The article presents a comparison of online and on ground instructional techniques focusing on the differences between face-to-face and computer-mediated communication. Lessons are drawn from the authors, who collectively teach online courses at Nova Southeastern University as well as the United States Sports Academy, Baker College, the University of Central Florida, and the University of Hawai...

In recent years, mathematics is an essential aspect of all areas of daily life and the best predictor of being successful in economic situations of society. For many students, the mathematics accompanied with frustration, anxiety and negative attitudes towards mathematics. These students believe their anxiety have been derived from their math teachers, math misconception and weakness in math as...

skills are useful for different careers, and our math education should be changed to reflect this fact.” There is apparently very little to disagree with in the claim. But it completely misses the urgency in addressing the crisis facing us. The “worry” is based mostly on the poor learning and hence poor performance of our high school students who are just not ready at graduation to either succe...

Overview In this article I describe my experiences from a graduate course on industrial math that I taught at Duke in the spring semester 1995. When I volunteered to teach this course, several months before the beginning of the semester, it seemed like a very manageable task; but as the time to start teaching drew closer, I grew apprehensive that I would be unable to develop a successful course...

41 DID YOU WALK OR RIDE A bicycle to school? Chances are that you did. Thirty years ago, the sight of children walking or bicycling to school was common—66 percent of all children did so. Now, however, 87 percent of all trips to and from school are made by car or bus.1 Safe Routes to School (SR2S) provides some solutions to reverse this generational shift. It is a growing movement that integrat...

High-quality teaching of mathematics at the university level is important to every country. Almost all of the best jobs in the global economy require fluency in mathematics, and a great many require advanced technical knowledge. High-quality university math instruction contributes to high student achievement in the quantitative disciplines and prepares students for good jobs. Moreover, universi...

Virtual learning is a popular teaching modality, and it has been reported in research that there is no significant difference in academic outcome as compared with face-to-face courses. Not all researchers agree with this assertion and some claim it is more difficult to teach math-oriented subjects online. Given that educational psychology theories are effective for teaching quantitative topics ...