TY - JOUR
T1 - Promoting stem education through mathematics weekend retreats
AU - Goonatilake, Rohitha
AU - Bachnak, Rafic A.
AU - Khosraviyani, Firooz
AU - Wu, Qingquan
N1 - Funding Information:
This project was partially supported by a STEM Recruitment, Retention, and Graduation (STEM RRG) grant funded by the U.S. Department of Education. More information about this grant is found at http://www.tamiu.edu/~rbachnak/STEMRRG/index3.html Ms. Candy Hein, Vice President and Ms. Rebecca L. Garcia, Director of Development & Donor Relations from the Office of the Institutional Advancement at Texas A&M International University have assisted us to inform the community of these program activities. The work of other session moderators, Asela Acosta, Miguel San Miguel, Juan M. Gonzalez, Patricia D. Proa, Pablo D. Morales, Jose T. Santacruz, and Christy Babu for this MWR is greatly appreciated. The student assistants, Carlos A. Villarreal, Julio C. Talamantes, Sasha R. Obregon, and Navil Lozano took care of the day to day activities of the workshop assisting the authors (as program coordinators). Finally, Ms. Nadia C. De La Garza, department secretary helped in providing and purchasing items needed for a successful completion of the retreats.
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PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - There is a strong sentiment among the academic community that higher academic achievement in mathematics leads to individuals being better prepared to pursue a STEM education, as higher mathematics scores on the SAT, ACT, or AP tests correlate with entry into STEM education. With this in mind, the STEM Recruitment, Retention, and Graduation (STEM-RRG) program funded by the US Department of Education at Texas A&M International University (TAMIU), Laredo, Texas organized Mathematics Weekend Retreats (MWR) for the second time in spring 2011. Past MWR consisted of 20 Saturday-Sunday weekend sessions from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. With the lessons learned from this experience, we planned and implemented another series of 10 weekend sessions, and were able to offer enrichment sessions in mathematics for high school students, including some middle school students, to obtain higher scores in these tests. This paper documents the planning, delivery, and preliminary results of this endeavor for the benefit of schools and authorities in higher education.
AB - There is a strong sentiment among the academic community that higher academic achievement in mathematics leads to individuals being better prepared to pursue a STEM education, as higher mathematics scores on the SAT, ACT, or AP tests correlate with entry into STEM education. With this in mind, the STEM Recruitment, Retention, and Graduation (STEM-RRG) program funded by the US Department of Education at Texas A&M International University (TAMIU), Laredo, Texas organized Mathematics Weekend Retreats (MWR) for the second time in spring 2011. Past MWR consisted of 20 Saturday-Sunday weekend sessions from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. With the lessons learned from this experience, we planned and implemented another series of 10 weekend sessions, and were able to offer enrichment sessions in mathematics for high school students, including some middle school students, to obtain higher scores in these tests. This paper documents the planning, delivery, and preliminary results of this endeavor for the benefit of schools and authorities in higher education.
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M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85078825724
SN - 2573-4377
VL - 5
SP - 54
EP - 63
JO - Mathematics Teaching-Research Journal
JF - Mathematics Teaching-Research Journal
IS - 2
ER -