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Effects Of Inquiry Based Learning On An Undergraduate Precalculus Course, Jessica Wilson
Effects Of Inquiry Based Learning On An Undergraduate Precalculus Course, Jessica Wilson
UNO Student Research and Creative Activity Fair
MATH 1340 has a history of high DFW rates. This is true not just at UNO but nationally as well. An Inquiry Based Learning (IBL) approach to teaching this course could be a possible solution. In the fall 2016 semester I assisted Dr. Matthews with a MATH 1340 course. This class focused on problem solving in groups with little lecture time and many student presentations. To compare our class to the traditionally taught precalculus class we gave a pretest and posttest to both sections. After performing a two sample t-test on the data we found that students in the IBL …