Faculty Pedagogy Colloquium: “The ‘Elements’ of Success: Building Comfort and Skill in Mathematics for Future Science Courses”

This presentation will discuss supporting students interested in science careers in terms of their math and science preparation by providing more options for a first course (pathway) in science/math. In particular, we will describe the implementation of changes in the MATH 120 curriculum to correlate with preparing future science majors for their General Chemistry coursework. Strategies employed in MATH 120 and CHEM 101, an existing pathway course, will be compared in terms of the potential for successful trajectories to later science courses.