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Expectation Gaps Between High School Mathematics Courses And College Calculus, Lauren M. Godfrey
Expectation Gaps Between High School Mathematics Courses And College Calculus, Lauren M. Godfrey
Senior Honors Projects, 2020-current
As a tutor at the Science and Math Learning Center (SMLC) at James Madison University (JMU), I have seen a disconnect between students’ preparation from their high school math classes and their application of particular topics in higher level math classes (i.e. Calculus I). As a future high school math teacher, I wanted to investigate the expectation gap between high school and college math classes. I observed a Calculus I class during the first week of classes to determine the students’ initial struggles. I finally landed on the topic of logarithms and specifically the rules associated with them. I conducted …