November 5,1999
Seminar
Indiana Memorial Union
Agenda for Nov 5
Suggested Discussion Items for Teachers
Web Sites of Interest
AGENDA
- 8:30 - 8:45 am
Coffee
- 8:45 - 9:00 am
ACP Business
(Sharon Sperry)
- 9:00 - 11:00 am -
Experience with Current
Courses (30 min each - see below)
- Phil McKinley
- Matthew Hitchings
- Jim Wiltshire
- David Blair
- 11:00 - 11:30 pm
Discussion of
Progress/Problems (led by Alex Dzierba)
- Curriculum
- Text
- Math background: Algebra, Trig and Calculus
- Labs
- Homework problems
- Demonstrations
- Quizzes
- Exams
- Communicating via e-mail and the web
11:30 am to 1:00 pm
Lunch in the Tudor Room
- 1:00 - 1:45 pm
- ACP Physics and QuarkNet
(David Blair, Matt Hitchings, Kathy Plinske)
- 1:45 - 2:45 pm
- Make up of the Final
Exam (led by Alex Dzierba)
- Procedure used by Chemistry and Calculus (Sharon
Sperry)
- One-session exam vs two-session exams
- Soliciting input from the teachers on a draft exam
- Procedures for security, answer keys, etc...
- Trial exam - before year's end?
- 2:45 - 3:00 pm
- ACP Business
(Sharon Sperry)
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Teachers
of Current Courses -
Presentations
Suggestions for Discussion Items
- Students
- Number in course
- Attendance
- Student profile
- Number taking for ACP credit
- Meeting times
- Text
- Your comments
- Student comments
- Problems
- Math
- Level of student preparation: Algebra and Trig
- Calculus courses:
- Prior to physics course or concurrent?
- Do they prepare students?
- Introduction of math topics in the physics course
- Use of computers/calculators in the course
- Homework problems
- Labs
- Interactive Physics
- e-mail
- World Wide Web
- Curriculum
- Plan
- Actual realization
- Pace of the course
- Homework assignments
- Frequency
- Problems per assignment
- Grading policy
- Labs
- Number of periods devoted to lab work
- Integration with material taught
- Grading policy
- Lab work part of homework ?
- Quizzes
- Frequency
- Level of difficulty
- Grading policy
- Exams
- Frequency
- Level of difficulty
- Grading policy
- Administration
- regarding use of calculators
- formulae
- Demonstrations
- Any other issues
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Web Sites of Interest
1. Calculus-based physics at Indiana U - these site also have
posted quizzes and past and present exams
2. The ultimate nerd looks at the mathematics
of the St. Louis Arch and hanging chains
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