MED 683
Assignment #5
Due Tuesday July 18

1. There have been discussions for many years on an approach to teaching mathematics called inquiry-based learning or IBL. A number of colleges and universities have adopted the approach in one or more courses that their mathematics majors are required to take. Please read the short description offered on the link below and take a look at their "Good Starter Activities" document. We'll discuss a few of these on Tuesday.

2. Culminating Work: I would like to wrap up the course by having you create classroom materials that will hopefully be of interest to your students as you are teaching a particular topic. This could take on a couple of forms. You might develop a series of lessons around a particular theme or topic that employs a problem-based approach. Or perhaps you'd like to pursue the development of three-act tasks that will allow for your students (or future students) to engage in problem generation on a periodic basis next year. I will work with you individually on this and support your work as needed. The goal should be 3 to 5 lessons depending on the task you are selecting. I would like to get this from you by Monday evening 7/24 so I can grade them and enter the course grades within the designated window. For Tuesday 7/18, please have a draft of your ideas and initial problems or tasks selected so you can share them with each other and gather feedback. We'll spend much of the time in the last class meetings working in this so I have the opportunity to provide feedback and support.

3. Lastly, I'd like to complete one more set of Exeter problems. These are a mix from Math 1 and Math 2.