Employing Active Learning Strategies in Large Math Courses pt 1

The Math department teaches calculus on a large scale. In Fall 2015 for example, calculus was taught in 20 large lectures to 4500 students. These courses have been using active learning techniques for many years; in particular each course features twice-weekly small discussion sections (158 in total), and many of these are devoted to regular use of various active learning activities. Scott, professor and associate chair of the Math department, will discuss their typical approach to using active learning in such a course, and will discuss their recent incorporation of the research-based principles of the UBC and CU Science Education Initiatives in three large lectures of Calculus II last fall.

Facilitator: Scott Ahlgren