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Transforming Math Education for Future Innovators
Join our mission to bridge the math proficiency gap for engineering and STEM majors at UNLV and CSN. Our innovative program offers engaging educational resources to help students master essential concepts, reduce preparation time, and succeed in their academic and professional journeys.
Improving STEM Student Fundamental Math Skills with Tailored Activity-Based Instruction
This project is supported by the NSF (National Science Foundation) HSI (Hispanic Serving Institutions) Program and it aims to improve STEM education by enhancing math preparation for undergraduate students at the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) and the College of Southern Nevada (CSN). Faculty are developing engaging math exercises to address common student misunderstandings, with the goal of reducing time to graduation, lowering degree costs, and decreasing STEM attrition, particularly for underrepresented groups. The project includes research on the effectiveness of these exercises, which will be made publicly available and shared widely within Nevada and across the nation.
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
UNLV is a public, urban research institution that holds the nation’s highest recognition for both research and community engagement from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching – R1, the gold standard for research institutions. These distinctions underscore UNLV’s vision to become one of the nation’s premier public universities for research, education, and community impact.
College of Southern Nevada
Since 1971, the College of Southern Nevada has grown to become a leading education institution being the 5th largest college of its type in the country. CSN being a single college, multi-campus community college with 4 main campuses in Nevada, Cheyenne, Charleston, Henderson, and Mesquite as well multiple sites and centers across the Las Vegas valley. At CSN, we put our students first and encourage everyone to become a better version of themselves.
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under the awards #2225226.
Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
Team
The senior personnel of the grant are organized in five teams described below. The Leadership, Game Design and Canvas Design Teams are interdisciplinary teams that have expertise in game design, mathematics, engineering, educational pedagogy and learning science.
Clusters
Cluster 1 - Basic Arithmetic Operations
Order of operations, exponents, radicals and factoring.
Cluster 2 - Intro to Functions
Square root function, inverse function and others.
Coming soon.
Cluster 3 - Functions
Linear and Quadratic functions.
Cluster 4 - Exponential and Logarithmic Functions
Coming soon.
Cluster 5 - Equations
System of linear equations.
Coming soon.
Meet our Games and Exercises
Las Vegas, Nevada
Publications
Electrical and Computer Engineering Canvas Applications to Improve Fundamental Math Skills in Pre-Calculus Math
Neda, M., & Batista, J. R., & Fonseca Cacho, J., & Vongkulluksn, V. W., & Yang, M. (2024, June), Board 250
2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Portland, Oregon. 10.18260/1-2--46822
Improving Fundamental Mathematics Skills in Pre-Calculus Math Using Placed -Based Engineering Canvas Applications
Neda, M., & Morris, M. L., & Pusko, M. P., & Vongkulluksn, V. W., & Lee, J., & Batista, J. R. (2024, June), Board 305
2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Portland, Oregon. 10.18260/1-2--46883
Improving STEM Student Fundamental Math Skills with Tailored Game-Based Instruction
Neda, M., & Rincon, B., & Pandey, A., & Mora Bornholdt, C., & Vongkulluksn, V. W., & Salako, R., & Howard, J. W., & Sahl, D. (2024, June), Board 307
2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Portland, Oregon. 10.18260/1-2--46885
Enhancing Fundamental Math Skills of STEM Students Through Math Games Instruction
Neda, M., & Rincon, B., & Sahl, D., & Pandey, A., & Mora Bornholdt, C., & Howard, J. W., & Salako, R., & Vongkulluksn, V. W. (2024, April),
2024 ASEE PSW Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada. 10.18260/1-2--46036
Outreach
Monika Neda had the first workshop with the UNLV Noyce Scholars in August 2024 where the game and engineering applications for Cluster 1 were presented for potential use in the classroom by the Scholars after graduation.
The Outreach team together with CSN colleagues, Alok Pandey and Claudia Mora-Bornholdt, organized a workshop with high school teachers at UNLV campus on Oct. 19 to disseminate the math games and engineering applications.
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