Introduction To Course

Math & More was developed in fulfillment of Boise State University's Educational Technology ET522 course requirements.

The course is a hybrid course developed for up to 20 students age 13-15 (primarily 8th grade). The main purpose is to offer prescriptive remediation and/or enrichment to the face-to-face instruction. This course will be available year-round. Ideally, each student will work 20-40 minutes weekly on this online portion of the course, but students who are unfamiliar with navigating this type of course may find they need to schedule additional time.

The course is set up in Moodle LMS. Although it took me awhile to get comfortable in the features, I found the most difficulty with trying to get Adobe Dreamweaver to create my pages the way I designed them (see storyboard). I modified my design, but will continue to modify the final project.

Standards

This course is designed with the Western Governor's Common Core outcome standards in mind. The National Governors Association for Best Practices (NGA Center) and the Council of Chief State School Officers collaborated with administrators, teachers, and experts to provide a "clear and consistent framework to prepare our children for college and the workforce."

Course Description and Objectives

This course is designed to encourage the development of mathematical problem-solving skills individually, within a group, and as a class. This course will also further develop students’ basic math skills in decimals and integers, algebraic equations and inequalities, exponents, factors, and fractions, ratios, rates, and proportions, percentages, and geometry.

The prescriptive nature of the course is to facilitate remediation or enrichment based on the diverse academic needs of the learners. The lessons will be presented in a sequential manner once the teacher opens up the lesson to the individual learners.

 
Grading Summary
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94-100 80-89 70-79 65-69

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What You Need to be Successful

  • Computer - PC or Mac with multimedia capabilitieis.
  • Software - Presentation, Word Processing, and Spreadsheet (can be open source).
  • Time Management - Deadlines approach quickly - don't wait until the last minute to get the job done!

 

Problem of the Week

In addition to assignments, quizzes and tests, students will develop math skills through the weekly enrichment activity, or Problem of the Week (POW). This problem will be due the last day of each week (normally Thursday). Each POW has four parts - the main problem and three exercises which further develop the strategy introduced in the main problem.

Course Modules

About Your Instructor

Mrs. Brimacomb

Stefanie Brimacomb is a multi-endorsed math, business, and computer teacher in a remote Idaho town where online learning is essential to provide students a competitive education.

Contact Information

e-mail:brimstef@citlink.net
cell/text:(208)413-3783