In the spring of 2009, I was hired to teach a developmental math class to high school students at the Early College Alliance at EMU. I was hired one week before I was to begin teaching and I designed and planned my 6-week course in its entirety before my classes began. I am including a copy of syllabus as evidence of my instructional planning skills, as well as a comment regarding my syllabus from one of the other math instructors.
Utilize a five-step problem-solving process and employ a variety of problem-solving tools
Compute fluently and make reasonable estimates using rounding.
Solve word problems that arise in authentic contexts.
Use order of operations to simplify expressions.
Use properties of exponents.
Solve problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of positive and negative integers.
Add, subtract, multiply and divide fractions, decimals and percents.
Change fractions to percents to decimals.
Solve ratio and proportion problems.
Solve word problems involving fractions, decimals, ratios and percents.
Solve linear equations.
Subject: Question for you
To: lweaklan@emich.edu
Date: Thursday, May 28, 2009, 11:27 AM
Hi Laura,
I can't remember if I ever told you that I love your syllabus :-) Yup, I'm buttering you up!!!!!!!! Do you mind if I use some of it in my fall syllabus? I just wanted to check in case you do mind (which is totally ok too!).
Gina
Early College Alliance @ EMU
CORE Advisor and Math Teacher
