In need of a new math course

[Jill]

Nevada is now requiring an additional math credit for all students.
We need a course for students who have completed Integrated 1 and 2
(equivalent to alg 1 geom and some of alg 2) but they aren't prepared
for the Integrated 3 course.

Does anyone have any ideas?

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[Abe Kohen]

One idea would be to get rid of Integrated 1 and 2 and replace it with
Algebra, Geometry, and Trigonometry.

Abe

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[Worldnet]

Jill wrote in message ...

>Nevada is now requiring an additional math credit for all students.

>Does anyone have any ideas?

Well, I'm not a teacher, but I'm studying math in college. The single most
helpful thing I learned is the cultural approach to math... the history of
math, how math ideas started, who were the people who made big changes to
it, what were those changes, that kind of thing. It doesn't need knowledge
of the actual mechanics of math, just an appreciation of the logic behind
it. It could be merged with a logic/set theory/matrix theory curriculum to
round it out. It's practice at reasoning rather than strict math, but it
forms a foundation for me to keep my interest in the subject. An old text
is called, "mathematics, a cultural approach" by Morris Kline, or its more
modern version, "Mathematics for the Non mathematician" but there's also
more modern books about the history of math.

Ange