEM Curricula

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John R. Reisel, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; Marissa Jablonski, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; Ethan V. Munson, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; Hossein Hosseini, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

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Mathematics

to UWM’s College of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Jablonski is focusing her dissertation on sustainable oxidation of textile wastewater and is working to create small-scale wastewater treatment units for cottage textile industries. She trained at the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) in Nagpur, India where she worked on biodegradation of azo dye intermediates. Jablonski served as Co-chair of UWM’s student chapter of Engineers Without Borders for two years since its inception in 2007 and continues to help design and implement water distribution projects in Guatemala. Jablonski was a 2008 recipient of the NSF Graduate Fellowship Honorable Mention, the 2008 Wisconsin Water Association

Conference Session

Techniques in Improving Mathematics Education in STEM Curricula

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yonghui Wang, Prairie View A&M University; Jian-ao Lian, Prairie View A&M University; Yonggao Yang, Prairie View A&M University

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Mathematics

AC 2012-3731: INTERACTIVE MATH LEARNING FOR STEM STUDENTSDr. Yonghui Wang, Prairie View A&M University Yonghui Wang received the B.S. degree in technical physics from Xidian University, Xi’an, China, in 1993, the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Beijing Polytechnic University, Beijing, China, in 1999, and the Ph.D. degree in computer engineering from Mississippi State University, Starkville, M.S., in 2003. From 1993 to 1996, he was an Engineer with the 41st Electrical Research Institute, Bengbu, China. From July 1999 to December 1999, he worked as an IT Specialist in IBM China, Beijing, China. From 2000 to 2003, he was a Research Assistant with the Visualization, Analysis, and Imaging Labora- tory

Conference Session

Using Applications and Projects in Teaching Mathematics

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julie Gainsburg, California State University, Northridge

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Mathematics

, contextualizedmethods. Nevertheless, people subscribe to cultural claims about the “hegemony of school-taught math over everyday practice” (p. 168)—the idea that the formal, general, algorithmicmathematics taught in schools should structure the way people resolve all quantitative problems,because it is superior to the irrational, situation-specific mathematics that people naturally inventand use. As a result, people feel guilty or inadequate for not using formal mathematics andsometimes resort to using it post hoc, to justify a solution they arrived at by informal means (forexample, for the benefit of researchers).Lave and other mathematical ethnographers14,15 studied “just plain folks” (JPFs)—peoplewithout advanced mathematical training—in settings that were

Conference Session

Using Applications and Projects in Teaching Mathematics

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David I. Spang, Burlington County College; Kathleen Spang, Middlesex Boro High School

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Mathematics

more than 25 years, teaching all levels of mathematics, including Advanced Placement, at Middlesex Boro High School in N.J. Spang earned her doctorate in mathematics education from the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers University, with a focus on how students learn mathematical ideas. Page 25.1100.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Real-World Applications of Mathematical and Scientific Principles in the Curriculum for College and Career SuccessAbstractWith a large expected need for scientists, engineers, and technologists it is increasingly critical

Conference Session

Using Computers, Software, and Writing to Improve Mathematical Understanding

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

N. Jean Hodges, Virginia Commonwealth University, Qatar

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Mathematics

Bloom‟s Taxonomy of the Cognitive Domain revised by Anderson in 2001) andwell serves the purposes of this research because design students must learn to evaluate clients‟needs and wants as well as to make judgments that will influence their creative products.Huitt goes on to relate critical thinking to the affective and macro/micro cognitive strategies butextends it to include behavioral strategies as well. (See Huitt‟s diagram, “Model of CriticalThinking & Its Modification,” and corresponding discussion in Appendix A.) This extensionenables him to suggest teaching strategies for developing critical thinking behaviors becauseeach component of the model must proceed successfully to complete critical thinking, and thesedifferent components