{"id":622,"date":"2016-09-23T15:40:48","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T15:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/grants\/?p=622"},"modified":"2016-09-23T15:40:48","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T15:40:48","slug":"augsburg-awarded-237851-to-collaborate-with-partner-disciplines-on-calculus-curriculum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/grants\/2016\/09\/23\/augsburg-awarded-237851-to-collaborate-with-partner-disciplines-on-calculus-curriculum\/","title":{"rendered":"Augsburg Awarded $237,851 to Collaborate with Partner Disciplines on Calculus Curriculum"},"content":{"rendered":"

Augsburg College has been awarded $237,851 over 5 years as part of a $2.6 million National Science Foundation grant to fund the project Collaborative Research: A National Consortium for Synergistic Undergraduate Mathematics via Multi-institutional Interdisciplinary Teaching Partnerships<\/em> (SUMMIT-P) led by Dr. Susan Ganter at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.\u00a0 Eleven colleges and universities, including Augsburg, will form a consortium to renew the lower division undergraduate mathematics curriculum based on research about the needs of partner disciplines. The project studies the role of interdisciplinary and inter-institutional faculty learning communities in building collaborations for meaningful curricular change. At each institution, mathematics and partner discipline faculty will collaborate to understand recommendations from the (prior) Curriculum Foundations (CF) project, determine how these recommendations can be used to effectively improve the content of affected courses, introduce modifications in pilot sections, work with a central evaluation team to measure the effectiveness of new approaches especially as pertains to students from underrepresented groups, offer workshops and support for instructors using these new curricula (locally, regionally, and nationally), and scale-up these new offerings within the consortium and through dissemination to additional campuses.<\/p>\n

The CF recommendations rest on two pillars: contextualizing problem solving and active learning, both of which align with Augsburg\u2019s curriculum and commitment to student learning.\u00a0 The Augsburg team, headed by Dr. Suzanne Dor\u00e9e, will work with science and economics\/business faculty to renew the 3-semester calculus sequence.\u00a0 They will increase the relevance and frequency of applications in the courses; adapt and develop materials to make the quantitative labs the primary focus of the courses; and examine the ordering of topics to better mesh with the timing needed by the partner disciplines. The team will also support mathematics review when needed in introductory courses in the partner disciplines and the existing calculus workshop that has successfully supported students from underrepresented groups in STEM, and will bolster the transition from pre-calculus to calculus. The Augsburg team includes Dr. Jody Sorensen and Dr. Pavel B\u011bl\u00edk, also from Mathematics & Statistics; Dr. Joan Kunz from Chemistry; and Dr. Stella Hofrenning from Economics.\u00a0 Drs. Dor\u00e9e and Hofrenning also serve on the national leadership team for the project where Dr. Hofrenning will lead multiple institutional collaborations with Business, Economics, and Social Science.<\/p>\n

Editor\u2019s Note:\u00a0This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant\u00a0No. 1625142.\u00a0Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Augsburg College has been awarded $237,851 over 5 years as part of a $2.6 million National Science Foundation grant to fund the project Collaborative Research: A National Consortium for Synergistic Undergraduate Mathematics via Multi-institutional Interdisciplinary Teaching Partnerships (SUMMIT-P) led by Dr. Susan Ganter at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.\u00a0 Eleven colleges and universities, including … Continue reading “Augsburg Awarded $237,851 to Collaborate with Partner Disciplines on Calculus Curriculum”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[29,8,11],"class_list":["post-622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","tag-doree","tag-grant","tag-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":623,"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions\/623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}