TARGET AUDIENCE: grades 7-12 teachers
MATH 807T: Using Mathematics to Understand our World (Class # 10187, Sec # 951) in Holdrege, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., June 3-7
This course will examine the mathematics underlying several socially-relevant questions from a variety of academic disciplines. Mathematical models of problems will be constructed and studied using a variety of topics and basic skills in algebra, functions, statistics and probability. Sources will include original documentation whenever possible (such as government data, reports and research papers) in order to provide a sense of the very real role that mathematics plays in society.
Dan Schaben, a teacher at Arapahoe High School and a Noyce Master Teacher at UNL, will be the lead instructor of the course.
More details at: http://go.unl.edu/nmssi