CTY Instructor's "Lab Manual"

For Applications of Contemporary Mathematics (ACOM)

Because the ACOM course was entirely new, instructors and TAs this summer did not know in advance that it would be necessary to supplement the textbook with a great deal of outside material on a variety of topics: some related to the textbook, some entirely unrelated, with varying difficulty levels to accomodate students' math backgrounds. Once these requirements became clear, the instructors had to do a great deal of on-the-fly course planning, an exhausting undertaking. So that next summer's ACOM staff will not have to develop so much course material during the summer session, several of this year's staff are collecting and organizing the material they developed. This will be compiled into a "lab manual" from which future ACOM instructors will be able to select a wide range of already-prepared lessons.

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Ari Rapkin

Last modified: Thu Oct 17 20:56:22 EDT 1996