Each week you'll interact with your peers in several collaborations that will occur both in the classroom and online, and complete a series of activities and assignments before and after the group collaborations.
Math 12 a 4-unit college level course takes a full semester, you can expect to spend about 8-12 hours per week learning statistics.
If you are enrolled in Math 112 as well, Math 112 is a 2-unit course with the purpose of providing you with the support that you need to be successful in Math 12.
In this course, there are 7 modules that contain 37 units. Within each unit, there are assignments and collaboration components. Some of the Collaboration sessions include an assignment called a Preparation that should be done before the collaboration and then another assignment called an Exercise (or homework) to be done after.
It is important that you do Preparation assignments before your group Collaboration! And then try to work each Exercise assignment after the group Collaboration.
Collaboration sessions for this course are critical! In a Collaboration session, you will work with your group in class to complete the material. The Preparation and Excercise activities will be completed in the Realizeit courseware which can be accessed in canvas.
Online collaborations will be recorded and made available to me for review. I will then give a grade to your group based upon your group's responses and interaction.
If you miss a collaboration, please let your group and me know so that we can workout an alternative path for that particular unit.
Your participation is an important part of the success of this course, but we also recognize that you may have family and/or obligations, or that unexpected emergencies can occur. If you've reached a point where you can't meet a deadline, please contact me and your group members right away--we'll work together to make a path to success.
The Statway model is built on 4 key principles:
Student centered
Productive Struggle
Explicit Connection
Deliberate Practice
Student Centered
In this learning model, the focus of activity shifts from the teacher to the learner. The majority of your time will be spent on discussion, collaborative work, and engagement with other brains-on activities. Additionally, teaching and learning is tailored to fit the needs of small groups of students as you work through the activities and review prerequisite skills. Furthermore, this learning model employs a teacher- guided-discovery process that allows me to identify gaps in student understanding and invest time to remediate those gaps.
I will be with you every step of the way by providing weekly announcements to help you stay on track, personalized feedback a few times per week based on your group collaborations, live student drop-in hours and anything else you need to help you succeed in this course.
Productive Struggle
Productive struggle seeks to engage students in challenging learning opportunities designed to promote thinking about important mathematics concepts. Productive struggle causes students to explore as they develop strategies and their own thinking about the use of mathematics to investigate a question.
The ultimate goal of productive struggle is to encourage students to make meaning of mathematical content for themselves.
Explicit Connections
Making explicit connections helps reinforce earlier learning and builds a strong foundation for future understanding.
Explicit connections enable students to routinely ask themselves questions that constitute mature mathematical learning habits: how is this like something I already know, how is this related to other ideas or techniques that I have studied before, and what kinds of problems can I solve with this?
Deliberate Practice
Deliberate practice requires students to think about the approach they are using to solve the problems, why they are choosing that particular approach, and how the approach must be adapted for appropriate use in a new context or problem.
Often these require students to stretch their learning and to apply it in a new way.