PRECALCULUS - Activities

Activities

Classroom activities intentionally focus on students' social-emotional development in addition to academic skills. Any liberal arts education ought to embed opportunities in the curriculum for students to practice the skills and understandings necessary to communicate, collaborate, and otherwise interact with their peers. Students will often work in pairs and groups to accomplish a shared goal. All topics that students confront with great depth and complexity will render possibilities to develop values, social-emotional awareness, and understandings; this course both creates and capitalizes on teachable moments.

Readings

Students work out of provided textbook.

Interactive/Collaborative Work

In-class board practice. Students work with each other or work with teacher to complete in class assignments.

Independent Work

Unit Activities to be completed independently or with instructor assistance at home, during advisories, or during time allotted in class.

Multimedia

YouTube, Khanacademy, Google and other online resources. There is a long term extra credit project involving 'A Brief History of Mathematics', a podcast series which explains the history of math through the biographies of select mathematicians.

Writing

The final part of the podcast project is a written assignment for students to delve deeper into an episode of their choice.

Speakers, Trips, other