Book Review – Becoming a Student-Ready College

Book Review – Becoming a Student-Ready College

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Becoming a Student-Ready College: A New Culture of Leadership for Student Success 1st Edition by Tia Brown McNair, Susan Albertine, Michelle Asha Cooper, Nicole McDonald, Thomas Major Jr. A speaker at an AB705 meeting I attended at Bakersfield College mentioned this book, and then an email from our college’s library mentioned that they had picked up a copy – so I had to give it a shot. The book, in my opinion, is more for college administrators than for faculty….

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New Blog Category – Book Corner

New Blog Category – Book Corner

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I intend to share reviews of the books I am reading on mathematics and teaching (& a few others as well) on my blog, using the “Book Corner” category. I have added the category to the menu at the top of the page, making it easy to find them all in one place. I’ll probably be starting by going back through some older books I have finished. Stay tuned …

Where Have I Been???

Where Have I Been???

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Hi! Remember me??? I traded in some of my overload units to take the spring semester off, and it ended up being a very busy time. I was wrapping up the videos and supplements for my newest textbook (a STEM focused intermediate algebra text) and the second edition of Interactive Statistics (which I work with Michael Sullivan on). Last week I started teaching a summer Intro Stats class, and I have begun to turn my attention to preparing for next…

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Math Mindsets at Hilton Head, SC

Math Mindsets at Hilton Head, SC

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Had a great time sharing my experiences with helping students to develop a growth mindset today. If you are looking for a quick entry to the subject, check out the following videos. Carol Dweck on Mindsets YouTube video – Dweck Jo Boaler on Math Mindsets YouTube video – Boaler I’ll be sharing more on Mindsets in the upcoming week.

2018 StatCrunch Student Contest

2018 StatCrunch Student Contest

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On my StatBlog I put together a post about this spring’s StatCrunch contest – check it out here. This is a fun contest for students to use what they are learning in your Intro Stats class and use a set of data to tell a story. There are cash prizes for the top three finishers. Link to the Contest YouTube Conference Announcement Please share with your students. You do not need to be using StatCrunch in your classes – Pearson…

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AMATYC Starts Tomorrow 

AMATYC Starts Tomorrow 

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Looking forward to attending sessions! With AB 705, I am looking at all of the different acceleration models. As always, I will also focus on student motivation, innovative classroom strategies, technology in the classroom, and statistics.  I will be using Twitter to report out as I go.  Also looking forward to catching up with some old friends and making some new friends. My college will have 9 instructors in attendance (home-field advantage) so this should be a fun, educational experience. 

AMATYC Starts Tomorrow 

AMATYC Starts Tomorrow 

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Looking forward to attending sessions! With AB 705, I am looking at all of the different acceleration models. As always, I will also focus on student motivation, innovative classroom strategies, technology in the classroom, and statistics.  I will be using Twitter to report out as I go.  Also looking forward to catching up with some old friends and making some new friends. My college will have 9 instructors in attendance (home-field advantage) so this should be a fun, educational experience. 

Learning Catalytics at #AMATYC

Learning Catalytics at #AMATYC

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It’s AMATYC week! This Thursday I will be co-presenting a commercial session (C4 – 1:40-2:55pm in Marina 3) with Diane Hollister. We will give an overview of how Learning Catalytics works, as well as how we use it in our classes. If you would like to start using student response systems in your class, this is the tool for you! I hope to see you there – George

Introducing Hypothesis Testing Through Confidence Intervals

Introducing Hypothesis Testing Through Confidence Intervals

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(Sorry for the lack of blogging here … I have two texts in production and it has really slowed me down …) Last week in my Statistics classes we learned to construct confidence intervals for a population proportion and a population mean. On the last day of the week I had students work on a project that contained a mixture of these types of confidence intervals, and then students had to extend their knowledge to use the interval to perform…

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