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* normal distributions
* normal distributions
* linear functions
* linear functions
One of the things I like is the social justice aspect - giving students an understanding of how mathematics fits into the larger picture.
Trying to teach some of the most foundational, most essential mathematical conceptual models available.


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Revision as of 09:49, 17 August 2016

Goals:

  • Teaching
  • iPython notebooks
  • Nice notebooks, re-usable material

Inspiration: https://github.com/ipython/ipython/wiki/A-gallery-of-interesting-IPython-Notebooks#engineering-education

CSC 142 Topics:

  • Procedural programming: methods
  • Procedural programming: parameters
  • Procedural programming: return values
  • Control structures: sequence
  • Control structures: if/else
  • Control structures: for
  • Control structures: while
  • File processing
  • Arrays
  • Introduction to objects

MATH 107 Topics:

  • units, percents, other essential math
  • graphical methods
  • intro to statistics
  • std dev
  • normal distributions
  • linear functions

One of the things I like is the social justice aspect - giving students an understanding of how mathematics fits into the larger picture.

Trying to teach some of the most foundational, most essential mathematical conceptual models available.