Information on subscribing to the electronic discussion group on developmental mathematics


As mathematics teaching changes across the world, faculty teaching developmental mathematics courses must rethink both what should be taught and how it should be taught. The purpose of this electronic discussion group is to encourage these faculty members to share their questions and attempts at solutions. This is the place to share your questions, problems, and successes in teaching developmental mathematics. For the purposes of this list, a developmental mathematics course is any mathematics course taught on the college level (2-year, 4-year, or university) below the level of "college algebra" or "precalculus": arithmetic, pre-algebra, beginning or intermediate algebra, and (high-school level) geometry.

Since the purpose is constructive, any questions about how to deal with a specific problem, mathematical, pedagogical, or social, in these courses are in order, as well as any suggestions for how to work on those problems. However, complaints about the quality of today's students or school teachers, and put-downs of other contributors to the list, as well as topics not related to developmental mathematics, are not in order.

To subscribe, send a message (with no subject) to listserv@enterprise.maa.org. The body of the message should consist of the single line:

SUBSCRIBE developmental-math-list <first name> <Last Name>
(replacing <firstname> with your first name, etc.).


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