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Victoria Dominguez, Cristian Martinez, & Sanaa Saykali
Citrus College via ASCCC Open Educational Resources Initiative

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Applied Calculus Corequisite Workbook

Victoria Dominguez, Cristian Martinez, and Sanaa Saykali

This document serves as a Corequisite Workbook for an Applied Calculus course. It is vitally important for students who take this course (and its corequisite) to have a thorough and complete refresher of Algebra skills needed for Calculus. These problems may be assigned as in-class practice problems, and can be also assigned as homework, to be graded and counted toward the Applied Calculus corequisite final grade.

Supported in part by the Academic Senate for California Community College’s Open Educational Resources Initiative.

INTRODUCTION TO THE CO-REQUISITE CLASSROOM

So, what is meant by a student-centered learning environment and how does it differ from the traditional math classroom? In this learning model, the focus of activity shifts from the teacher to the learner. Class time is spent on discussion, collaborative work, and engagement with other brains-on activities. Additionally, during class, teaching and learning is tailored to fit the needs of small groups of students as they work through these activities and review prerequisite skills in a just-in-time approach. This learning model employs a teacher-guided-discovery process that allows the instructor to identify gaps in student understanding and use class time to remediate those gaps before moving on to the next topic. In summary, the student should expect to engage in the following activities during class.

Group-work to motivate and introduce key concepts for each of the course topics
Group-work to review skills and work through skill-building problems from topics previously discussed in class
Class discussions
Mini lectures as necessary to close gaps in concept mastery or skill attainment
Mini on-the-spot Round Robin poster presentations
Peer-review feedback
Collaborate with classmates to master transfer-level Applied Calculus

Furthermore, the student should expect to do the following outside of class:

Complete the assigned reading and homework
Review course material daily
Work through review problems to prepare for exams and quizzes
Write reading responses