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MATH - Works in Progress for Mathematics Education

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vicki V. May P.E., Dartmouth College; Petra Bonfert-Taylor, Dartmouth College

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as Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion at Thayer since 2020. In this role she plans, leads and oversees diversity and inclusion efforts at Thayer and in coordination with other organizations internal and external to Dartmouth. Thayer was recently recognized with the ASEE Silver Diversity Award for our progress in increasing diversity and inclusion of our program. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025BackgroundEvery student admitted to Dartmouth who wishes to, is capable of becoming an engineer. Somestudents who matriculate with an interest in engineering ultimately choose not to major inengineering for good reasons, such as discovering that another major better aligns with

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MATH - Hands-On Curriculum in Mathematics Education

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Seth Greendale, Whatcom Community College; Eric Davishahl, Whatcom Community College; Pat Burnett, Whatcom Community College; Tyler L Honeycutt, Whatcom Community College

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each of the labs into its engineering applications (used to motivate studentinquiry), the math concepts it contains (which are the primary outcome of the lab), and its status(finalized, needs minor revision, or needs major revision). As a work in progress paper, weanticipate continuing to tweak each of these labs based on student and peer feedback over thecoming years; however, “finalized” is used to refer to labs we would be comfortable giving toanother instructor to implement in their own class as is. We plan to make all of the labs andassociate curriculum publicly available online once they are finalized.Table 2. Summary of Math Labs for fall 2024 and winter 2025. Labs marked with an asteriskwere also implemented during winter 2024. Quarter

Conference Session

MATH - Works in Progress for Mathematics Education

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maureen Tang, Drexel University; Jennifer S Atchison, Drexel University

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. Tang, T. Galoyan, and S. Capps, “Board 34: Work in Progress: Simple, Scalable Interventions to Address Academic and Mental-Health Barriers in Engineering Undergraduates,” presented at the 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Jun. 2023. Accessed: Sep. 26, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://peer.asee.org/board-34-work-in- progress-simple-scalable-interventions-to-address-academic-and-mental-health-barriers-in- engineering-undergraduatesMath 116 First Midterm, Fall 2024Reflective Knowledge Inventory and Extra CreditStudents who scored below 50 can increase their score to a 51 by completing the followingthree parts. The completion times are estimates to help you plan. Try not to rush thisassignment and be nice to yourself

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Mathematics Division (MATH) Technical Session 3

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julia Spencer, University of Virginia; Megan Ryals, University of Virginia; Gianluca Guadagni, University of Virginia

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of lesson plans. While we had originally planned to do a full implementation of theIODE curriculum in Fall 2020, due to the pandemic and classes being online, we waited untilFall 2021, when classes resumed in person, to fully implement the new curriculum and collectdata for comparison to Fall 2019.In Fall of 2019, each class started with a lecture going over the topic for the day, followed bytime in class for students to complete problems by mimicking examples from the instructor hadjust worked. Sometimes, a small portion of the lecture would be dedicated to why the giventechnique worked. However, the focus was on what to do rather than why it worked.The IODE curriculum implemented in Fall 2021 covered largely the same topics as Fall 2019

Conference Session

MATH - Student Mindsets in Mathematics

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Melissa A Dagley, University of Central Florida; Rachid Ait Maalem Lahcen, University of Central Florida

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demandstrategies such as setting up milestones and actively coaching the students [21]. More facedchallenges are institutional constraints such as limited budgets and new ideas requiring extensiveplanning. Lastly, most PSI research focuses on psychology and behavior analysis of students,raising concerns about the generalizability of findings to other disciplines and diverse studentpopulations [21]. Accordingly, careful planning was done in Math Launch to benefit from PSIand address identified challenges. The customized PSI tenets in Math Launch pedagogy are:1. Preparation of written materials: ALEKS was set up so it provided an explanation page before a student attempted an exercise which enhanced student understanding and helped with improving self

Conference Session

Mathematics Division (MATH) Technical Session 1

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Krystal Corbett Cruse, Louisiana Tech University; Carl Boyet; Levi Savercool; Hylie Jane Holloway

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attendance of each SI session was58%. Figure 1. SS students attending and SI session.Two peer mentors in their second year were selected to lead the SS students through the SIsessions. The peer-mentors were chosen from a group of students who completed a pilot versionof the SS Program the previous year. Weekly meetings between the peer mentors and theinstructors of the math and engineering courses were used to plan the following week’s SIsessions according to need. Common session types included: ● HW - Informal open-ended sessions where students met on one floor at the University Library designed for study groups. Peer mentors were in the room to answer questions and guide the SS students when needed, but did not actively lead content

Conference Session

Mathematics Division (MATH) Technical Session 3

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Mixer, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Deirdre Donovan, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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STEM. Craftingmitigation plans aimed at student success should be research based and implemented to welcomeand benefit all students. Researchers have worked to identify predictors of STEM persistence,both before matriculation and after. A student’s level of academic success before matriculation isa strong predictor of STEM persistence. These predictors include standardized test scores andtaking calculus in high school [9], [10].Research has found that, after matriculation, a student’s likelihood to complete an undergraduatedegree was linked to a student’s level of academic and social integration. Tinto [11] definesacademic integration by a student's academic performance and their perception of their ownacademic experience. Therefore, it

Conference Session

Mathematics Division (MATH) Technical Session 1

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Juliana Martins Philot, Instituto Mauá de Tecnologia - Brazil; Barbara Lutaif Bianchini, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo - Brasil; Eloiza Gomes, Instituto Mauá de Tecnologia - Brazil; Gabriel Loureiro de Lima, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo - Brasil; Octavio Mattasoglio Neto Neto

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importance of planning, executing and evaluating subjects that are linked to the interestsand objectives of the courses in which these ones are being offered, reflecting on what skillswe want students to acquire and how these are used in their careers.Prado [4] also suggest that it is necessary to develop a more contextualized, consolidated andattractive course, applying multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary activities, using activemethodologies, articulating practice and theory with the support of software, a fact that is alsohighlighted in the document that in Brazil guides the organization of engineering programs,the National Curriculum Regulations for Engineering Education (DCN1) [13].Stewart, Larson, and Zandieh [7] emphasize the need of

Conference Session

Mathematics Division (MATH) Technical Session 2

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gianluca Guadagni, University of Virginia; Deepyaman Maiti, University of Virginia; Farzad Shafiei Dizaji

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classroominstruction before the pandemic.Studies have shown that online education had a specific impact on engineering students. In [3], authorsfound that a considerable number of students changed their short-term plans about scheduling courses infuture semesters. Additionally, a noteworthy portion of students expressed concerns about theeffectiveness of online instruction. STEM students had to spend more time on self-directed learning andincreased time on their coursework overall [4]. Research has shown that blended (or hybrid) learninggenerally leads to better learning outcomes for STEM courses compared to non-STEM courses.However, paradoxically, students enrolled in hybrid STEM courses often report lower levels ofsatisfaction and may not view the courses

Conference Session

Mathematics Division (MATH) Technical Session 3

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary E. Lockhart, Texas A&M University; Noor Hakim; Vainavi Chilukuri, Texas A&M University; Jason Champagne; Karen E. Rambo-Hernandez, Texas A&M University; Robin A.M. Hensel, West Virginia University

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study hasexamined how these variables differ in relation to students’ levels of mathematics proficiency.Thus, much knowledge is left to be gained.Present StudyThe current study is a part of a larger, grant-funded study focused on cultivating InclusiveProfessional Engineering Identities within engineering majors. Participants in the study werefrom a large, R1 university and were all first-year students planning to major in engineering orcomputer science. The university divided the students into three different engineering tracks fortheir first year, representative of their level of mathematics preparation upon college entrancebased upon their mathematics achievement and coursework in high school. Students onEngineering Track 1 were deemed to be

Conference Session

Mathematics Division (MATH) Technical Session 2

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hui Ma, University of Virginia

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grading approach, the author faced many obstacles andchallenges, which required extra thought and planning for the future semesters. For instance,many students procrastinated and only came for reassessments at the end of the semester,causing long lines outside the office during office hours. This was a heavy burden for theinstructor and left insufficient time for providing individualized feedback, which was the purposeof the office hour reassessments. The unlimited number of attempts did not sufficiently motivatestudents to perform better on their first tries. It also generated an excessive amount of grading.The author needs to reevaluate the number of reassessments allowed and encourage students toreflect and review before

Conference Session

Mathematics Division (MATH) Technical Session 3

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Meiqin Li, University of Virginia; Stacie Pisano, University of Virginia; Jennifer Felder Marley, University of Virginia; Anne M Fernando, University of Virginia; Lindsay Wheeler, University of Virginia

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interventions designed to improve student persistence across all student groups. Perhapsthe most relevant finding in support of the research discussed in this paper is that increasing thefrequency of asking students to retrieve precalculus skills improves their retention acrosssubsequent semesters, better preparing them for courses later in their plans of study and tocomplete their engineering degrees [8]. It should be noted that while that study investigated thefrequency of retrieval in a precalculus course, it follows that incorporating space retrieval withinlater mathematics courses would benefit students.Considering the impact of calculus courses on retention and persistence within engineeringprograms, there is a clear need for intervention

Conference Session

Mathematics Division (MATH) Technical Session 2

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Olivia Ryan, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Susan Sajadi, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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)‬ ‭ onsiders pre-math-ready engineering students' outlook on their place in engineering‬ C ‭Transition‬ ‭Self‬ ‭related to their perceived identity and sense of belonging in engineering as they‬ ‭into‬ ‭transition into the major (ex: plans for their future career)‬ ‭Engineering‬ ‭ efers to the help that pre-math-ready engineering students receive in engineering‬ R ‭(identity)‬ ‭Support‬ ‭related to identity formation as they transition into the major (ex: affinity groups)‬ ‭Describes the strategies pre-math-ready engineering students use to develop their‬

Conference Session

Mathematics Division (MATH) Technical Session 2

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alberth Alvarado, Universidad Galileo; Jose Roberto Portillo, Universidad Galileo

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those students that,despite completing MATH 101 satisfactorily, they did not approve MATH 201. Among them,we can mention: (i) the violation of academic integrity when completing the activities in MATH101, (ii) a student may require more time and additional practice than the one provided byMATH 101 to grasp a concept, and (iii) the lack of motivation and engagement, among others.Further study is required to examine these peculiar cases. Constructing a predictive model is partof our future research plan; this will provide us with more insights regarding the probability ofsuccess in MATH 201 after a student has completed MATH 101.The diagnostic test segmentation into the four areas of MATH 101 allows us to explore furtherand establish its impact

Conference Session

MATH - Student Mindsets in Mathematics

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thiwanka Nethali Fernando, University of Virginia; Meiqin Li, University of Virginia

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