The 39^th Annual Fall Conference was held in Monterey, Dec 9-10, 2011, at Portola Hotel and Spa.

Community College instructors in California all have extensive mathematics backgrounds, but there is much mathematics that we can learn. We can learn from our students, from our colleagues, from articles and books, over coffee, in the car, running on a track, at lunch, and in the shower. Wade will relate some of the interesting mathematics he has learned: why he learned it, who he learned it from, and/or where he learned it.

In this presentation I will take the opportunity to look across the different research studies I have conducted in the US and the UK, which have studied different teaching approaches and their impact on student learning. We will consider together the qualities and characteristics of successful mathematics teaching and the research evidence for the ways that students are impacted by different approaches. Together we will watch students engage in problem solving, considering the ways that students’ lives are changed when they are introduced to the beauty and diversity of mathematics.

Pre-Conference Workshops

Cengage Event: New Features and Best Practices of Enhanced WebAssign, 3-5 pm Portola
iLearn Event: Prescriptive Technology Based Learning Support that Yields Faster Developmental Math Completion Rates, 3-5 pm, Cottonwood I Casio Event: Using the ClassPad to Explore Mathematics, 3-5 pm Redwood I

Schedule of the Saturday Concurrent Sessions

Presentations provided can be found below.

Future CMC³ Conferences

Information about future conferences is available. For conference information, contact the Conference Chair. For registration information contact the Membership Chair