A Teaching Guide to Revitalizing STEM Education: Phoenix in the Classroom

Daryao Khatri

doi:10.5771/9781610484497

Summary

Standard math and science textbooks typically follow a deductive style of content presentation that involves too much lecturing, too much of the teacher’s back at the chalkboard, too little interaction with students, and too little time for all of the students to take adequate notes.

By reading and using A Teaching Guide to Revitalizing STEM Education, educators will rediscover how to streamline the subject matter— math, physics, statistics, and organic chemistry—by eliminating unnecessary difficulties and distractions from course textbooks. A useful guide for both high school teachers and postsecondary faculty, this book explains how to organize, arrange, and streamline STEM content so that it is approachable, understandable, and applicable for students. Likewise, this guide discusses important classroom management skills and pedagogical techniques that will help students master these critical subjects. Providing and explaining over a dozen lesson plans, A Teaching Guide to Revitalizing STEM Education will encourage educators to effectively optimize the recent emphases on science, technology, engineering, and math education.

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Bibliographic data

Edition: 1/2012
Copyright Year: 2012
ISBN-Print: 978-1-61048-448-0
ISBN-Online: 978-1-61048-449-7
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 118
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 4
Chapter 1: Pedagogical Principles and Course Streamlining No access Pages 5 - 14
Chapter 2: Organization, Definitions, and Common Features No access Pages 15 - 18
Chapter 3: First Day of the Class No access Pages 19 - 22
Chapter 4: Arithmetic Operations with Mixed Numerals: Basic Math No access Pages 23 - 30
Chapter 5: Percents: Basic Math No access Pages 31 - 36
Chapter 6: Solving Simultaneous Equations Using the Elimination Method: Determinants and Matrices in Matrix Algebra No access Pages 37 - 44
Chapter 7: Three Coordinate Systems in Calculus and Mathematical Physics No access Pages 45 - 50
Chapter 8: Horizontal and Vertical Linear Motions: College Physics I No access Pages 51 - 56
Chapter 9: An Application of Newton’s Second Law of Motion: College Physics I No access Pages 57 - 62
Chapter 10: Hydrogen Spectral Lines in Visible, Ultraviolet, and Infrared Spectrums: College Physics II No access Pages 63 - 68
Chapter 11: Simple Vector Operations: Physics, Mathematics, and Engineering No access Pages 69 - 74
Chapter 12: Frequencies, Percents, Histograms, and Polygons: Statistics No access Pages 75 - 78
Chapter 13: Mean, Median, and Mode: Measures of Central Tendency in Statistics No access Pages 79 - 82
Chapter 14: Measures of Variability/Dispersion—Calculating the Range and the Standard Deviation: Mathematics and Statistics No access Pages 83 - 88
Chapter 15: The Correlated “t” Test: Statistics No access Pages 89 - 94
Chapter 16: Concepts and Skills Review: Organic Chemistry I No access Pages 95 - 98
Chapter 17: Skills and Concepts for Molecular Geometry: Organic Chemistry I No access Pages 99 - 104
Chapter 18: Molecular Geometry and Electron Domain Geometry: Organic Chemistry I No access Pages 105 - 108
Chapter 19: Nomenclature—The System of Naming Hydrocarbons: Organic Chemistry I No access Pages 109 - 114
Conclusion No access Pages 115 - 116
About the Authors No access Pages 117 - 118