Dora Ahmadi and Kathy Lewis
Morehead State University
One of the
topics in this paper involves journal assignments in a general mathematics course. The course is
composed mostly of students who are not mathematics majors, and their purpose
for enrolling in the course is usually to satisfy the core mathematics
component for general education requirements. The journal entries sometimes
provide an opportunity for a student’s misconception about the class material
to be corrected before an exam. The journal entries also give insight into student
attitudes toward the subjects covered in class and toward mathematics in
general.This paper will also describe a course experience pairing statistics
and English. This pairing provided an interdisciplinary context for addressing
two major challenges facing today’s educators: innumeracy and illiteracy.
Students registered in the English course were registered in the mathematics
course but not all students in the mathematics course were taking the English
course. This situation lent itself to performance comparisons of the statistics
students taking English versus those not taking the English course. This paper
will give comparison results on test performance, course performance, and
conceptual understanding of selected statistical concepts.