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Don't Like the Text? Write Your Own!! Mary M. Roberson Associate Professor - Mathematics

Don't Like the Text? Write Your Own!! Mary M. Roberson Associate Professor - Mathematics Delta College AMATYC Conference Anaheim, California November 2, 2013. Who is Mary M. Roberson?. University of California at Berkeley - honors mathematics. University of Wyoming B.S. and M.S.

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Don't Like the Text? Write Your Own!! Mary M. Roberson Associate Professor - Mathematics

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  1. Don't Like the Text? Write Your Own!! Mary M. Roberson Associate Professor - Mathematics Delta College AMATYC Conference Anaheim, California November 2, 2013

  2. Who is Mary M. Roberson? University of California at Berkeley - honors mathematics University of Wyoming B.S. and M.S. Mathematics Eastern Michigan University M.S. Clinical Psychology Older Adult Services - Neighborhood Service Organization Project SEED - Detroit Delta College

  3. PROGRESSION... Handouts Worksheets Supplemental Problems Additional Homework More Handouts Quizzes Supplemental Lessons Quickie Practice Reviews ONLINE Student Comments/Suggestions

  4. Why Do This? $$$$$$ Savings to Students $$$$$$ Intermediate Algebra Texts currently in use at Delta Intermediate Alg For College Students Author: Blitzer Publisher: Pearson Bookstore New Cost: $167.50 My Math Lab Stand Alone Access Kit Publisher: Pearson Online Text only: $103.75 Intermediate Algebra Author: Clark Publisher: B/C Bookstore New Cost: $172.50 OR

  5. Intermediate Algebra Author: Roberson $31.25

  6. FIT FITFITFITFITFITFIT COMPLETE ... *guaranteed to meet the course Outcomes and Objectives. *able to blend a variety of approaches. ... and CONCISE FIT FITFITFITFITFITFIT *designed for YOUR curriculum. *no extraneous material is included. *students know that if it is in the text, then it is important. *students must, and do, READ the text. *each lesson is bite-size and matches a class session.

  7. Delta College Mathematics DivisionDelta College Printing and Bookstore • Encouragement! Very Accommodating!! Academic Freedom! Easy to Work With!! NO Roadblocks! Few (and readily fixed) Errors!! Allowed to Experiment! What helped in this project? HELP HELP HELP HELP Monetary and Divisional HELP HELP HELP HELP Sabbatical Leaves and Grants Committee • Delta College will support justifiable proposals • for Released/Extra Contractual Time Projects, • which are directed toward: • A. Improving the quality of instruction • B. Developing or revising curricula • C. Decreasing credit hour costs of instruction • D. Individual (or group) research projects • E. Other areas within the philosophy and • objectives of the College

  8. Where/when has this been used? ONLINE Face-to-Face Face-to-Face Extended Face-to-Face Accelerated

  9. What are Some Advantages? COST $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ F I T NO (well... easily corrected) Errors

  10. More Advantages Topic no longer used? Take it out!! Topic needs revision? Modify it!! Not enough texts in bookstore due toincreased student enrollment? Quickly (less than one day) print more! New topics needed? More practice needed? Put them in!! Need something for THIS semester or for TODAY? Give the pages to the current students to insert into their text!

  11. Even MORE Advantages Nothing Etra! STUDENT  SUCCESS A t ti t u d e E X P E C T A T I O N S

  12. … and Even MORE Advantages NO WASTE - SUSTAINABLE CHECKING

  13. Personal Notes on the - side ... - The text has NOT been generally adopted by the division. - This took a LOT of TIME and EFFORT! - Without professional editing, it has taken many years to find all of the typos.

  14. Personal Notes on the + side ... + The STUDENTS seem to truly appreciate this option. + ONLINE has shown dramatic changes in success! + Face-to-face has shown no decrease in success! + My classes fill earlier. + I have fewer dropouts than before.

  15. OK, OK, what does this look like? *CONTENTS *LESSONS/HW/ANSWERS (YELLOW PAGES) * PRACTICE PROBLEMS * SAMPLE QUIZZES * WRITING/CALCULATOR * REVIEW PROBLEMS * SAMPLE FINAL EXAM * INDEX

  16. ?? ? • ???? ?????QUESTIONS????? • ? ? ? • ?? maryroberson@delta.edu • ?? ?

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