Using Weekly Laboratory Sessions to Stimulate Student Discussion

Miami Mathematics Conference September 26, 2009

Charlie Peltier
Saint Mary’s College
Notre Dame, IN

Documents:

The handout (includes abstract and outline of talk) (.doc format)

The Power-Point slides (.ppt format)

The criteria for team roles (.pdf format)

The description (for students ) from the Math 104 syllabus

Examples of activities from various courses (most in .pdf format)

Finite Mathematics (Math104) Activity 2 Fall 2009

Introduction to Statistics (Math 114) Activity 4 Spring 2009

Mathematical Programming (Math 438) Activity 13 Fall 2008 (this course runs with an activity each class, rather than one per week)

Principles of Operations Research (Math 251/Buad 427) Activity 3 Fall 2009

Geometry (Math 361) Activity 3 Fall 2009 (An example of a too-long activity)

Index of all activities for Calculus for Life Sciences (Math 115 - 116) Fall 2005- Spring 2006 (topic changes to statistics at mid-term Spring. I was still using the Journals at this time) (These are .doc format)

maintained by Charlie Peltier

created 9/28/2009