Impacting the Community through STEM Learning
Location
Virtual
Faculty Mentors
Dr. Heidi Eisenreich
Course Name
Math 2008
Session Type
Undergraduate Poster Presentation
Presentation Type and Release Option
Presentation (Open Access)
Start Date
14-4-2020 2:30 PM
Description
The service-learning project was a part of the larger community outreach program sponsored by COSM and STEM, called STEMfest. As part of our Math 2008 class we set up an interactive activity to introduce children to the science, math, engineering and technology-based fields. We used Georgia based mathematics standards to create appropriate questions related to statistics that we will also use as teachers. The objective was to gain familiarity with the standards writing appropriate grade-level questions related to content we’re learning about in our current mathematics course. At the event, we used the questions we created to ask students about the data collected. While children used critical thinking and different strategies to answer our questions, we differentiated in real time to help struggling students. The project was a way to tie our interest in teaching to the learning of children in the community outside the classroom.
Impacting the Community through STEM Learning
Virtual
The service-learning project was a part of the larger community outreach program sponsored by COSM and STEM, called STEMfest. As part of our Math 2008 class we set up an interactive activity to introduce children to the science, math, engineering and technology-based fields. We used Georgia based mathematics standards to create appropriate questions related to statistics that we will also use as teachers. The objective was to gain familiarity with the standards writing appropriate grade-level questions related to content we’re learning about in our current mathematics course. At the event, we used the questions we created to ask students about the data collected. While children used critical thinking and different strategies to answer our questions, we differentiated in real time to help struggling students. The project was a way to tie our interest in teaching to the learning of children in the community outside the classroom.
