Madison Wisconsin Learning Mathematics Pdf

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Alice Pulvermacher
Office of Academic & Student Affairs, Project Director & Principal Investigator

This multi-institutional collaboration of UW faculty, staff, and administrators is working to improve student success by helping incoming students successfully complete their gateway mathematics course by the end of their first two semesters of study. This initiative builds on many years of foundational work on math education from across the UW System. The Math Initiative works directly with UW institutions to review national models, better meet our students' needs, and enable them to achieve their educational goals.

The UW System Office of Academic and Student Affairs is supporting the Math Initiative with financial and administrative resources. In January 2018, Ascendium Education Group (the former Great Lakes Higher Education Corporation & Affiliates) awarded a multi-year $2.3 million grant to help UW System advance Math Initiative goals.

In 2018 UW institutions engaged faculty from arts and humanities, social and behavioral sciences, math, and other STEM programs as participants on their institutional change teams. In 2019 they engaged faculty from business, education, and nursing, and shared early progress with the UW System Board of Regents. Starting in 2020 and continuing in 2021, they have been working on strategies such as active learning and co-requisite math courses to support student success in developmental and gateway mathematics.

Institutional teams also include advising staff, data analysts, and representatives from two-year campuses. Read a few quotes from Math Initiative participants and the funder pdf about this initiative.

Information about participants at each institution is provided in the "About Us" section of this website; and a glossary of terms and other resources related to the Math Initiative's work are available in the "Resources" section. For more about Alice Pulvermacher, read a brief bio pdf .

Please contact apulvermacher@uwsa.edu with any questions.

"I really enjoyed this class. I was nervous about it ahead of time because I never thought I would be able to understand Abstract Algebra, but I understood a lot more than I thought I was going to. I owe a lot of that to the way Dr. McCabe organized the class and set up the group activities we did in class."

"Despite not being in the physical classroom, the breakout rooms brought the classroom to life and helped me to connect with peers."

Students' comments on active learning strategies incorporated by Cindy McCabe, Chair, UW-Stevens Point Mathematical Sciences

Find student success strategies shared through Math Initiative professional development

UW System Gateway Math Courses

The University of Wisconsin System Math Steering Committee representing all 13 institutions developed, vetted and finalized course descriptions and learning outcomes for the most common gateway mathematics courses/course sequences in the system and developed a document to guide implementation of co-requisites for gateway math:

College Algebra pdf
Quantitative Reasoning pdf
Statistics pdf
Early Childhood / Elementary & Middle School Mathematics Learning Outcomes pdf
Recommendations for Additional Middle School Mathematics Learning Outcomes pdf
Fundamental Features of Co-requisite Developmental Math pdf

UW System Math Initiative representatives since have been sharing the course descriptions and learning outcomes with Wisconsin educational partners, such as:

Wisconsin Technical College System
Wisconsin Association of Independent Colleges and Universities
Wisconsin Mathematics Council
Wisconsin section of the Mathematics Association of America
Wisconsin PK-12 education administrators and high school mathematics instructors

Outreach to secondary education also has included venues, such as:

Wisconsin School Counselor Association
Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI)
Curriculum and instruction Cooperative Educational Service Agency district representatives
UW-Madison Professional Learning and Community Engagement College Readiness in Math Symposium

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