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Workshops were held at Wayne State University, University of North Carolina - Charlotte and North Carolina State University. A total of 62 teachers attending the workshops this summer! This year both the Deterministic Modeling and the Probabiility and Decsion Making sections Many of these teachers will begin piloting the material in their mathematics classes this school year.
Next summer we plan to hold workshop again. Please check back in March for the Summer 2011 workshop schedule. |
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Help Desk is open! You can call the toll free 1-888-M1NDSET (1-888-616-3738) and leave a message or email the help desk at mindset@help.ncsu.edu, or just click the Request Help link on the website. The help desk is staffed by our experienced and talented graduate students; most likely you will have a response to your question in 24 hours or less. We love to hear from you, and please let us know if you have any questions or need assistance. |
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We have been busy re-writing many of the chapters, and with this we will be changing the order of the chapters. This decision was made after we began receiving feedback from teachers. The only change in the Deterministic Material will be that Chapter 10: Multi-Criterion Decision Making, will become Chapter 1. Students enjoyed the example problems of selecting a used car and this chapter is a great introduction to the overall objective of the course – using mathematics to make real world decisions.
The Probabilistic chapters will undergo a more significant change, see table below
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Chapter
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New Chapter number
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Old Chapter number
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Decision Trees
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11
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13
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Basic Probability
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12
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11
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Binomial/Geometric
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13
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12
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Normal Distribution
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14
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15 and 16
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Quality Control
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15
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17
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Poisson
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16
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14
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False Positives/False Negatives
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17
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new
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Queuing
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18
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18
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PERT
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19
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20
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Markov Chains
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20
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19
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Additional homework questions have been added to many of the chapters. The chapter links will stay the same on the website until mid-June 2010, to avoid any confusion during this school year. |
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Many teachers are piloting chapter or the entire course this semester, and doing a great job! Don’t forget to upload your feedback information through the link on the website. Several teachers have requested sharing of information on test and quizzes. You can share that information through Discussion Forum associated with each chapter. To access the Discussion Forum, use the Discuss Chapters tab in the Task section. The Discussion Forum is a great way to share information and see how other educators have used the material in their class. Don’t be shy, we love to see what you are doing. You can also include attachments through the Discussion Forum, for example if you make a worksheet or gave a quiz you can post it. This is a great way to help each other out.
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Sample of Student Work - Hot Dog Stand Problem
Another Student Explanation for the Hot Dog Stand Problem
Project Participants Collaborating At The Workshop
Giving Hands-on Instruction
A Long Day of Studying For Teachers |
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