Speakers
Description
Since the COVID pandemic, the algebraic fluency of our pre-health college students has been diminishing, yet that math is still very important to students' success even in concept-centered introductory physics classes.
As a possible solution to this problem, we will present a year-long applied algebra course that we developed and offered in the past 4 years at the University of Virginia Physics Department. The course is a co-requisite to a traditional pre-health physics lecture and replaces the 1 credit laboratory course that ordinarily accompanies our lecture course.
We will discuss the motivation behind the course, underlying pedagogy, its implementation, and will share free, field tested materials that can be used as a whole course or as supplements in any configuration of intro physics courses.
