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St. Joseph's
College is a member of the Long Island Consortium for Interconnected
Learning, or LICIL. This is a consortium of 10 colleges on Long
Island (including Brooklyn and Queens)
which are collectively working to improve the way in which quantitative
disciplines are taught on the college level. The project director is Prof.
Alan Tucker of the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
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St. Joseph's
College is proud to be a member of this consortium and has many faculty
members, on both campuses, actively involved in LICIL projects. Amongst the
projects being worked on by SJC faculty:
1) Generating a Sense of Wonder: a project to improve the mathematical
education of prospective elementary school teachers by nurturing their
personal senses of wonder.
2) Quantitative Modeling: a "model" for teaching quantitative
subjects in teams.
3) Development of a Unified Probability and Statistics Curriculum.
4) Math Learning
Center: a project to familiarize
prospective math teachers with some technical resources available today.
5) Teaching Statistical Methods to Future Elementary School Teachers: a
project to help the generally math-phobic members of this group to develop
the statistical skills needed for their senior thesis.
6) The creation of an interdisciplinary course involving the study of the
mathematical and biological aspects of scaling and strength --- Scaling in a
Physiological System.
7) The creation of an exportable template for an interdisciplinary project.
Mathematics and biology teaming up to investigate Swarm Intelligence.
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Generating a Sense of Wonder
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Click here to go to LICIL's home page.Long Island Consortium for Interconnected
Learning
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Powerpoint Presentations: In the spirit of the LICIL project, although not
directly related to it, the following Powerpoint presentations have been
developed. They are companion pieces to the Generating a Sense of Wonder
Mathematics: Hiding in Plain Sight
Art and Mathematics: Making Beautiful Music
Together
What is the Shape of the Universe?
Graph Theory: Two Applications
Proof, Wonderful Proofs!
How Did the Greeks Deduce the Size of
the Earth, Moon and Sun As Well As the Distances Between Them?
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