| Originator: | Clifford, Laurel Status: Approved Department: MAT Mathematics |
| Date Created: | 11/13/2020 Submitted: 11/13/2020 Completed: 11/19/2020 |
| ATF (Program or Discipline): | Mathematics |
| Date of the ATF: | 10/2/2020 |
| Statewide Update: | Information available at link: https://aztransfer.com/binder/resources/PPTs/MATH2020.pptx
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| University Curricular updates: | NEW International Baccalaureate (IB) EXAM under review: UA, ASU, NAU are currently reviewing the new International Baccalaureate exams. IB has new exams starting in May 2021. This is how the three universities all currently award credit for students who receive a score of 5 out of 7 (standard score for credit across U.S.):
IB Exam Name, Required Minimum Score, Arizona Articulation Mathematics SL Exam, 5 or above, College Mathematics Mathematics HL Exam, 5 or above, Precalculus and Calculus There are two other exams: Mathematics Studies SL - was determined that is high school curriculum and credit is not awarded. Further Mathematics HL - math elective credit. We actually were going to evaluate this on a case by case basis. Note: UA sees very few IB exams coming through their system. Curriculuar Updates: University of Arizona 1. No major updates. Regarding Fall and Online classes: a. We are trying to provide some upper division online courses to be permanently offered online so students enrolled in our online campus can complete a Math minor. b. All of our classes for fall 2020 are currently being run online. Some may switch to in-person or hybrid in-person. All are online after Thanksgiving. All finals will be proctored online. Arizona State University, Northern Arizona University report no major updates. |
| Community college Curricular Updates: | Pima College:
1. We are forming a combined PreCalc 1 + PreCalc 2 and want to make sure this new course articulates across colleges and universities. See attached google doc for our course outline and current comments from other institutions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mQ8fmJXQTH0FiFVUThfMLvD1SAcOfxjT/view?usp=sharing 2. We are looking to broaden our use of a "graphing calculator" for our courses to "graphing technologies". This would include use of the Desmos graphing tool instead of specifically just using a graphing calculator. Related Discussion: Graphing calculator vs. graphing technology shouldn't be an issue at UA. Type of technology used hasn't been specified in articulation. Cochise College: 1. All of our math classes except for the technical math, MAT 132 Applied Mathematics, are being taught by distance learning, primarily using zoom, or online this semester. 2. We are piloting a 2 credit corequisite MAT 090 Precalculus Algebra with MAT 151 College Algebra this fall for the first time. We have one section 'on' our Douglas campus as well as one section 'on' our Sierra Vista campus. It is still early for us to tell if it is helping this semester. We plan on piloting the same format for the spring but are crossing our fingers we can teach these in a face-to-face format with social distancing. 3. We are looking into adapting the AS Math degree (also meets the AGEC-S requirement) to add choices for the content electives. Currently the choice is math or lab science and we would like to add computer science and engineering courses as options. 4. We are looking at making our current MAT 142 College Math class focus more on quantitative reasoning. With our new curriculum process we are due to update the curriculum for this course and will submit that to be reviewed once we have it prepared. 5. The department is talking about trying to pilot a corequisite course to go with MAT 142 for fall 2021 but this may be put on hold until fall 2022. Central Arizona College: Our team of Calculus instructors are investigating overlaps in our MAT 221 Calc I and MAT 231 Calc II courses. They are requesting feedback on the following 3 topics. Are these typically covered in Calc I, Calc II or both? Currently we cover all three of these topics in both courses: 1. Implicit Differentiation 2. Derivatives of Inverse Function & Logarithms 3. The Logarithm Defined As an Integral Related Discussion: Please provide feedback on the Calculus question via email. Yavapai College: 1. MAT 187 Precalculus: we submitted MAT 187 as two CRN MAT 182 (Precalc Algebra) and MAT 183 (Trig) so students could earn a transferable gen ed credit if they passed the Algebra portion of precalculus (transfer as college algebra) but not the trigonometry portion, or if they changed their major and no longer need the full precalculus class (no change in scheduling). 2. Looking at revising MAT 152 College Algebra from modeling to more traditional topics. Is it possible for students to take MAT 152 and a trigonometry class and transfer it as precalculus? What is the purpose of MAT 152 as far as a prerequisite or degree requirement at the university? Are there any degrees that specifically list MAT 152 as the required math course? Related discussion: ASU uses College Algebra as a prerequisite for MAT 210 Brief Calculus. |
| Suggested changes to matricies: | Yavapai CC: Has not taught College Algebra and Trigonometry as separate course for some time, and is splitting their MAT 187 Precalculus into MAT 182 Precalculus (College Algebra) and MAT 183 Precalculus (Trigonometry) to enable students who successfully complete the algebra portion of the course but are not successful in the trigonometry portion to earn credit for the algebra portion. University of Arizona approved the courses to transfer to their equivalent College Algebra and Trigonometry, approval date: 5/22/2020. If a Yavapai student takes MAT 182 and 183, it will place them into calculus.
Discussion ensued on the transferability of precalculus courses split similarly, and all three Universities will accept the courses. Coconino CC: Math for Elementary Teachers I and II (MAT 180, 181) do not show an articulated course to ASU or UA. University of Arizona's program numbers the course at the 300 level, and thus cannot show articulation, but they evaluate the course, and it will satisfy the necessary requirements (they have not denied it). Arizona State's elementary education program is housed in the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College now, and it will need to be reviewed. Pima CC: Precalculus as two courses combination (MAT 188 Precalculus I and MAT 189 Precalculus II) is blank in the ASU column in the CEGs. Scott Surgent will look into it. The courses listed individually show transferability as MAT 117 and MAT 170 respectively. Changes to Mathematics Matrix: NAU and UA report no changes. ASU has four additions to the degree list: **ASU Tempe: BS Data Science **ASU Polytechnic: BS Applied Mathematics **ASU West: BS Statistics, BS Applied Mathematics |
| Volunteering: | No. |
| Additional Comments: | Additional Precalculus discussion: Reference was made to last year's Precalculus meeting and its unfinished curriculum discussion. Many institutions are seeing poor success rates in Precalculus (SUN1187), and are choosing to create or already implement a two-course Precalc (College) Algebra and Precalc Trig sequence to improve student success rates and/or allow students to capture credit for the first course if they do not pass the second, or change their majors. Some institutions are offering them as 2 semester sequential, some allow concurrent enrollment, and some are looking at 2 eight-week sections within one semester. NAU used a 5 week 3 credit MAT 108 Algebra for Precalculus course followed by a 10 week 4 credit MAT 125 Precalculus course in a 'late start' into precalc model. Students will earn 7 credits in on semester, and they have about 50 students online, and so far are on track to being successful.
Discussion arose as to whether or not any content could be pulled out of Precalculus. Suggestions included polar coordinates, conics, vectors, parametric equations, sequences, series, and nonlinear systems. Concern was expressed over the necessity of matrices and systems of linear equations for success in Finite Math. If there is interest, we can have a follow-up meeting for further Precalculus discussion sometime in the new year. SUN Numbers: There was an issue where courses with the same title/content by different credit amounts could not have the SUN number on all three versions of the course. Example cited is MAT 150, 151, and 152, all College Algebra courses. Is the purpose of the SUN number to align credit amounts (credits to credits) or course content (content to content)? Note: in the CEGs, MAT 150, 151, 152, 155 and 156 all carry the same SUN number for College Algebra, 1151. Aztranfer.com has more information on SUN numbers at https://aztransfer.com/sun/ although they use MAT 151 as an example on this page, but misidentify it as 'Financial Accounting' instead of College Algebra. Statistics discussion: Suggestion was brought forward to have a meeting to discuss Statistics curriculum, along with Data Science courses, similar to the MAT 142 College Math meeting held in 2019. A Google poll could be generated to determine the people interested in attending. Kate Kozak is willing to lead this meeting, with a Jan/Feb. possible date (via Zoom) and Laura Watkins agreed to conduct the Google poll. |