* Breakfast is sponsored by Lumen Learning.
** Lunch is sponsored by Winn-Dixie and snacks are sponsored by Macmillan Learning.

Engaging Math Students

Paula Risko - FSCJ

Do you need more tricks in your bag to help your students learn more math? Come to this presentation and discuss a few engagement techniques.

STH, Room M2101
PD 1669 / 6:00 p.m. - 6:50 p.m.

Building Capacity for Change

Alicia Byrd, Deborah Fontaine, Dianne Mcauliffe - FSCJ

Faculty involved in Achieving the Dream's Building Capacity for Change program will host an open panel dialogue, sharing possibilities for how FSCJ might foster greater equity within our classroom environments at FSCJ.

STH, Room M2105
PD 1672 / 6:00 p.m. - 6:50 p.m.

The Amazing and Astounding Central Binomial Coefficient

Scott Hochwald - UNF

From the beginning  knew it was destined for greatness because it was “central." Hence, it was not surprised when a multiple of itself appeared in an answer to a problem posed and solved by Euler. Unfortunately, it received no formal recognition as Euler’s answer until about 60 years later when that same multiple was called a Catalan Number. From there  went on to star in  proof that there is always a prime number between the positive integers and  is irrational. We’ll talk about these results and other related topics.

STH, Wilson Center Lakeside Room
PD 1685 / 6:00 p.m. - 6:50 p.m.

The ALEKS Advantage: Flexibility and Success!

Lamar Hester - McGraw-Hill

ALEKS provides a flexibility that allows instructors to build their course their way and support students’ learning by identifying real understanding as well as early detection of students’ struggles.

Participants are encouraged to bring a computer.

STH, Room M2226
PD 1690 / 6:00 p.m. - 6:50 p.m.

Student Panel on Strategies that Promote a Math Growth Mindset

Ruth Dellinger-Young - FSCJ

Come learn from our students themselves. A student panel will share teaching strategies with the audience that allows them to overcome their mathematical struggles and fears and successfully conquer their math courses!

STH, Virtual Presentation (in-person viewing available in Room M2220)
PD 1664 / 6:00 p.m. - 6:50 p.m.

Experiences with a Flipped Math Classroom

Maggie Byrns - Flagler College

Flipped classrooms are a natural fit among mathematics courses because they provide students with opportunities to engage deeply with content in a setting where they can seek help and interact with peers. Having taught various undergraduate classes using a flipped classroom model for several years, my experiences using this format will be discussed. Topics include getting started, video design, student perceptions, ensuring students watch videos, do’s and don’ts, and general recommendations for implementing a successful flipped classroom design for the mathematics classroom. I hope to promote a lively discussion in which participants can ask questions, share their own experiences, and leave with tools they can use to get started with their own flipped classroom.

STH, Virtual Presentation (in-person viewing available in Room M2101)
PD 1670 / 7:00 p.m. - 7:50 p.m.

Two Favorite Precalculus Problems

Rick Swenson - Retired Mathematics Educator

Come join retired mathematician Rick Swenson as he discusses two popular Precalculus word problems: perimeter and area of a rectangle and probability. Various teaching strategies and representations for these word problems will be given in order to obtain generalized solutions. Finally, participants will be shown how flash cards can be used to build student understanding of mathematical concepts.

STH, Room M2105
PD 1673 / 7:00 p.m. - 7:50 p.m.

Ten Play-based Approaches that Promote Content Mastery

Amy Baskin - FSCJ

Play-based teaching opens new possibilities for learners to engage in learning for the sake of learning rather than an extrinsically-motivated desire for high grades. While some educators gamify entire courses or sections of content, small strategies to infuse play are also highly effective. Games are practice, training, and exploration zones. Play engages social and cognitive function such as building mental models, identifying patterns, solving problems collaboratively, and forging emotional resonance. Academic capacity-building is the result; students develop memory consolidation of concepts, depth of knowledge, retrieval fluency, thinking dexterity, and enhanced critical analysis.

STH, Wilson Center Lakeside Room
PD 1686 / 7:00 p.m. - 7:50 p.m.

Do More with Desmos

Jeniah Jones - FSCJ

In this workshop, participants will explore ways to use Desmos Teacher activities in their class. We will take some time to play with Desmos and identify ways to integrate these pre-made activities into our classes and consider ways to create class activities from scratch.

Participants are encouraged to bring a computer.

STH, Virtual Presentation (in-person viewing available in Room M2210)
PD 1675 / 7:00 p.m. - 7:50 p.m.

Implementation of STEM in Secondary Mathematics Classrooms: Identification of Teachers' Beliefs

Onder Koklu - Florida Gulf Coast University

The purpose of this study was to investigate teachers’ beliefs about the implementation of STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics) approach in secondary (6-12 grades) mathematics classes and identify intervening belief aspects. A questionnaire was developed regarding practicing secondary level mathematics teachers’ beliefs about the implementation of STEM in mathematics classes. An online form of the questionnaire was created and sent to all secondary math teachers in two counties in the state of Florida. Eighty-two were received back from teachers. The results of factor analysis confirmed that items were distributed under five major aspects. Finally, the results of the data analysis disclosed that although most teachers believe that the implementation of STEM education is necessary, some have concerns about the effectiveness of the implementation because of shortages of materials, resources, and equipment needed for implementation of STEM. Another important finding is that teachers don’t have appropriate and sufficient knowledge for the implementation of STEM activities.

(Canceled) STH, Room M2101
PD 1671 / 9:00 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.

I Hate Math but I Want to be a Member of the Eye Care Team

Catherine Titus, Paula Risko - FSCJ

What kind of math is used in the ophthalmic personnel career field? How to handle students who hate math and still want to do this career? You will see real life applications that you can bring to your classroom. You will also see tips on how to handle math anxiety.

STH, Room M2105
PD 1658 / 9:00 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.

Project-Based Learning

Nancy Eschen, Amber Strickland - FSCJ

The aim of this presentation is to provide the Mathematics faculty of FSCJ with the knowledge and resources necessary to incorporate Project-Based Learning into their courses without sacrificing the necessary time needed to teach the core content of their course. In the Fall of 2021, we, Mathematics Professor Nancy Eschen and Academic Librarian Professor Amber Strickland, collaborated to develop a research project for the Honors section of College Algebra at the South Campus of FSCJ. This research project required students select and analyze a dataset relating to a topic of their choice and to collaborate with the librarian to analyze the scholarly discourse surrounding the topic and data. The project focused on the College Algebra topic of function applications. Students used technology (Excel) to find appropriate predictive function models (linear, quadratic, and exponential) for their data sets.

This project resulted in a project paper and class presentation. In this presentation, we plan to: provide an overview of the pedagogical method know as Project-Based Learning, present on how we developed the project for this course, discuss how the project was presented to the students, and discuss the outcomes of this project.

STH, Room M2108
PD 1678 / 9:00 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.

Get Ready MAT1033! An Initiative to Address Student Preparedness for Intermediate Algebra

Megan Cavanah, Kimberly Hess - Polk State College

In response to the learning loss associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, mathematics faculty at Polk State College created a bootcamp course to help students practice essential, prerequisite material before starting Intermediate Algebra. The course, which comes at no cost to students, includes videos, practice and self-assessments to help students work through material prior to starting the credit-bearing course. In this session, the designers and coordinators for Get Ready MAT 1033 will share the course design, the implementation and marketing strategies used to launch the course, as well as lessons learned. In addition to discussing student outcomes, participants will reflect on how this model could be used at their colleges.

STH, Virtual Presentation (in-person viewing available in Room M2206
PD 1687 / 9:00 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.

Using H5P to Create Interactive Content

Gabi Booth, Rachel Repyneck - Daytona State College

Are you thinking about designing or improving an online course? This presentation will introduce you to H5P, a free open-source tool that makes it easy to create rich, interactive, personalized content that can take your delivery of material up to the next level. In this session, get to know H5P, how to get started creating H5P content, and how to import it into the LMS. We will show examples of how H5P interactive videos are used in our Intermediate Algebra and Statistics courses.

Participants are encouraged to bring a computer.

STH, Room M2210
PD 1676 / 9:00 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.

Help Your Students Achieve More in Mathematics

Marwan Abu-Sawwa - FSCJ, Danielle Wolf - Macmillan Learning

Marwan Abu-Sawwa, professor of calculus and precalculus at Florida State College at Jacksonville, will demonstrate how Achieve has increased student performance in his courses. Together with Macmillan, he will share his experiences that include three years of classroom data using Achieve. Achieve redefines homework by offering guidance for every student with tutorial-style assessment, interactives (powered by Desmos), and easy-to-implement active learning resources with i-clicker integration help develop students’ conceptual understanding and critical thinking in real-world contexts. Macmillan Learning’s Achieve platform is available in courses including: liberal arts math, precalculus, and calculus. Please attend this session to learn more about class test opportunities for the spring 2022 semester.

Participants are encouraged to bring a computer.

STH, Room M2226
PD 1655 / 9:00 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.

Effect of a Method Course: Improving Prospective Elementary Teachers’ Abilities to Create Addition and Subtraction Word Problems

Onder Koklu – Florida Gulf Coast University

The purpose of this research is to explore how a method course improves prospective elementary teachers’ knowledge of various structures of addition and subtraction word problems. For this purpose, 55 prospective elementary teachers who were enrolled in a mathematics education method course were asked to pose addition and subtraction word problems before and after completion of the specific unit called “Developing Meanings for the Operations”. Problems created by participants were then analyzed and categorized in light of the theoretical frame. Repeated measure design as one of the quasi-experimental designs was used in this study to measure the effects of the instruction over time. One-way ANOVA techniques were applied for data analysis. The findings of this study suggested that although certain types of problems are extensively created by participants before starting the unit, participants created more diverse addition and subtraction word problems upon completion of the specific unit.

STH, Room M2101
PD 1679 / 10:00 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.

ECON and MATH: A Match Made in Heaven

Roman Cech - FSCJ

I will present examples of simple math applications to the analysis of basic economic processes. The audience will experience how economic growth is hard to gauge without logarithms, how profit maximization is confusing without derivatives and more.

STH, Room M2105
PD 1659 / 10:00 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.

Course Coordination in the Midst of COVID-19 and Thereafter

Carrie Grant, Adebukola Adeyemi, Kurt Sebastian – Flagler College

Course coordination describes coordination in the design, structure, and teaching of a course. COVID-19 has forced educators to reinvent themselves and their classrooms. Things are not back to “normal”, so coordinating our Introductory Statistics course has become even more important. In this presentation, we will share how our Statistics team continue to collaborate to create a learning environment that provides consistency to our students. Based on our experience, we will make recommendations regarding course coordination that will provide those in attendance ideas to use in their own institutions. Our discussion will include our course coordination model and the outcomes experienced.

STH, Room M2108
PD 1665 / 10:00 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.

Using Technology in the Mathematics Classroom

Lawana McCoy – Palm Beach State College

This presentation will introduce participants to apps and resources to use in the mathematics classroom. Students engage in learning via any mode of learning. The use of these resources will foster collaboration and build students' confidence using various approaches in math class.

STH, Room M2206
PD 1688 / 10:00 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.

Knewton Alta in STEM: A Mastery-Based Personalized Learning Platform

Angela Foster, Becky Moening - Wiley Education

Join Angie Foster and Dr. Becky Moening for a discussion of Knewton Alta, a mastery-based adaptive platform that provides students detailed answer explanations, just-in-time instruction, and remediation to prerequisite skills.

Participants are encouraged to bring a computer.

STH, Room M2210
PD 1677 / 10:00 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.

Adopting Flexible Courseware to Build a Better Course

Manuela Ambrosino, Katrice Taylor - Lumen Learning

Adopting Flexible Courseware to Build a Better Course: Aligning Your Learning Outcomes, Activities and Assessments with Lumen Learning’s Online Homework Manager (OHM). OHM is a homework engine and course building platform. OHM offers the combination of rich OER content and tremendous flexibility to customize course materials to fit your institutional and faculty needs. OHM is affordable, while providing students with the rigorous practice they need to quantitative subjects.

Participants are encouraged to bring a computer.

STH, Virtual Presentation (in-person viewing available in Room M2226
PD 1656 / 10:00 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.

Time Value of Money: The Fund-a-mentals of Financial Aid

Daniel Barkowitz - Valencia College

Students need help paying for college, and as part of their experience of financing their higher education expense, they need a solid understanding of the time value of money. In this session we will explore some fun ways to teach the fund-a-mentals of paying for college. We will make use of Excel, and some interesting problem sets to examine the impact of borrowing and investment choices today on the funding realities of tomorrow.

STH, Virtual Presentation (in-person viewing available in Room M2220)
PD 1680 / 10:00 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.

Faculty and Advising: A Discussion...

John Woodward - FSCJ

Come join fellow colleagues for an opportunity to discuss academic advising at FSCJ.

STH, Room M2101
PD 1682 / 1:00 p.m. - 1:50 p.m.

Two Favorite Precalculus Problems

Rick Swenson - Retired Mathematics Educator

Come join retired mathematician Rick Swenson as he discusses two popular Precalculus word problems: perimeter and area of a rectangle and probability. Various teaching strategies and representations for these word problems will be given in order to obtain generalized solutions. Finally, participants will be shown how flash cards can be used to build student understanding of mathematical concepts.

STH, Room M2105
PD 1673 / 1:00 p.m. - 1:50 p.m.

Accelerated Combo Classes Success Rates

Niki Goenaga, Angelica Cavallaro – Miami Dade College

STEM students have a significant number of courses that need to be completed before they can enter their Baccalaureate program of choice. In an effort to expedite the completion of all the courses required in Mathematics, especially those that arrive at college underprepared, Freshmen are enroll in combo courses that allow students to complete two math classes in one semester. Initially intended just to expedite completion of Math course, data shows students performing better in accelerated courses versus traditional courses and improved performance in subsequent Math courses.

STH, Room M2108
PD 1666 / 1:00 p.m. - 1:50 p.m.

Using Technology Applications to Check for Student Understanding

Janice Woodruff – Indian River State College

In this session, Association of College and University Educator (ACUE) credentialed faculty will share ideas on how to check for student understanding and discuss the importance or checking for understanding as part of formative assessment. Several technology tools will be shared. A laptop and smartphone are recommended for participation.

Participants are encouraged to bring a computer.

STH, Room M2226
PD 1657 / 1:00 p.m. - 1:50 p.m.

Principles of Adult Learning

Marcia Lamkin - Penn State University

Dr. Marcia Lamkin will present the research-based differences between pedagogy and andragogy. One principle states that adult learners need to see immediate applicability of their new-found knowledge. Participants will apply this principle by immediately creating an activity, quiz or assignment for their own use. Dr. Lamkin has been a public school teacher, principal and superintendent, as well as a professor of education. She earned her post-doc certification in Applied Behavior Analysis at Penn State University.

STH, Room M2101
PD 1684 / 2:00 p.m. - 2:50 p.m.

Leveraging myGradPlan to Engage Students in Using Tutoring Services

Youlanda Henry - FSCJ

This session will focus on how students can use the new myGradPlan platform to schedule campus-based tutoring and how faculty can use their faculty role to track students’ usage of LLC services.

STH, Room M2105
PD 1674 / 2:00 p.m. - 2:50 p.m.

Mathematics Pathway Guide

Gabi Booth - Daytona State College

The mathematics pathway is a sequence of mathematics courses needed to meet the general education requirements and to support a program of study. The School of Mathematics at Daytona State College has developed a Mathematics Pathway guide that will help students through the mathematics pathways to ensure that students choose the right pathway. This presentation will be about the DSC Mathematics Pathway guide and how the guide has helped students to select the right math courses.

STH, Room M2108
PD 1667 / 2:00 p.m. - 2:50 p.m.

A Guided Tour of my Favorite Open-Source Texts and YouTube Channels

Bill Meisel - FSCJ

Professor Meisel will discuss the open-source texts and notes that he uses in his classes and explain why he selected each one. He will finish off with his top 3 Math YouTube channels.

STH, Room M2206
PD 1689 / 2:00 p.m. - 2:50 p.m.

Link-Systems International, Inc.

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Wiley

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Lumen Learning

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Pearson

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