Basic Skills for Future Nursing Students Mathematics

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Basic Skills for Future Nursing
StudentsMathematics Intensive
Pre-Nursing/Health Bridge Program

• Strengthening Student Success Conference
• October 4, 2007
• Justine Wong, Mathematics Educator
• JustineWong2000_at_aol.com
• Lyssette Trejo, Mt. San Antonio College
• ltrejo_at_mtsac.edu

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Mount Everest by Kevin Floyd 1987
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Setting a Personal Learning Goal

• This session will be
• valuable to me if

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Welcome House keeping

• Please remember to turn off cell phones, pagers,
  and other alarms
• Observations and experiences
• Description
• Quick poll
• Possible audience sharing
• Thank you

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High School Mathematics Teachers

• 22,000 increase to a total of 134,000 between
  1990 and 2000
• 90 of the teachers who were assigned to teach
  high school mathematics classes were certified to
  teach mathematics in 1990
• 86 in 2000

(Blank Langesen, 2001)
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Middle School Mathematics Teachers

• 44,000 increase to a total of 124,000 between
  1994 and 2000
• 66 were certified in mathematics in 2000
• Among the 50 states, only 11 have over 80
  certified in mathematics in 2000

(Blank Langesen, 2001)
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Crisis or Opportunity
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Education

• The function of education is to teach one to
  think intensively and to think critically...
  Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of
  true education.
• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Challenge

• It is impossible for a man to learn what he
  thinks he already knows.
• Epictetus

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Patience

• Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he
  doesn't do what you do or think as you think or
  as fast. There was a time when you didn't know
  what you know today.
• Malcolm X

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Success

• Determination Discipline Hard Work Equal
  Success
• Jaime Escalante

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Pygmalion effect

• The idea that one's expectations about a
  person can eventually lead that person to behave
  and achieve in ways that conform to those
  expectations.

Rosenthal and Jacobson's PYGMALION IN THE
CLASSROOM (1968), Tauber, R. (1998)
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Professional Learning

• Additive Learning
• the addition of new skills to an existing
  repertoire
• Transformative Learning
• substantial changes in deeply held beliefs,
  knowledge, and habits of practice

• Thompson Zueli, 1999

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What are learning styles?

• Learning styles (modality preferences) are simply
  different approaches or ways of learning.

Learning styles
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Types of learning styles

• Visual Learners
• Auditory Learners
• Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners

Learning styles
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by
Stephen R. Covey





                                                                                                                                                                    
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Knowledge (what to, why to)
Habits
Skills (how to)
Desire (want to)
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College Readiness Standards

• Process
• Problem Solving
• Communication
• Reasoning Proof
• Connections

• Content
• Number Sense
• Geometry
• Statistics Probability
• Algebra
• Functions

Washington State Mathematics Standards
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Communications

• I ________ math because
• One time in math I felt
• Explain a procedure to a friend
• TIPS

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Writing across the curriculum

• Challenge
• Training
• Support

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Another approach

• Whole-person learning
• Combine experiential with cognitive learning
• Enhanced learning

A Way of Being by Carl R. Rogers
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Addressing the Affective Domain

• Personal Epistemology
• Views about ones own knowing learning
• Emotions

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Ask students--True or False?

• I cant do math.
• Math is always hard.
• Only smart people can do math.
• Mathematicians always do math problems quickly in
  their heads.
• If I dont understand a problem immediately, I
  never will.

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Negative Experience
Thoughts I cant do math
Emotions I am frightened by math
Behaviors I avoid numbers I dont practice math
Body sensations My stomach tenses when I see numbers
Mean Math Blues by Cheryl Ooten
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Positive Experience
Thoughts I can do some math I dont need to get it all right now
Emotions I am frightened by math
Behaviors I avoid numbers I dont practice math
Body sensations My stomach tenses when I see numbers
Mean Math Blues by Cheryl Ooten
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Effective words for Re-frames

• Yet
• For now
• At this moment

Mean Math Blues by Cheryl Ooten
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Student Thinking
Ability to explain work Ability to explain work Ability to explain work
Ability to perform Dont Know Know
Ability to perform Cant Do Mysterious Unknown Theoretical Unable to Demonstrate
Ability to perform Can Do Magical Unexplained Intentional Deliberate Practice
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Resources and Tools

• Academic Senate for California Community Colleges
  
• www.asccc.org
• A Writers Reference http//bcs.bedfordstmartins.c
  om/writersref6e/Player/Pages/Main.aspx
• Daves ESL Café
• http//www.eslcafe.com/

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Resources and Tools

• How to Be a Great Math Student
• by Richard Manning Smith
• Managing the Mean Math Blues
• by Cheryl Ooten
• Mathematical Association of America
• www.maa.org

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Resources and Tools

• National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
  www.nctm.org
• Nursing Allied Health Math Tutorial
• Resources for California Community College
  Associate Degree Nursing Program
• Personal Epistemology The Psychology of Beliefs
  about Knowledge and Knowing edited by Barbara
  Hofer and Paul R. Pintrich

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Resources Tools

• www.SkillsTutor.com
• Study Guides and Strategies http//www.studygs.net
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