American college educators are familiar with the phenomenon of their
students viewing their education as a process of mastering a collection
of unrelated skills from a variety of academic disciplines, an approach
to learning that can impede genuine academic success. Rather than seeing the practical value of solid mathematical and writing skills and in their courses and in their future careers, students are more apt to express relief at having "gotten through" these mathematics and writing requirements because they
perceive that they have gotten them "out of the way" of their college careers.
The information presented is aimed at providing an avenue through which students can strengthen their mathematical and writing skills. It connects these two disciplines
explicitly in order to counter the point of view among students that learning in college is merely the mastery of a series of unrelated skills. By stressing the foundations common to mathematics and writing and by helping students become better mathematicians through writers through mathematics, two seemingly disparate disciplines will be understood in terms of their common underpinnings.
This WEB site contains numerous projects, modules, and assignments for faculty to use. Each one either presents a way in which writing can be used in the teaching of mathematics or where mathematics can be used in the teaching of composition. |
